The effects of face cooling on the prolactin response and subjective comfort during moderate passive heating in humans

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1007-1014

  Mündel, Toby ^a   Hooper, Paula L ^a   Bunn, Sabrina J ^a   Jones, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; FACE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEAT SENSATION; HEATING; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; MALE; PERCEPTION; SAUNA; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEATING; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 33750626365     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2006.034629     Document Type: Article

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