Impaired sympathetic skin response in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 207, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 243-248

  Bir, Levent Sinan ^a   Özkurt, Sibel ^a   Daloǧlu, Güner ^a   Kurt, Tülay ^b  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Dysautonomia; Electromyography; Sympathetic skin response

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSAUTONOMIA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEAT GLAND FUNCTION; SWEATING;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SKIN;

EID: 29144437919     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.207.243     Document Type: Article

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