3. The Sympathetic Nervous System in Essential Hypertension: Pathophysiological Significance

Internal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 151-153

  Takishita, Shuichi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Defense reaction; Stress; Sympatho renal interaction

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; DOG; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; REVIEW; SALT INTAKE; STRESS; SYMPATHECTOMY;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; DOGS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOREPINEPHRINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; STRESS; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0035260107     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.151     Document Type: Article

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