Parasympathetic neural activity accounts for the lowering of exercise heart rate at high altitude

Circulation

Volumn 104, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 1785-1791

  Boushel, Robert ^a,c   Calbet, Jose Antonio L ^a   Rådegran, Goran ^a   Sondergaard, Hans ^a   Wagner, Peter D ^b   Saltin, Bengt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac output; Exercise; Heart rate; Hypoxia; Nervous system, autonomic

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035834152     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hc4001.097040     Document Type: Article

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