Aging is not accompanied by sympathetic hyperresponsiveness to air-jet stress

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 271, Issue 2 40-2, 1996, Pages

  Stauss, Harald M ^b   Morgan, Donald A ^b   Anderson, Karl E ^b   Massett, Michael P ^b   Kregel, Kevin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

autonomic nervous system; Fischer 344 rats; power spectrum analysis; renal blood flow; renal sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 33750730309     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1996.271.2.h768     Document Type: Article

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