Baroreceptor reflex sensitivity estimated by the sequence technique is reliable in rats

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Stauss, Harald M ^a   Moffitt, Julia A ^b   Chapleau, Mark W ^c   Abboud, Francois M ^c   Johnson, Alan Kim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Hospital for Special Surgery   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BETA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; PROPRANOLOL;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART RATE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NITROPRUSSIDE; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PHENYLEPHRINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRESSORECEPTORS; PROPRANOLOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPATHOMIMETICS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 33745684325     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00228.2006     Document Type: Letter

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