Pick your Poiseuille: Normalizing the shear stimulus in studies of flow-mediated dilation

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1357-1359

  Parker, Beth A ^a   Trehearn, Tamra L ^b   Meendering, Jessica R ^b  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DILATATION; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR RATE; SHORT SURVEY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPLIANCE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; KINETICS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASODILATION;

EID: 70350093416     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.91302.2009     Document Type: Short Survey

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