Autonomic nervous function during whole-body cold exposure before and after cold acclimation

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 875-882

  Mäkinen, Tiina M ^a,b   Mäntysaari, Matti ^b   Pääkkönen, Tiina ^a   Jokelainen, Jari ^a,c   Palinkas, Lawrence A ^d   Hassi, Juhani ^a   Leppäluoto, Juhani ^a   Tahvanainen, Kari ^e   Rintamäki, Hannu ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH DEFENCE FORCES   (Finland)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Controlled breathing; Habituation; Heart rate variability; Isometric handgrip

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND GRIP; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SINUS NODE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; COLD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 51149085654     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2235.2008     Document Type: Article

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