Do vestibular otolith organs participate in human orthostatic blood pressure control?

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 77-83

  Watenpaugh, Donald E ^a,b   Cothron, Adriena V ^a   Wasmund, Stephen L ^a   Wasmund, Wendy L ^a   Carter III, Robert ^a   Muenter, Nicolette K ^a   Smith, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b Naval Submarine Base New London   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity; Head up tilt; Heart rate; Hemodynamics; Muscle sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD TILTING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; MALE; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; STIMULATION; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TIME; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0037201179     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(02)00142-X     Document Type: Article

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