Firing properties of single vasoconstrictor neurones in human subjects with high levels of muscle sympathetic activity

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 516, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 293-301

  Macefield, Vaughan G ^a,b   Wallin, B Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APNEA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INNERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VASOCONSTRICTION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; HEART BEAT; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN CELL; MICROELECTRODE; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERONEUS NERVE; SINGLE VASOCONSTRICTOR NEURON; SPIKE WAVE;

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EID: 0033119941     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.293aa.x     Document Type: Article

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