Blunted increases in skin sympathetic nerve activity are related to attenuated reflex vasodilation in aged human skin

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1354-1362

  Stanhewicz, Anna E ^a   Greaney, Jody L ^a   Alexander, Lacy M ^a   Kenney, W Larry ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Heat stress; Skin blood flow; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFLEX; SKIN; THERMOREGULATION; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; REFLEX; SKIN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASODILATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85007486104     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00730.2016     Document Type: Article

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