Contribution of sympathetic activation to coronary vasodilatation during the cold pressor test in healthy men: Effect of ageing

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 591, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2937-2947

  Monahan, Kevin D ^a   Feehan, Robert P ^a   Sinoway, Lawrence I ^a   Gao, Zhaohui ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENTOLAMINE; PROPRANOLOL;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CORONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATION; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 84878463842     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.251298     Document Type: Article

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