title: Superficial thermal gradients during mild body cooling and its relationship to forearm blood flow.
abstract: Forearm and fingertip temperature gradients were related to simultaneously measured forearm blood flow in eleven adult subjects at rest and during a mild cold stimulus. The change in temperature gradients were converted into a percentage change of the potential capacity for heat exchange and this was found to correlate well (r = 0.73: P < 0.001) with the absolute reduction in forearm blood flow.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thangam
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaz
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Kurpad
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Shetty
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003080:Cold Temperature; D005385:Fingers; D005542:Forearm / Q000098:blood supply*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D012881:Skin Temperature