Cutaneous warm and cool sensation thresholds and the inter-threshold zone in Malaysian and Japanese males

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 70-76

  Lee, Joo Young ^a   Saat, Mohamed ^b   Chou, Chinmei ^c   Hashiguchi, Nobuko ^d   Wijayanto, Titis ^a   Wakabayashi, Hitoshi ^a   Tochihara, Yutaka ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^c INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cutaneous thermal sensation threshold; Ethnic difference; Heat acclimatization; Inter threshold sensory zone; Temperature sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE SENSATION; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FOOT; FOREHEAD; HAND; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALAYSIA; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; REST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TROPIC CLIMATE; WARMING;

EID: 77649336591     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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