Effects of microgravity elicited by parabolic flight on abdominal aortic pressure and heart rate in rats

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1893-1899

  Waki, Hidefumi ^a   Shimizu, Tsuyoshi ^a   Katahira, Kiyoaki ^a   Nagayama, Tadanori ^a   Yamasaki, Masao ^a   Katsuda, Shin Ichiro ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic nerve activity; Arterial pressure; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA NERVE; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPACE FLIGHT; TELEMETRY; AIRCRAFT; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DENERVATION; DRUG EFFECT; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; HEART RATE; INNERVATION; MALE; MANNED; PARABOLIC FLIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT DURATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; URETHAN;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; PARABOLIC FLIGHT; SHORT DURATION;

AIRCRAFT; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DENERVATION; HEART RATE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TELEMETRY; URETHANE; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 0036892692     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01064.2001     Document Type: Article

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