Plasma neurotransmitters, blood pressure and heart rate during supine resting, orthostasis and moderate exercise in severely iii patients: A model of failing to cope with stress

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 129-136

  Lechin, Fuad ^a,c   Vanderdijs, Bertha ^a,b,c   Orozco, Beatriz ^a,c   Lechin, Alex E ^a,d   Baez, Scarlet ^a,b,c   Lechin, Marcel E ^a,e   Benaim, Mireya ^a,c   Acosta, Emilio ^a,c   Arocha, Luis ^a,c   Jimenez, Vladimir ^a,b   Leon, Gladys ^a,b   Garcia, Zulav ^a,b,c  

^a Sections of Psychopharmacology   (Venezuela)

^b Clinical Neurochemistry   (Venezuela)

^c Sections of Clinical Neurochemistry   (Venezuela)

^d Sections of Pulmonary   (Venezuela)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenaline; Blood pressure; Dopamine; Exercise; Failing to cope with stress; Heart rate; Noradrenaline; Orthostasis; Plasma neurotransmitters; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ATROPINE; DOPAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; REST; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DOPAMINE; EPINEPHRINE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NOREPINEPHRINE; SEROTONIN; STRESS; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 9344238753     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000289064     Document Type: Article

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