Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 4 , Pages 474-481 , April 2006

Rapid Vascular Adaptations to Training and Detraining in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury

  • Dick H. Thijssen, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Human Movement Sciences, the Netherlands
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  • Reinier Ellenkamp, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Human Movement Sciences, the Netherlands
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  • Paul Smits, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Netherlands
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  • Maria T. Hopman, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Human Movement Sciences, the Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Maria T. Hopman, MD, PhD, Dept of Physiology, RUNMC, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Reprints are not available from the author.

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 Supported by the Johan van Drongelen Foundation.No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(05)01383-3

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2005.11.005

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 4 , Pages 474-481 , April 2006

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