Magnitude and time course of arterial vascular adaptations to inactivity in humans

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 65-71

  De Groot, Patricia C E ^a   Bleeker, Michiel W P ^a   Hopman, Maria T E ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conduit artery diameter; Deconditioning; Flow mediated dilation; Humans; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE;

AGING; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHLETE; BED REST; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM; ENDURANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHEAR RATE; SHEAR STRESS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VASODILATATION; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARTERIES; BED REST; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NETHERLANDS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; VASODILATION;

EID: 33747460263     PISSN: 00916331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/00003677-200604000-00005     Document Type: Review

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