Effect of Regular Physical Training on Cutaneous Microvascular Reactivity

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 606-612

  Lenasi, Helena ^a   Strucl, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Endothelial function; Endurance; Glabrous skin; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Microcirculation; Nonglabrous skin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; ENDOTHELIUM; FINGER; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TRAINING; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADULT; BLOOD VESSELS; EXERCISE; FINGERS; HAND; HUMANS; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NITROPRUSSIDE; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; SKIN; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 1842505577     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000121948.86377.51     Document Type: Article

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