Neurogenic factors and hypertension in renal disease

Neurogenic control of peripheral resistance in renal hypertension.

• It has been well established that there is a resetting of baroceptor nerve activity in chronic experimental renal hypertension.' This, together with the fact that pithing of the brain and spinal cord lowers the blood pressure of hypertensive animals to the same low values that are found in normal animals after pithing, and that it is possible to lower the blood pressure of rats with chronic h...

proficiency level and factors fostering reticence in efl learners

according to cheng (1999), in recent esl/efl literature, asian (especially east asian) learners of english as a foreign/second language have been arguably reported as reticent and passive learners. the most common allegations are that these students are reluctant to participate in classroom discourse; they are unwilling to give responses; they do not ask questions; and they are passive and over...

Arterial Hypertension and Renal Disease

The past decade has witnessed enormous advances in understanding the association between arterial hypertension and renal disease. This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive review about new insights generated from recent experimental and clinical studies that should shed light on the role of the kidney in causing hypertension but also the role of hypertension in causing renal disease. It will...

Hypertension and unilateral renal disease.

NEUROGENIC HYPERTENSION: REPORT OF FIVE CASES TO HIGHLIGHT THE CONTROVERSY

The entity of "neurogenic hypertension" is defined as arterial hypertension caused explicitly by derangement of the intricate network of the central nervous system. Among 193 cases of cranial rhizopathies operated on between 1984 and 1995 at this center, 5 cases of established arterial hypertension with concomitant rhizopathies also underwent ventrolateral medullary decompression. The elev...