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A Cerebral Hemisphere Influence on Cutaneous Vasomotor Reflexes in Humans

Overview
Journal J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
Publisher BMJ Publishing Group
Specialties Neurology
Neurosurgery
Psychiatry
Date 1990 Feb 1
PMID 2179473
Citations 3
Authors
A G Herbaut
J D Cole
E M Sedgwick
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Abstract

Cutaneous vasomotor reflexes (CVR), the transient waves of cutaneous vasoconstriction after stimuli, such as a cough, were recorded from the digits of patients with unilateral frontoparietal lesions using a laser doppler flowmeter. Vasoconstriction was 6-15 times greater on the fingers contralateral to the lesions, an effect which was independent of the temperature difference between limbs. CVRs may be tonically inhibited under normal circumstances by control from the cerebral hemispheres.

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