The autonomic nervous system of the human heart with special reference to its origin, course, and peripheral distribution

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 209, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 425-438

  Kawashima, Tomokazu ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac plexus; Gross anatomy; Human; Sympathetic cardiac nerves; Vagal cardiac branches

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CADAVER; CERVICAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL CARDIAC NERVE; FIRST THORACIC GANGLION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GANGLION; HEART INNERVATION; HEART NERVE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR CARDIAC NERVE; INFERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; MIDDLE CERVICAL GANGLION; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE PLEXUS; NEUROANATOMY; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STELLATE GANGLION; STEREOMICROSCOPY; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THORACIC CARDIAC NERVE; VERTEBRAL GANGLION;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CADAVER; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 20944443227     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-005-0462-1     Document Type: Article

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