Information domain approach to the investigation of cardio-vascular, cardio-pulmonary, and vasculo-pulmonary causal couplings

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 2 NOV, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Faes, Luca ^a   Nollo, Giandomenico ^a   Porta, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arterial pressure variability; Baroreflex; Causality; Conditional entropy; Head up tilt; Heart rate variability; Paced breathing; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866294458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2011.00080     Document Type: Article

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