... blood flow forearm vascular resistance plethysmography reproducibility 209Clinical Science (2000) 98, 209 210 (Printed in Great Britain) + C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Forearm plethysmography: does the right arm know what the left is doing? John R. PETRIE*, Colin PERRY, Stephen J. CLELAND, Lilian S...

... with normal haemoglobin (AA) genotype. Forearm blood flow (FBF) was measured by venous occlusion plethysmography and mean arterial pressure (MAP) by a Finapres device: forearm vascular resistance (FVR) was calculated as MAP/FBF. Cutaneous erythrocyte flux in forearm and hand was monitored by a laser Doppler...

... of atrial natriuretic factor, sodium nitroprusside and placebo. As a sympathetic stimulation test, the technique of the lower body negative pressure (–20 mmHg) was used. 2. Lower body negative pressure increased the forearm vascular resistance by +37 ± 8% during concomitant intra-arterial infusion...

... the percentage increases in forearm vascular resistance evoked by intra-arterial infusion of phenylephrine at graded doses during simultaneous intra-arterial infusion of saline or arginine vasopressin at two doses. Similarly, in another seven subjects, we examined the effects of intra-arterial infusions...