Skeletal muscle vasodilatation during maximal exercise in health and disease

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 590, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 6285-6296

  Calbet, Jose A L ^a   Lundby, Carsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDURANCE TRAINING; FLOW RATE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE PERFUSION; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EXERCISE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 84871091675     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.241190     Document Type: Review

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