Dilatation of subcutaneous perforating blood vessels associated with capsaicin-induced cutaneous axon reflex: demonstration with subtraction thermography

Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System

Volumn 75, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 87-92

  Takahashi, Yuzuru ^a   Murata, Atsushi ^a   Nakajima, Yoshio ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axon reflex; Capillary; Flare; Perforating vessel; Thermography; Wheal

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFLEX; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; THERMOGRAPHY; URTICARIA; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; AXONS; CAPSAICIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX; SKIN; THERMOGRAPHY; VASODILATION;

EID: 0032990649     PISSN: 01651838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1838(98)00172-6     Document Type: Article

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