Different responses of cerebral vessels to -30°head-down tilt in humans

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 674-680

  Hu, Zhihong ^a   Zhao, Guoxuan ^a   Xiao, Zhijun ^a   Chen, Xuemei ^a   Zhong, Chongfa ^a   Yang, Jingshen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SPACE MEDICO ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Color Doppler echogram; Head down tilt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD TILTING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE CONGESTION; SUPINE POSITION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FLUID SHIFTS; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HEADACHE; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; RHINITIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUPINE POSITION; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 0032969078     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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