Regulation of sympathetic nerve activity during the cold pressor test in normotensive pregnant and nonpregnant women

Hypertension

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 858-864

  Usselman, Charlotte W ^a,b   Wakefield, Paige K ^a,b   Skow, Rachel J ^a,b   Stickland, Michael K ^c   Chari, Radha S ^a   Julian, Colleen G ^d   Steinback, Craig D ^a,b   Davenport, Margie H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

blood pressure; cold pressor test; neurovascular transduction; pregnancy; sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD PRESSOR TEST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COLD; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; INNERVATION; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; BLOOD PRESSURE; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MUSCLES; PREGNANCY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 84941198614     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.05964     Document Type: Article

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