Human vagal baroreflex mechanisms in space

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 588, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1129-1138

  Eckberg, Dwain L ^a   Halliwill, John R ^b   Beightol, Larry A ^a   Brown, Troy E ^c   Taylor, J Andrew ^d   Goble, Ross ^e  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment   (United States)

^d and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^e Newport News   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CAROTID SINUS PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMONAUT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SPACE FLIGHT; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED STATES; VAGUS REFLEX; ASTRONOMY; HEART FUNCTION; SPACE;

ASTRONAUTS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MALE; PRESSORECEPTORS; SPACE FLIGHT; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VAGUS NERVE; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 77952923717     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.186650     Document Type: Article

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