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Combined water bath and rocking tilt table stimulator to test autonomic function by a thermal and postural entrainment method

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  1. Research Institute of Military Medicine, Central Military Hospital, Box 50, SF-00301, Helsinki, Finland

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  2. Cardiorespiratory Research Unit, University of Turku, 20500, Turku 50, Finland

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Lindqvist, A. Combined water bath and rocking tilt table stimulator to test autonomic function by a thermal and postural entrainment method. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 27, 435–439 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02441438

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