Clonidine improves postprandial baroreflex control in familial dysautonomia

European Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 912-918

  Marthol, H ^a   Tutaj, M ^a   Brys, M ^b   Brown, C M ^c   Hecht, M J ^c   Berlin, D ^a   Axelrod, F B ^a   Hilz, Max J ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baroreflex; Clonidine; Familial dysautonomia; Parasympathetic; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR REFLEX; CHILD; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSAUTONOMIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RR INTERVAL; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CLONIDINE; DYSAUTONOMIA, FAMILIAL; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD;

EID: 0141816767     PISSN: 00142972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2362.2003.01242.x     Document Type: Article

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