Exercise training fails to modify arterial baroreflex sensitivity in ovariectomized female rats

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 211, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 339-345

  Minami, Naoyoshi ^a   Mori, Nobuyoshi ^a   Nagasaka, Makoto ^a   Ito, Osamu ^a   Ogawa, Mika ^a   Kurosawa, Hajime ^a   Kanazawa, Masayuki ^a   Kohzuki, Masahiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baroreflex sensitivity; Exercise; Female sex hormone

Indexed keywords

NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RATE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RAT; TREADMILL EXERCISE; UTERUS WEIGHT; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NITROPRUSSIDE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PHENYLEPHRINE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 34247122022     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.211.339     Document Type: Article

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