Sympathetic nonadrenergic transmission contributes to autonomic dysreflexia in spinal cord-injured individuals

Hypertension

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 636-643

  Groothuis, Jan T ^a,b   Rongen, Gerard A ^b   Deinum, Jaap ^b   Pickkers, Peter ^b   Danser, A H Jan ^c   Geurts, Alexander C H ^a,b   Smits, Paul ^b   Hopman, Maria T E ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Pharmacology Toxicology ^*  (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autonomic dysreflexia; Leg vascular resistance; Neurotransmitters; Spinal cord injury; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; NICARDIPINE; NORADRENALIN; PHENTOLAMINE; RENIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOTENSIN II; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICARDIPINE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHENTOLAMINE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RENIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77149165749     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.147330     Document Type: Article

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