Sweat output measurement of the post-ganglion sudomotor response by Q-Sweat Test: a normative database of Chinese individuals

BMC Neuroscience

Wen-Neng Chang¹  Yao-Chung Chuang¹  Chih-Cheng Huang¹  Chiung-Chih Chang²  Nei-Wen Tsai¹  Chi-Ren Huang¹  Cheng-Hsien Lu¹  Ya-Ting Chang¹  Shu-Fang Chen² 

[1] Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;Department of Biological Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

关键词: Sweat output;    Q-Sweat;    Normative database;    Gender;    Chinese;    Body weight;    Body mass index;    Body height;    Age;   

Others  :  1170686
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2202-13-62

 received in 2012-01-13, accepted in 2012-05-11,  发布年份 2012

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Chen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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