Fractal properties of human muscle sympathetic nerve activity

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 286, Issue 3 55-3, 2004, Pages

  Fadel, Paul J ^b   Orer, Hakan S ^a,c   Barman, Susan M ^a   Vongpatanasin, Wanpen ^b   Victor, Ronald G ^b   Gebber, Gerard L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Allan factor; Dispersional analysis; Fano factor; Heart rate variability; Long range correlations; Time scale invariance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 1342283072     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00577.2003     Document Type: Article

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