Marked exacerbation of orthostatic intolerance after long-vs.-short-duration spaceflight in veteran astronauts

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 865-873

  Meck, Janice V ^a   Reyes, Carlos J ^b   Perez, Sondra A ^b   Goldberger, Ary L ^c   Ziegler, Michael G ^d  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Long duration spaceflight; Microgravity; Plasma volume; Presyncope; Tilt testing

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMONAUT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILE FORCE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PLASMA VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST;

EID: 0035190571     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-200111000-00003     Document Type: Article

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