Low-frequency sinusoidal galvanic stimulation of the left and right vestibular nerves reveals two peaks of modulation in muscle sympathetic nerve activity

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 213, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 507-514

  Hammam, Elie ^a   James, Cheree ^a   Dawood, Tye ^a   Macefield, Vaughan G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Human; Microneurography; MSNA; Sympathetic; Vestibular; Vestibulosympathetic reflexes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LOW FREQUENCY SINUSOIDAL GALVANIC VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; MALE; MASTOID; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMODULATION; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

ADULT; ARTERIES; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; VESTIBULAR NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053914176     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2800-2     Document Type: Article

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