Impaired microvascular response to cholinergic stimuli in primary Sjogren's syndrome

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 48-53

  Kovács, László ^a   Török, Tamás ^a   Bari, Ferenc ^b   Kéri, Zsuzsanna ^a   Kovács, Attila ^a   Makula, Éva ^a   Pokorny, Gyula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MUSCARINIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY SKIN; EXOCRINE GLAND; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; AGED; CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; SKIN; VASODILATION;

EID: 0034025087     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.59.1.48     Document Type: Article

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