Hemodynamic responses to heat stress in the resting and exercising human leg: Insight into the effect of temperature on skeletal muscle blood flow

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 300, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Pearson, James ^a   Low, David A ^a   Stöhr, Eric ^a   Kalsi, Kameljit ^a   Ali, Leena ^b   Barker, Horace ^b   González Alonso, José ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EALING HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATP; Hyperthermia; Vasodilatation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DEEP FEMORAL ARTERY; EXERCISE; HEART OUTPUT; HEAT STRESS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE PERFUSION; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REST; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR CONDUCTANCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VASODILATATION; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EPINEPHRINE; EXERCISE; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REST; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATION; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954457929     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00662.2010     Document Type: Article

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