Cold face test: Adrenergic phase

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 211-216

  Khurana, Ramesh K ^a  

^a UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenergic phase; Atropine; Baroreflex failure; Pure autonomic failure

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE; PILOCARPINE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; ANHIDROSIS; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BRADYCARDIA; BRADYKINESIA; CHEMODECTOMA; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; DYSMETRIA; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HEART RATE; HEAT INTOLERANCE; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARESIS; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PUPIL REFLEX; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SPASTICITY; SPEECH DISORDER; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; TREMOR; URINARY URGENCY; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; COLD; FACE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; REACTION TIME; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 34548387100     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-007-0422-3     Document Type: Article

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