Augmented single-unit muscle sympathetic nerve activity in heart failure with chronic atrial fibrillation

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 590, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 509-518

  Ikeda, Tatsunori ^a   Murai, Hisayoshi ^a   Kaneko, Shuichi ^a   Usui, Soichiro ^a   Kobayashi, Daisuke ^a   Nakano, Manabu ^a   Ikeda, Keiko ^a   Takashima, Shin ichiro ^a   Kato, Takeshi ^a   Okajima, Masaki ^a   Furusho, Hiroshi ^a   Takamura, Masayuki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERONEAL NERVE; RADIAL ARTERY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84856364756     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.223842     Document Type: Article

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