Influence of age on respiratory modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity, blood pressure and baroreflex function in humans

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1039-1051

  Shantsila, Alena ^a   Mcintyre, David B ^a   Lip, Gregory Y H ^a   Fadel, Paul J ^b   Paton, Julian F R ^c   Pickering, Anthony E ^c   Fisher, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; BREATHING; BREATHING PATTERN; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BREATHING MUSCLE; HEART RATE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGING; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940593395     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/EP085071     Document Type: Article

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