Role of sensory nerves in the rapid cutaneous vasodilator response to local heating in young and older endurance-trained and untrained men

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-170

  Tew, Garry A ^a   Klonizakis, Markos ^a   Moss, James ^a   Ruddock, Alan D ^a   Saxton, John M ^b   Hodges, Gary J ^c  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDURANCE TRAINING; FITNESS; GROUPS BY AGE; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NERVE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; VASODILATATION;

EID: 78751556738     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2010.055434     Document Type: Article

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