Alteration of skin laser-Doppler flux response to local cooling in gestational hypertension

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 183-190

  Cankar, Ksenija ^a   Potocnik, Nejka ^a   Strucl, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cold; Gestational hypertension; Heart rate variability; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY; PROVOCATION TEST; STUDENT T TEST; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD FLOW; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HEART RATE; LUTEAL PHASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; SKIN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LUTEAL PHASE; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN;

EID: 84755161162     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-009-0050-1     Document Type: Article

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