Sympathetic vascular transduction is augmented in young normotensive blacks

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 651-656

  Ray, Chester A ^a,b   Monahan, Kevin D ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Blood flow; Hypertension; Racial differences; Stress reactivity; Vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEGRO; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0036092938     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00788.2001     Document Type: Article

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