Neural set point for the control of arterial pressure: Role of the nucleus tractus solitarius

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zanutto, B Silvano ^a,b   Valentinuzzi, Max E ^a   Segura, Enrique T ^b  

^a Buenos Aires University   (Argentina)

^b INST DE BIOL Y MED EXPERIMENTAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURES; BAROREFLEX; CARDIOVASCULAR CONTROL; CARDIOVASCULAR REGULATION; DENERVATION; DISCHARGE RATES; ERROR SIGNAL; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FEEDBACK INPUT; MEAN ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURES; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL STRUCTURES; OPEN LOOPS; PRESSURE VALUES; SET-POINT; SHORT TERM; STEADY-STATE CONDITION;

BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARATORS (OPTICAL); FEEDBACK; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SYSTEM THEORY; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; REFLEX; REVIEW; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REFLEX; SOLITARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 76749106132     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-9-4     Document Type: Review

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