Effects of spaceflight on human calf hemodynamics

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1552-1558

  Watenpaugh, Donald E ^a,b   Buckey, Jay C ^a   Lane, Lynda D ^a   Gaffney, F Andrew ^a   Levine, Benjamin D ^a   Moore, Willie E ^a   Wright, Sheryl J ^a   Blomqvist, C Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Gravity; Leg; Vascular resistance; Venous compliance; Weightlessness

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICROGRAVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035106022     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.2001.90.4.1552     Document Type: Article

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