Reduced endothelial function in the skin in Southeast Asians compared to Caucasians

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Petrofsky, Jerrold Sott ^a   Alshammari, Faris ^a   Lee, Haneul ^a   Hamdan, Adel ^a   Yim, Jong Eun ^a   Shetye, Gauri ^a   Neupane, Sushma ^a   Somanaboina, Karunakar ^a   Pathak, Kunal ^a   Shenoy, Samruddha ^a   Dave, Bhargav ^a   Cho, Sungkwan ^a   Chen, Wei Ti ^a   Nevgi, Bhakti ^a   Moniz, Harold ^a   Alshaharani, Mastour ^a   Malthane, Swapnil ^a   Desai, Rajavi ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulation; Endothelial function; Heat; Thermal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CAUCASIAN; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855257381     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.882185     Document Type: Article

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