Local heating of human skin causes hyperemia without mediation by muscarinic cholinergic receptors or prostanoids

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1781-1786

  Golay, Sandrine ^a   Haeberli, Christian ^a   Delachaux, Anne ^a   Liaudet, Lucas ^b   Kucera, Paul ^a   Waeber, Bernard ^a   Feihl, François ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Laser Doppler flowmetry; Prostaglandins; Receptors; Regional blood flow; Skin blood supply; Skin temperature; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PROSTANOID; PROSTANOID RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FOREARM; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THERMAL STIMULATION; VASODILATATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ASPIRIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE INHIBITORS; FOREARM; GLYCOPYRROLATE; HEAT; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; PROSTAGLANDINS; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 7044269338     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00814.2003     Document Type: Article

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