Cardiac output and sympathetic vasoconstrictor responses during upright tilt to presyncope in healthy humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 590, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1839-1848

  Fu, Qi ^a,b   Verheyden, Bart ^c   Wieling, Wouter ^d   Levine, Benjamin D ^a,b  

^a PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEAT TO BEAT HEMODYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRESYNCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYMPATHETIC VASOCONSTRICTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TILTING; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; POSTURE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859719844     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.224998     Document Type: Article

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