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Thoracic Autonomic Nerves Regulating the Canine Heart

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As the topic of neural regulation of the heart has been reviewed recently (16,30,31,40), the present discussion will be confined to the thoracic elemsnts involved in such regulation. Firstly, seme of the functions of cardiac afferents will be described. This will be followed by a discussion of some of the functions of efferent cardiac nerves. Then some of the interactions between these components — the reflex regulation of the heart — will be discussed.

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  1. Department of Physiology and Biophysics Halifax, Dalhousie University, B3H 4H7, Nuova Scotia, Canada

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  1. Dept. of Clinical Immunology, University Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    R. E. Ballieux

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    J. F. Fielding

  3. Dept. of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

    A. L’Abbate

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Armour, J.A. (1984). Thoracic Autonomic Nerves Regulating the Canine Heart. In: Ballieux, R.E., Fielding, J.F., L’Abbate, A. (eds) Breakdown in Human Adaptation to ‘Stress’. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3285-2_29

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