Local warming of skin induces vasodilation by unknown mechanisms. To test whether nitric
oxide (NO) is involved, we examined effects of NO synthase (NOS) inhibition with N G-nitro-l …

Measurement of resting blood flow to the skin and other organs is an important indicator of
health and disease and a way to assess the reaction to various stimuli and pharmaceutical …

Various aspects of skin blood flow (SkBF) in human beings have been studied
experimentally for more than seven decades. While reasonably complete phenomenological …

Animal studies suggest that α-adrenergic-mediated vasoconstriction is compromised during
whole-body heating. The purpose of this study was to identify whether whole-body heating …

To test whether heat-sensitive receptors participate in the cutaneous vascular responses to
direct heating, we monitored skin blood flow (SkBF; laser Doppler flowmetry) where the …

An overview of the physiology of human thermoregulation is presented, including a
discussion of the principle of heat balance and the various heat exchange pathways …

To assess the influence of initial diameter on the gender difference in flow-dependent
dilatation (FDD) of the conduit artery, we measured radial artery internal diameter …

The purpose of this project was to test the hypothesis that, independent of neural control,
glabrous and nonglabrous cutaneous vasculature is capable of autoregulating blood flow. In …

Problems due to heat stress may occur whenever the rate of heat production or heat gain
from the environment is sufficiently large in relation to the body's ability to dissipate heat …

Analysis of heat transfer in the human involves different scales ranging from countercurrent
heat transfer between small arteries and veins to the whole-body, which is the principal …