Electrical activation of the human vestibulo-sympathetic reflex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 251-261

  Voustianiouk, Andrei ^a   Kaufmann, Horacio ^a   Diedrich, André ^b   Raphan, Theodore ^c   Biaggioni, Italo ^b   MacDougall, Hamish ^a   Ogorodnikov, Dmitri ^a   Cohen, Bernard ^a,d  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d Box 1135 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Baroreflex; Blood pressure; Electrocardiogram; Muscle sympathetic nerve activity; Otolith organs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASTOID; NEUROGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOLITH; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULOSYMPATHETIC REFLEX;

ADULT; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 33646517054     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0266-9     Document Type: Article

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