Central serotoninergic response to orthostatic challenge in patients with neurocardiogenic syncope

Europace

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 306-311

  Guzman, Juan Camilo ^a,b   Garcia, Ronald Gerardo ^a   Dillenburg, Rejane ^b   Sieger, Federico Silva ^a   Lopez Jaramillo, Patricio ^a   Morillo, Carlos A ^a,b  

^a FUNDACIÓN CARDIOVASCULAR DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Central nervous system; Cortisol; Orthostatic stress; Prolactin; Serotonin; Vasovagal syncope

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROCORTISONE; ISOPRENALINE; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEART FUNCTION; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROVOCATION TEST; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; STANDING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPINE POSITION; SYNCOPE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PROLACTIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 33745196748     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euj053     Document Type: Article

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