Melatonin attenuates the vestibulosympathetic but not vestibulocollic reflexes in humans: Selective impairment of the utricles

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1697-1701

  Cook, Jonathan S ^b   Ray, Chester A ^a,b  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Otolith organs; Sympathetic; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; TIME; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MELATONIN; ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE; PLACEBO EFFECT; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 78651322715     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00698.2010     Document Type: Article

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