Relationship between multiple stimuli and skin blood flow

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Petrofsky, Jerrold S ^a   Al Malty, Abdul Majeed ^a   Prowse, Michelle ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Electrical stimulation; Skin blood flow; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BODY MASS; COLD EXPOSURE; COOLING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REST; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 50249106460     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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