The autonomic nervous system and its sympathetic arm play important roles in the regulation of blood pressure.1–3 Their role in the short-term regulation of blood pressure, especially in responses to transient changes in arterial pressure, via baroreflex mechanisms is well known.4 However, the role of the sympathetic branch in longer-term (days, months, and years) blood pressure regulation has ...

The autonomic nervous system and its sympathetic arm play important roles in the regulation of blood pressure.1–3 Their role in the short-term regulation of blood pressure, especially in responses to transient changes in arterial pressure, via baroreflex mechanisms is well known.4 However, the role of the sympathetic branch in longer-term (days, months, and years) blood pressure regulation has ...

Fifty Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients between the age group of 20 to 60 years were investigated for sympathetic autonomic functions using standard tests. All the patients liable to develop dysautonomia or having a treatment interfering with autonomic nervous system were excluded. Previous studies to evalute sympathetic nervous system involvement used only a single test like sweating response...

The autonomic nervous system, composed of sympathetic- and para-sympathetic neurons, plays essential roles in a variety of physiological functions including homeostasis and responses to external stimuli. We here present an overview of recent findings concerning how the sympathetic nervous system is formed during the early development, paying particular attention to the morphogenesis of those ti...