Enhancing circulation to lower limbs during head-down tilt by warming upper body and thighs

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 7 SEC. 2, 2004, Pages 596-602

  Koscheyev, Victor S ^a   Leon, Gloria R ^a   Coca, Aitor ^a   List, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood circulation; Countermeasures; Lower extremities; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CIRCULATION; CLOTHING; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEAT EXCHANGE; HEATING; HEMOPERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPACE FLIGHT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION; THIGH; WARMING;

NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SCIENCES TECHNOLOGIES; NON-NASA CENTER;

ADULT; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOOT; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HEAT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 3042751056     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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