Influence of sympathetic vascular regulation on heart-rate scaling structure: Spinal cord lesion as a model of progressively impaired autonomic control

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 240-243

  Castiglioni, Paolo ^a   Merati, Giampiero ^b   Veicsteinas, Arsenio ^b   Parati, Gianfranco ^c   Di Rienzo, Marco ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

DFA; Scaling exponent; Spinal lesion; Sympathetic tone

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT MONITORING;

IMPAIRED VASCULAR CONTROL; SCALING EXPONENTS; SPINAL LESION; SYMPATHETIC TONES;

CARDIOLOGY;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCALE UP; SITTING; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEART; INNERVATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 34247198422     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2006.046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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