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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… (More)

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Autonomic nervous systemNervous system structure

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Efferent PathwaysOculomotor nerve structureStructure of ciliary ganglionVagus nerve structure

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Parasympathetic Nervous System
Nervous system structure
physiological aspects
Autonomic nervous system
Vagus nerve structure
Blood supply aspects

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2009
2009
Moderate pressure massage elicits a parasympathetic nervous system response.
Twenty healthy adults were randomly assigned to a moderate pressure or a light pressure massage therapy group, and EKGs were… (More)
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2000
Highly Cited
2000
Effect of sensory stimulation (acupuncture) on sympathetic and parasympathetic activities in healthy subjects.
UNLABELLED It has been postulated that sensory stimulation (acupuncture) affects the cardiovascular system via the autonomic… (More)
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1999
Highly Cited
1999
Retarded Growth and Deficits in the Enteric and Parasympathetic Nervous System in Mice Lacking GFRα2, a Functional Neurturin Receptor
Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and a related protein, neurturin (NTN), require a GPI-linked coreceptor… (More)
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1997
Highly Cited
1997
Sleep and circadian influences on cardiac autonomic nervous system activity.
To assess the separate contributions of the sleep and circadian systems to changes in cardiac autonomic nervous system (ANS… (More)
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1997
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1997
Does the chronic fatigue syndrome involve the autonomic nervous system?
PURPOSE To investigate the role of the autonomic nervous system in the symptoms of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS… (More)
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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… (More)
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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… (More)
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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… (More)
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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… (More)
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1965
Highly Cited
1965
Relative Roles of the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems in the Reflex Control of Heart Rate.
• Since the work of Marey in 1859, it has been known that as arterial pressure is changed acutely, heart rate varies in an… (More)
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