Sleep apnoea and hypertension: Role of chemoreflexes in humans

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-50

  Smith, Michael L ^a   Pacchia, Christina F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CAROTID BODY; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 33846221043     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2006.033753     Document Type: Review

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