Lack of involvement of the autonomic nervous system in early ventilatory and pulmonary vascular acclimatization to hypoxia in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 579, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 215-225

  Liu, Chun ^a   Smith, Thomas G ^a   Balanos, George M ^b   Brooks, Jerome ^a   Crosby, Alexi ^c   Herigstad, Mari ^a   Dorrington, Keith L ^a   Robbins, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRIMETAPHAN; GANGLION BLOCKING AGENT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GANGLION BLOCK; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; DRUG HALF LIFE; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; LUNG VENTILATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANOXIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GANGLIONIC BLOCKERS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TRIMETHAPHAN;

EID: 33846968136     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.118190     Document Type: Article

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