Autonomic regulation during orthostatic stress in highlanders: Comparison with sea-level residents

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 427-435

  Gulli, Giosué ^a,g   Claydon, Victoria E ^a,b   Slessarev, Marat ^c,h   Zenebe, Guta ^d   Gebremedhin, Amha ^d   Rivera Ch, Maria ^e   Appenzeller, Otto ^f   Hainsworth, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^e UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^f New Mexico Health Enhancement and Marathon Clinics (NMHEMC) Research Foundation   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^h TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD TILTING; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC STRESS; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RR INTERVAL; SEA LEVEL; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847706997     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2006.035519     Document Type: Article

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