Effects of muscle contraction on skeletal muscle blood flow: When is there a muscle pump?

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1027-1035

  Laughlin, M Harold ^a,b   Schrage, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial Pressure; Exercise; Venous Pressure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXERCISE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VENOUS PRESSURE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERTION; HINDLIMB; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0033051843     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199907000-00016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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