Local Heating as a Predilatation Method for Measurement of Vasoconstrictor Responses with Laser-Doppler Flowmetry

Microcirculation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 214-220

  Henricson, Joakim ^a   Tesselaar, Erik ^a   Baiat, Yashma ^a   Nilsson, Gert ^a   Sjöberg, Folke ^a,b  

^a Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine ^*  (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adrenoceptors; Iontophoresis; Laser Doppler; Local heating; Vasoconstriction

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; VASOCONSTRICTION;

HEATING; HUMANS; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHENYLEPHRINE; SKIN; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATION;

EID: 79953001863     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: 15498719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2010.00079.x     Document Type: Article

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