Autonomic innervation of the developing heart: Origins and function

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-46

  Hildreth, Victoria ^a   Anderson, Robert H ^a   Henderson, Deborah J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Cardiac ganglia; Cardiac plexus; Neural crest; Neurons; Neurotransmitters

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SOMATOSTATIN; SUBSTANCE P; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; GANGLION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART INNERVATION; HEART PLEXUS; HUMAN; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; CHICK EMBRYO; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; ORGANOGENESIS;

EID: 58249106921     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20695     Document Type: Review

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