Effect of acute ozone induced airway inflammation on human sympathetic nerve traffic: A randomized, placebo controlled, crossover study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Tank, Jens ^a   Biller, Heike ^b   Heusser, Karsten ^a   Holz, Olaf ^b   Diedrich, André ^c,d   Framke, Theodor ^a   Koch, Armin ^a   Grosshennig, Anika ^a   Koch, Wolfgang ^b   Krug, Norbert ^b   Jordan, Jens ^a   Hohlfeld, Jens M ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR TOXICOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN; OZONE; PLACEBO;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ADULT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERPNEA; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; REST; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VOLUNTEER; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CELL COUNT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EXPOSURE; HEMODYNAMICS; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPUTUM;

ADULT; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CELL COUNT; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; OZONE; PLACEBOS; PNEUMONIA; SPUTUM; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954469067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018737     Document Type: Article

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