Increased blood pressure induces a diameter response of retinal arterioles that increases with decreasing arteriolar diameter

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 328-331

  Jeppesen, Peter ^a   Sanye Hajari, Javad ^a   Bek, Toke ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYZER; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE; MICROCIRCULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL ARTERY; VASODILATION;

EID: 33846919682     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0360     Document Type: Article

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