Aging effects of sympathetic reflex activities on skin nerves

Gerontology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 366-373

  Watanabe, Harue ^a   Shindo, Kazumasa ^a   Ida, Haruyasu ^a   Tanaka, Haruyuki ^a   Nagasaka, Takamura ^a   Shiozawa, Zenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging effect; Skin sympathetic nerve activity; Sympathetic flow response; Sympathetic reflex activities; Sympathetic skin response

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SKIN NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; REFLEX; SKIN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0344826527     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073764     Document Type: Article

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