Presyncopal cardiac contractility and autonomic activity in young healthy males

Physiological Research

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 817-826

  Grasser, E K ^a   Goswami, N ^a   Hinghofer Szalkay, H ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Institute of Adaptive and Spaceflight Physiology   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Hemodynamics; HUT; Impedance cardiography; LBNP; Sympathetic withdrawal; Total peripheral resistance

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DIZZINESS; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUPINE POSITION; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST; TIME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIZZINESS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77449083968     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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