Input-output relationships of a somatosympathetic reflex in human spinal injury

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 213-220

  Brown, Rachael ^a   Burton, Alexander ^a   MacEfield, Vaughan G ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cutaneous blood flow; Electrical stimulation; Spinal cord injury; Spinal reflex

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FINGER; HEART RATE; HUMAN; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RADIAL ARTERY; SPINE INJURY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWEAT; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TOE; TONOMETRY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 68849116042     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-009-0010-9     Document Type: Article

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