Impairment of thermoregulatory control of skin sympathetic nerve traffic in the elderly

Circulation

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 729-735

  Grassi, Guido ^b   Seravalle, Gino ^b   Turri, Carlo ^b   Bertinieri, Giovanni ^b   Dell'Oro, Raffaella ^b   Mancia, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aging; Nervous system; Nervous system, sympathetic; Reflex

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NERVE; SKIN SYMPATHETIC NERVE TRAFFIC; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THERMOREGULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERONEAL NERVE; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATION; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0042162993     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000081769.02847.A1     Document Type: Article

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