Subclinical autonomic dysfunction in Spinobulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy disease)

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 737-740

  Rocchi, Camilla ^a   Greco, Viviana ^b   Urbani, Andrea ^b   di Giorgio, Alessandra ^a   Priori, Marina ^a   Massa, Roberto ^a   Bernardi, Giorgio ^a   Marfia, Girolama A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Androgen receptors; Autonomic dysfunction; Autonomic function tests; Kennedy disease; Plasma noradrenaline

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN; POLYGLUTAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KENNEDY DISEASE; MALE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BULBO-SPINAL ATROPHY, X-LINKED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN;

EID: 80054850792     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22159     Document Type: Article

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