Editorial focus: Role for neural growth factor in autonomically driven arrhythmogenesis? Focus on: "Structural neuroplasticity following T5 spinal cord transection: Increased cardiac sympathetic innervation density and SPN arborization"

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Moffitt, Julia A ^a  

^a DES MOINES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; EDITORIAL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INNERVATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; INNERVATION; NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; AUTONOMIC FIBERS, PREGANGLIONIC; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; HUMANS; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 77957596577     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00524.2010     Document Type: Editorial

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