Current Approaches to Quantifying Tonic and Reflex Autonomic Outflows Controlling Cardiovascular Function in Humans and Experimental Animals

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Salman, Ibrahim M ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomic reflexes; Blood pressure; Cardiovascular function; Heart rate; Parasympathetic nerve activity; Sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BEZOLD JARISCH REFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CARDIAC SYMPATHETIC NERVE; CARDIOPULMONARY REFLEX; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CAROTID SINUS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXERCISE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GANGLION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LUMBAR SYMPATHETIC NERVE; MECHANOSENSITIVE REFLEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; REFLEX; RENAL SYMPATHETIC NERVE; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY REFLEX; SPLANCHNIC SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HEART RATE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; REFLEX;

EID: 84941908715     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-015-0597-2     Document Type: Review

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