This complex system is mediated by two major efferent pathways, the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, which obtain afferent signals from different parts of the body, neurons in the ...

Nicotinic receptors — a family of ligand-gated ion channels that mediate the effects of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine — are among the most well understood allosteric membrane proteins ...

The heart is electrically and mechanically controlled as a syncytium by the autonomic nervous system. The cardiac nervous system comprises the sympathetic, parasympathetic, and sensory nervous systems ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a pathological condition that damages the central nervous system. Due to the persistence of neuroinflammation after injury, the prognosis is often poor. Recent studies have ...

Heart rate variability (HRV) has been studied as a non-invasive technique to characterize the autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation of the heart. Non-linear methods based on chaos theory have been ...

The road to the development of treatments for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is littered with failed projects, but US biotech Madrigal Pharma thinks it now has enough evidence for its drug ...

The mammalian circulatory system comprises both the cardiovascular system and the lymphatic system. In contrast to the blood vascular circulation, the lymphatic system forms a unidirectional transit ...

1 online resource : Neurology in Clinical Practice brings you the most current clinical neurology through a comprehensive text, detailed color images, and video demonstrations. Drs. Daroff, Fenichel, ...