Increased vasomotor sympathetic nerve activity and decreased plasma nitric oxide release after head-down bed rest in humans: Disappearance of correlation between vasoconstrictor and vasodilator

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-24

  Kamiya, Atsunori ^a   Iwase, Satoshi ^a   Michikami, Daisaku ^a   Fu, Qi ^a   Mano, Tadaaki ^a   Kitaichi, Kiyoyuki ^a   Takagi, Kenji ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bed rest; Microneurography; Muscle sympathetic nerve activity; Vascular resistance; Vasoconstrictor; Vasodilator

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED REST; BODY POSTURE; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NEUROGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; BED REST; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 0033957054     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00804-1     Document Type: Article

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