Sex differences in sympathetic neural-hemodynamic balance implications for human blood pressure regulation

Hypertension

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 571-576

  Hart, Emma C ^a   Charkoudian, Nisha ^b   Wallin, B Gunnar ^c   Curry, Timothy B ^a   Eisenach, John H ^a   Joyner, Michael J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood pressure regulation; Peripheral resistance; Sex; Sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART RATE; INNERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NOREPINEPHRINE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 61749089306     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.108.126391     Document Type: Article

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