The function of the autonomic nervous system during spaceflight

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 141-151

  Mandsager, Kyle Timothy ^a   Robertson, David ^a   Diedrich, André ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Baroreflex; Space flight; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; NORADRENALIN;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ASTRONOMY; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EXPERIMENT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; MICROGRAVITY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC STRESS; PLASMA VOLUME; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; REVIEW; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TACHYCARDIA; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VAGUS TONE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADVERSE EFFECTS; PHYSIOLOGY; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; SPACE FLIGHT; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS COUNTERMEASURES;

EID: 84930761684     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: 16191560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-015-0285-y     Document Type: Review

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