The impact of menstrual phase on brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation during handgrip exercise in healthy premenopausal women

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 291-302

  D'Urzo, Katrina A ^a   King, Trevor J ^a   Williams, Jennifer S ^a   Silvester, Morgan D ^a   Pyke, Kyra E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

endothelial function; estrogen; shear rate

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FLOW-MEDIATED DILATION TEST; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMENOPAUSE; SHEAR RATE; SHEAR STRESS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; HAND STRENGTH; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; STRESS, MECHANICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85037648926     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/EP086311     Document Type: Article

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