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Parasympathetic Nervous System

Known as: nervous parasympathetic system, Systems, Parasympathetic Nervous, Parasympathetic part of autonomic division of nervous system 
The craniosacral division of the autonomic nervous system. The cell bodies of the parasympathetic preganglionic fibers are in brain stem nuclei and… 
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Broader (2)

Autonomic nervous systemNervous system structure

Narrower (4)

Efferent PathwaysOculomotor nerve structureStructure of ciliary ganglionVagus nerve structure

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Review
2008
Review
2008
Parasympathetic nervous system and heart failure: pathophysiology and potential implications for therapy.
Abundant evidence links sympathetic nervous system activation to outcomes of patients with heart failure (HF).1 In contrast… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Cytokines sing the blues: inflammation and the pathogenesis of depression.
Review
2006
Review
2006
Heart rate variability: a review
Heart rate variability (HRV) is a reliable reflection of the many physiological factors modulating the normal rhythm of the heart… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Neural regulation of innate immunity: a coordinated nonspecific host response to pathogens
  • E. Sternberg
  • Nature Reviews Immunology
  • 2006
  • Corpus ID: 25760742
The central nervous system (CNS) regulates innate immune responses through hormonal and neuronal routes. The neuroendocrine… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Poincaré plot of heart rate variability allows quantitative display of parasympathetic nervous activity in humans.
1. Time domain summary statistics and frequency domain parameters can be used to measure heart rate variability. More recently… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Cardiac vagal tone: A physiological index of stress
  • S. Porges
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • 1995
  • Corpus ID: 20978095
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Body fat and the activity of the autonomic nervous system.
The cause of most cases of human obesity is unknown. Specific alterations in the activity of the autonomic nervous system may… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Induction of coronary artery spasm by acetylcholine in patients with variant angina: possible role of the parasympathetic nervous system in the pathogenesis of coronary artery spasm.
We injected acetylcholine (ACh), the neurotransmitter of the parasympathetic nervous system, into the coronary arteries of 28… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Assessment of autonomic function in humans by heart rate spectral analysis.
Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations were assessed by use of autonomic blocking agents and changes in posture… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Defective cardiac parasympathetic control in patients with heart disease.
Abstract To define the state of the parasympathetic nervous system in heart failure, parasympathetic blockade with atropine was… 
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