Methodological assessment of skin and limb blood flows in the human forearm during thermal and baroreceptor provocations

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 895-900

  Brothers, R Matthew ^a,b   Wingo, Jonathan E ^a,b,c   Hubing, Kimberly A ^a   Crandall, Craig G ^a,b  

^a PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Heat stress; Laser Doppler flowmetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEAT INJURY; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; TELEMETRY; THERMOREGULATION; VASCULARIZATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; BAROREFLEX; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; TELEMETRY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957160352     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00319.2010     Document Type: Article

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