Vascular adaptation to exercise in humans: Role of hemodynamic stimuli

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 495-528

  Green, Daniel J ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Hopman, Maria T E ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Padilla, Jaume ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Laughlin, M Harold ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Thijssen, Dick H J ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d University of Missouri   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; EXERCISE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LUMINAL SHEAR STRESS; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; RISK REDUCTION; SHEAR STRESS; TANGENTIAL WALL STRESS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION; WALL STRESS; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EXERCISE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 85011340658     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: 15221210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00014.2016     Document Type: Article

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