Prolonged Low Flow Reduces Reactive Hyperemia and Augments Low Flow Mediated Constriction in the Brachial Artery Independent of the Menstrual Cycle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Rakobowchuk, Mark ^a   Parsloe, Emily R ^b   Gibbins, Sarah E ^c   Harris, Emma ^c   Birch, Karen M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; REPERFUSION INJURY; SHEAR STRESS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ADULT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPERFUSION INJURY; VASOCONSTRICTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873507666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055385     Document Type: Article

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