Acetylcholine chloride as a potential source of variability in the study of cutaneous vascular function in man

Microvascular Research

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 190-197

  Sauvet, Fabien ^a   Mahé, Guillaume ^b,c   Chennaoui, Mounir ^a   Langrume, Christophe ^a   Vasseur, Mélanie ^b,c   Abraham, Pierre ^b,c   Leftheriotis, Georges ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE BIOMÉDICALE DES ARMÉES   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; METHACHOLINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TISSUE PERFUSION; VASODILATATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADULT; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 79960909039     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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