2007, Piran, Slovenia

Gravitational Physiology
Since exercise sweating rate is potentiated at identical core and skin temperatures, a
non-thermal factor is responsible for this potentiation, and the most likely candidate
would appear to be the metaboreflex.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was funded, in part, by the Ministries of Defence, and of Science (Republic
of Slovenia).
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