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The relations between arterial pressure and flow in the coronary bed are under the influence of the humoral-nervous systems, and under local control, i.e., autoregulation. There is also the mechanical effect of the contracting cardiac muscle on coronary flow. Several other mutual interactions of smaller magnitude between the coronary vasculature and the cardiac muscle exist, which will be discussed below. The quantitative contribution of humoral and nervous control will not be discussed here. For a comprehensive description of coronary hemodynamics see refs. [1–3].
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Westerhof, N., Stergiopulos, N., Noble, M.I.M. (2010). The Coronary Circulation. In: Snapshots of Hemodynamics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6363-5_18
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