Absence of short-term vestibular modulation of muscle sympathetic outflow, assessed by brief galvanic vestibular stimulation in awake human subjects

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-43

  Bolton, Philip S ^a,b   Wardman, Daniel L ^c   Macefield, Vaughan G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Cardiovascular; Orthostatic hypotension; Posture; Vestibulosympathetic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; GALVANIC VESTIBULAR TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MASTOID; MICROELECTRODE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; RECORDING; SITTING; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VESTIBULAR NERVOUS SYSTEM; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BLOOD VESSELS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION SICKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; REFLEX; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SWEAT GLANDS; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; VASOCONSTRICTION; VESTIBULE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 1642456468     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1631-1     Document Type: Article

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