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Parasympathetic Nervous System
Known as:
nervous parasympathetic system
, Systems, Parasympathetic Nervous
, Parasympathetic part of autonomic division of nervous system
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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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National Institutes of Health
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Broader (2)
Autonomic nervous system
Nervous system structure
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Efferent Pathways
Oculomotor nerve structure
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Review
2008
Review
2008
Parasympathetic nervous system and heart failure: pathophysiology and potential implications for therapy.
B. Olshansky
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H. Sabbah
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P. Hauptman
,
W. Colucci
Circulation
2008
Corpus ID: 1734430
Abundant evidence links sympathetic nervous system activation to outcomes of patients with heart failure (HF).1 In contrast…
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Review
2006
Review
2006
Cytokines sing the blues: inflammation and the pathogenesis of depression.
C. Raison
,
L. Capuron
,
Andrew H. Miller
Trends in immunology
2006
Corpus ID: 6226469
Review
2006
Review
2006
Heart rate variability: a review
U. Acharya
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P. Joseph
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N. Kannathal
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C. M. Lim
,
J. Suri
Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing
2006
Corpus ID: 2970664
Heart rate variability (HRV) is a reliable reflection of the many physiological factors modulating the normal rhythm of the heart…
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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…
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Poincaré plot of heart rate variability allows quantitative display of parasympathetic nervous activity in humans.
P. Kamen
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H. Krum
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A. Tonkin
Clinical science
1996
Corpus ID: 6981114
1. Time domain summary statistics and frequency domain parameters can be used to measure heart rate variability. More recently…
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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.
H. R. Peterson
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M. Rothschild
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C. Weinberg
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R. Fell
,
K. Mcleish
,
M. Pfeifer
The New England journal of medicine
1988
Corpus ID: 1575549
The cause of most cases of human obesity is unknown. Specific alterations in the activity of the autonomic nervous system may…
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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.
H. Yasue
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Y. Horio
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+7 authors
T. Kimura
Circulation
1986
Corpus ID: 34025567
We injected acetylcholine (ACh), the neurotransmitter of the parasympathetic nervous system, into the coronary arteries of 28…
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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Assessment of autonomic function in humans by heart rate spectral analysis.
B. Pomeranz
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R. MacAulay
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+7 authors
R. Cohen
The American journal of physiology
1985
Corpus ID: 46380826
Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations were assessed by use of autonomic blocking agents and changes in posture…
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Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Defective cardiac parasympathetic control in patients with heart disease.
D. Eckberg
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M. Drabinsky
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E. Braunwald
The New England journal of medicine
1971
Corpus ID: 27805198
Abstract To define the state of the parasympathetic nervous system in heart failure, parasympathetic blockade with atropine was…
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