Glycerol-induced fluid shifts attenuate the vestibulosympathetic reflex in humans

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 300, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Dyckman, Damian J ^a   Sauder, Charity L ^a   Ray, Chester A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Muscle sympathetic nerve activity; Otolith organs

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANBERRY JUICE; DISEASE MARKER; DYNAMICS; FLUID SHIFT; GLYCEROL DEHYDRATION TEST; HEAD DOWN ROTATION; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INNER EAR; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MICRONEUROGRAPHY; NEUROGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULAR TEST; VESTIBULOSYMPATHETIC REFLEX;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; DEHYDRATION; FLUID SHIFTS; GLYCEROL; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; REFLEX; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; VASOCONSTRICTION; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 79954524099     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00767.2010     Document Type: Article

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