Nasal reflexes: Implications for exercise, breathing, and sex

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 147-153

  Baraniuk, James N ^a   Merck, Samantha J ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE; INHIBITORY GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; PLACEBO; SUMATRIPTAN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ASTHMA; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BREATHING PATTERN; BREATHING REFLEX; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DENTISTRY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOSE AIRFLOW; NOSE AIRWAY RESISTANCE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; NOSE REFLEX; OXYGENATION; PAIN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; REFLEX; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; RHINITIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX; VASOMOTOR RHINITIS; WATER IMMERSION;

HUMANS; NASAL MUCOSA; NASAL OBSTRUCTION; NOSE; REFLEX; RHINITIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 42149141803     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-008-0025-7     Document Type: Review

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