Advances in sympathetic nerve recording in humans

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 FEB, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lambert, Elisabeth ^a,b   Hering, Dagmara ^a,c   Schlaich, Markus ^a,b   Lambert, Gavin ^a,b  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Microneurography; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866287070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00011     Document Type: Short Survey

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