The local effects of systemic digoxin on the cutaneous microcirculation

European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 263-268

  Grossmann, M ^b   Jamieson, M J ^a   Kirch, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digoxin; Endothelium dependent vasodilation; Laser Doppler fluximetry

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DIGOXIN; ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED RELAXING FACTOR; NORADRENALIN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIZATION; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VASODILATATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIGOXIN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NOREPINEPHRINE; SKIN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0032933320     PISSN: 00316970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002280050627     Document Type: Article

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