The sympathetic nervous system's role in regulating blood pressure variability: Understanding how SNA controls vascular tone is an important step in determining the pathogenesis of hypertension

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 17-24

  Malpas, Simon C ^a   Leonard, Bridget L ^a   Guild, Sarah Jane ^a   Ringwood, John V ^a   Navakatikyan, Michael ^a   Austin, Paul C ^a   Head, Geoffrey A ^a,b   Burgess, Don E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PATHOGENESIS; PRESSORECEPTOR; SINUS NODE MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0035075029     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.917720     Document Type: Article

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