Cardiorespiratory coupling of sympathetic outflow in humans: A comparison of respiratory and cardiac modulation of sympathetic nerve activity to skin and muscle

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1327-1336

  Fatouleh, Rania ^a   Macefield, Vaughan G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MODULATION; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; PRESSORECEPTOR; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SKIN; SPIKE; STRAIN GAUGE TRANSDUCER; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 84882600600     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2013.072421     Document Type: Article

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