Increased sympathetic nerve activity correlates with neurovascular compression at the rostral ventrolateral medulla

Hypertension

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 988-995

  Sendeski, Mauricio M ^a   Consolim Colombo, Fernanda Marciano ^a   Leite, Claudia Costa ^a   Rubira, Marcelo Custódio ^a   Lessa, Patricia ^a   Krieger, Eduardo Moacyr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROVASCULAR SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; BLOOD VESSEL; COLD; HEMODYNAMICS; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE COMPRESSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; COLD; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33646122214     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000214403.07762.47     Document Type: Article

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