Sympathetic neural overactivity in healty humans after prolonged exposure to hypobaric hypoxia

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 546, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 921-929

  Hansen, Jim ^a   Sander, Mikael ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; HYPOVOLEMIA; HYPOXIA; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEA LEVEL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN; RESPIRATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0037321375     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.031765     Document Type: Review

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