Aging and the skin blood flow response to the unloading of baroreceptors during heat and cold stress

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1019-1025

  Scremin, Glaucio ^a   Kenney, W Larry ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutaneous blood flow; Hyperthermia; Lower body negative pressure; Vasoconstriction

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; THERMOREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSORECEPTORS; SKIN; STRESS;

EID: 1342283033     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00928.2003     Document Type: Article

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