Biological and analytical variation of the human sweating response: Implications for study design and analysis

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Kenefick, Robert W ^a   Cheuvront, Samuel N ^a   Elliott, Leonard D ^a   Ely, Brett R ^a   Sawka, Michael N ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise heat stress; Reproducibility; Sweating onset; Sweating rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWEATING;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RESEARCH DESIGN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SWEATING;

EID: 84855323076     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00456.2011     Document Type: Article

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