Acute limb heating improves macro-and microvascular dilator function in the leg of aged humans

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 312, Issue 1, 2017, Pages H89-H97

  Romero, Steven A ^a   Gagnon, Daniel ^a   Adams, Amy N ^a   Cramer, Matthew N ^a   Kouda, Ken ^a   Crandall, Craig G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Blood flow; Flow mediated dilation; Reactive hyperemia; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY FLOW; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEART OUTPUT; HEATING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; LEG; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; AGE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; MICROVASCULATURE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THERMOTHERAPY; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LEG; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASODILATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85008411940     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00519.2016     Document Type: Article

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