Age- and fitness-related alterations in vascular sympathetic control

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2049-2057

  Studinger, Péter ^a   Goldstein, Richard ^a   Taylor, J Andrew ^a  

^a and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; AEROBIC CAPACITY; AGE; AGING; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BODY MASS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; RESTING HEART RATE; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAVEFORM; WORKLOAD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGING; ARTERIES; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; SEX FACTORS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 65449182740     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.170134     Document Type: Article

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