Enhanced conduit artery flow-mediated dilation in elite atheletes: False or reality?

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1219-

  Montero, David ^a   Obert, Philippe ^a   Walther, Guillaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; BRACHIAL ARTERY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPORT; VASODILATATION;

BRACHIAL ARTERY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPORTS; VASODILATION;

EID: 84878935036     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31828d5ffc     Document Type: Letter

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