The impact of menstrual cycle phase on cardiac autonomic regulation

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 904-911

  McKinley, Paula S ^a,b   King, Arlene R ^a   Shapiro, Peter A ^a   Slavov, Iordan ^a   Fang, Yixin ^c   Chen, Ivy S ^a   Jamner, Larry D ^d   Sloan, Richard P ^a,b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic regulation; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Menstrual cycle; Normal volunteers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66949169897     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00811.x     Document Type: Article

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