Counterpoint: Increased mechanoreceptor/metaboreceptor stimulation explains the exaggerated exercise pressor reflex seen in heart failure [2]

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 498-

  Guazzi, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVERSION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM; EXERCISE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LETTER; MECHANORECEPTOR; METABOLISM; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE PERFUSION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 33846177592     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01247.2006     Document Type: Letter

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