Sex difference in peripheral arterial response to cold exposure

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1367-1372

  Sato, Fujio ^a   Matsushita, Shonosuke ^a   Hyodo, Kazuyuki ^b   Akishima, Shinji ^c   Imazuru, Tomohiro ^a   Tokunaga, Chiho ^a   Enomoto, Yoshiharu ^a   Kanemoto, Shinya ^a   Hiramatsu, Yuji ^a   Sakakibara, Yuzuru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^c Center of Chest Diseases and Severe Motor and Intellectual Disabilities   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterial response; Cold exposure; Synchrotron radiation micro angiography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LEG ARTERY; MALE; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX FACTORS; SYNCHROTRONS; VASODILATION;

EID: 48749109991     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.1367     Document Type: Article

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