Complexity of cardiovascular regulation in small animals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1892, 2009, Pages 1239-1250

  Aubert, André E ^a   Vandeput, Steven ^b   Beckers, Frank ^a   Liu, Jiexin ^a   Verheyden, Bart ^a   Van Huffel, Sabine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Fractal dimension; Nonlinear dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR REGULATION; CONTROL MECHANISM; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HEART RATE AND BLOOD PRESSURE; LINEAR METHODS; NON-LINEAR METHODS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS METHODS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SMALL ANIMAL;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DISEASE MODEL; ENTROPY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HEART RATE; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLOMETRY; RAT; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTROPY; FRACTALS; HEART RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLOMETRY; RATS;

EID: 65549114606     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0276     Document Type: Review

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