Skin microvascular endothelial function as a biomarker in cardiovascular diseases?

Pharmacological Reports

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 803-810

  Hellmann, Marcin ^a,b   Roustit, Matthieu ^a,c,d   Cracowski, Jean Luc ^a,c,d  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c Domaine de la Merci   (France)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Endothelium; Laser Doppler; Laser speckle contrast imaging; Reactivity tests; Skin microcirculation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL FUNCTION; DERMAL MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MICROCIRCULATION; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL TONOMETRY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; VASODILATATION; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MICROVASCULATURE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SKIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MICROVESSELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SKIN; VASODILATION;

EID: 84940461848     PISSN: 22995684     EISSN: 22995684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharep.2015.05.008     Document Type: Review

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