Seasonal changes in thermal responses of urban residents to cold exposure

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 229-238

  Mäkinen, Tiina M ^a   Pääkkönen, Tiina ^a   Palinkas, Lawrence A ^b   Rintamäki, Hannu ^a,c   Leppäluoto, Juhani ^a   Hassi, Juhani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acclimatisation; Adaptation; Cold; Thermal sensation; Thermal sensitivity; Thermoregulation; Urban

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FINGER; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERCEPTION; RATING SCALE; RECORDING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN SENSATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOREGULATION; URBAN AREA; VASOCONSTRICTION; WINTER;

EID: 7444267360     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2004.09.006     Document Type: Article

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