Sex differences in forearm vasoconstrictor response to voluntary apnea

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 306, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Patel, Hardikkumar M ^a   Heffernan, Matthew J ^a   Ross, Amanda J ^a   Muller, Matthew D ^a  

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

Author keywords

Blood flow; Chemoreflex; Hypoxia; Sympathetic nervous system; Vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; APNEA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; BREATH HOLDING; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; COLD PRESSOR TEST; COLD SENSATION; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS VASCULAR CONDUCTANCE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FOREARM; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HAND PAIN; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MAXIMAL VOLUNTARY END EXPIRATORY APNEA; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASOCONSTRICTION; WAKEFULNESS; AGE; ARM; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HOMEOSTASIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; APNEA; ARM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEX FACTORS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 84893427284     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00746.2013     Document Type: Article

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