Pleasant odors attenuate the blood pressure increase during rhythmic handgrip in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 227-229

  Nagai, M ^a   Wada, M ^b   Usui, N ^a   Tanaka, A ^c   Hasebe, Y ^c  

^a YAMANASHI INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Exercise; Odorants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; EMOTIONS; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ODORS; REFLEX; SMELL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0034637037     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01278-7     Document Type: Article

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