Assessing the integrity of sympathetic pathways in spinal cord injury

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 134, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 61-68

  Brown, Rachael ^a,b   Engel, Stella ^a   Wallin, B Gunnar ^c   Elam, Mikael ^c   Macefield, Vaughan ^a  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Electrical stimulation; Skin blood flow; Spinal cord injury; Sweating; Sympathetic

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VALIDITY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 34250005503     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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