Irving S. Friedman. Inflation, a world-wide disaster. Boston, [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1973. 378 p.

IRVING H . ZUCKER and JOSEPH P . GILMORE

Experiments were performed to determine the influence of cardiac sympathetic efferent nerve stimulation on the discharge rate of atrial type B stretch receptors in the anesthetized, open-chest dog. In all experiments, the left stellate ganglion was stimulated following volume expansion. To determine the effects of stellate stimulation, the responses of atrial receptors were observed during the ...

Lessons in disaster: the Boston Marathon bombing.

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Co-movement in Inflation