Head down tilt at -6° to -24° can neutralize the cardiovascular effects of LBNP at -15 or -35 mmHg

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 947-951

  Hinghofer Szalkay, Helmut ^a,b,d   Haditsch, Bernd ^a   Loder, Ingrid ^a   Pilz, Karl ^a   Rössler, Andreas ^b   Jezova, Daniela ^c  

^a Institute of Adaptive and Spaceflight Physiology   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^d MedUni Graz   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blood volume; Orthostatic stimulation; Posture; Simulated weightlessness

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; RENIN;

ADULT; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; DENSITY; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEART RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMA; STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALDOSTERONE; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; PLASMA VOLUME; POSTURE; RENIN;

EID: 7244224798     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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