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Cardiovascular Research 1995 30(3):326-335; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(95)00105-0
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Copyright © 1995, European Society of Cardiology

Role of peripheral autonomic neurones in maintaining adequate cardiac function

J.A. Armour, J.L. Ardell, Magda Horackova, J.A. Armour, J.L. Ardell, J.Andrew Armour, J.A. Armour and J.L. Ardell*

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., B3H 4H7, Canada

* Corresponding author. Tel. 001902494 3517; Fax 001902494 1685.

This review has focused on the putative effects that peripheral autonomic neurones exert on cardiac myocytes. Through data obtained by the use of in situ and in vitro models, the unique synaptology and chemical sensitivities of the various types of neurones in intrinsic cardiac and extracardiac intrathoracic ganglia are becoming evident. The intrathoracic nervous system acts as a distributive network, processing in a complex fashion information that arises not only from cardiac, vascular and pulmonary tissues but also from extrathoracic tissues, to maintain adequate cardiac function. In challenging the current understanding of cardiac regulation, this view provides novel opportunities to develop pharmacological and surgical strategies to manipulate cardiac function in disease states.

KEYWORDS Autonomic nervous system; Heart rate; Myocardial function; Cardiac neurons


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