Handbook of the autonomic nervous system in health and disease [electronic resource] / edited by C. Liana Bolis, Julio Licinio, Stefano Govoni.
Examines the role of the ANS in the maintenance and control of bodily homeostasis, as well as in the pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and treatment of disorders such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, asthma, arrhythmia, diabetes, ischemia, myocardial infarction, urinary retention, and depressio...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Marcel Dekker,
©2003.
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| Series: | Neurological disease and therapy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Contents; Contributors; Structural and Chemical Organization of the Autonomic Neuroeffector System; Immune Function and Regulation of the Autonomic Nervous System; Organ Specificity of Autonomic Nervous System Responses; Plasticity in the Autonomic Nervous System; The Adrenal Medulla; Autonomic Nervous System-Leptin Interactions; The Autonomic Nervous System and Thermoregulation; Phylogenesis of the Autonomic Nervous System from Fish to Mammals; Clinical Studies of the Sympathetic Nervous System; Autonomic Regulation and Dysregulation of the Heart.