Sympathetic activation in congestive heart failure: Reproducibility of neuroadrenergic markers

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1186-1191

  Grassi, Guido ^a,b,c   Bolla, Gianbattista ^b   Quarti Trevano, Fosca ^a   Arenare, Francesca ^a   Brambilla, Gianmaria ^a   Mancia, Giuseppe ^a,b,c  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Centro Interuniversitario di Fisiologia Clinica e Ipertensione   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Muscle sympathetic nerve activity; Muscle sympathetic nerve traffic; Plasma norepinephrine; Sympathetic activity

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROGRAPHY; PERONEUS NERVE; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROKE VOLUME; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 56749169194     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: 18790844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejheart.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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