To stand on one's own legs

Clinical Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 237-245

  Mathias, Christopher J ^a,b,c,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomic failure; Baroreceptors; Carotid sinus hypersensitivity; CPD; Hypotension; Orthostatic post prandial hypotension; Sympathetic activity; Syncope; Tachycardia; Vasovagal syncope

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALCOHOL; AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; FLUDROCORTISONE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NORADRENALIN; THREO 3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLSERINE;

ADAPTATION; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CAROTID SINUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GRAVITY; HEAD TILTING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; ORGAN PERFUSION; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRESSORECEPTOR; STANDING; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY POSTURE; LEG; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; LEG; POSTURE;

EID: 0035987860     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.2-3-237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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