Skeletal muscle vasodilatation during sympathoexcitation is not neurally mediated in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 525, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 253-262

  Reed, Ann S ^a   Tschakovsky, Michael E ^a   Minson, Christopher T ^a   Halliwill, John R ^a   Torp, Klaus D ^a   Nauss, Lee A ^a   Joyner, Michael J ^a,b  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROPRANOLOL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STELLATE GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PROTEIN SECRETION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0034657774     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.2000.t01-1-00253.x     Document Type: Article

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