Effects of gender on the autonomic modulation of the cardiovascular responses to lower body negative pressure

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 626-631

  Franke, Warren D ^a,b   Lee, Kichang ^b   Graff, Shannon R ^a   Flatau, Alison B ^b  

^a Dept of Hlth and Hum Performance ^*  (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreflex; Heart rate variability; Parasympathetic; Spectral analysis; Sympathetic

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEART RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPACE SIMULATION; STROKE VOLUME; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0034085175     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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