Sustained hyperaemia stimulus is necessary to induce flow-mediated dilation of the human brachial artery

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 415-421

  Dyson, Kenneth S ^a   Argarwal, Nikhil ^a   Williams Bell, Michael ^a   Bhatti, Adil ^a   Denniss, Steven G ^a   Hughson, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dilation; Endothelium; Flow; Hyperemia; Vascular

Indexed keywords

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; FLOW MEDIATED DILATION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR RATE; SHEAR STRESS; VASODILATATION;

BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONSTRICTION; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ONTARIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; VASODILATION;

EID: 80053914603     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2011.01036.x     Document Type: Article

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