Effect of vitamin C and E in modulating peripheral vascular response to local cold stimulus in man at high altitude

Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-167

  Purkayastha, S S ^a   Sharma, R P ^a   Ilavazhagan, G ^a   Sridharan, K ^a   Ranganathan, S ^a   Selvamurthy, W ^a  

^a DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Cold injury; Cold induced vasodilatation (ClVD); High altitude; Peripheral blood flow

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID;

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; THERMOGENESIS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BODY WEIGHT; COLD; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; VASODILATION; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0033025407     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.49.159     Document Type: Article

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