Effect of age on adrenergic and vagal baroreflex sensitivity in normal subjects

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 637-642

  Huang, Chih Cheng ^a,b   Sandroni, Paola ^a   Sletten, David M ^a   Weigand, Stephen D ^a   Low, Phillip A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adrenergic; Age; Baroreflex sensitivity; Cardiovagal; Valsalva maneuver

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VAGUS NERVE; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VAGUS NERVE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 35448935662     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20853     Document Type: Article

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