Sympathoexcitation is attenuated during low level lower body negative pressure in subjects who develop pre-syncope

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 208-213

  Wasmund, Stephen L ^a   Smith, Michael L ^b   Takata, Theodore S ^a   Joglar, Jose A ^a   Li, Jian Ming ^a   Kowal, Robert C ^a   Page, Richard L ^a   Hamdan, Mohamed H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Baroreceptors; Sympathetic nerve activity; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAPHORESIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; NAUSEA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VERTIGO; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0042200651     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-003-0093-7     Document Type: Article

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