Autonomic Nervous System

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A sweet spot for the bariatric surgeon. 
  • Acetylcholine promotes the proliferation and collagen gene expression of myofibroblastic hepatic stellate cells. 
  • Activation in the region of parabrachial nucleus elicits neurogenically mediated coronary vasoconstriction. 
  • Active coping moderates associations among race-related stress, rumination, and depressive symptoms in emerging adult African American women. 
  • Adolescent nicotine exposure alters cardiac autonomic responsiveness: beta-adrenergic and m2-muscarinic receptors and their linkage to adenylyl cyclase. 
  • Ambulatory cardiovascular activity in Vietnam combat veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype predicts cardiac and autonomic responses to prolonged exercise. 
  • Association of depressive symptoms with reduced baroreflex cardiac control in coronary artery disease. 
  • Autonomic and behavioral responses of selectively bred hypercholinergic rats to oxotremorine and diisopropyl fluorophosphate. 
  • Autonomic response during bladder hydrodistention reflects the severity of symptoms in patients with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis. 
  • Baroreflex-mediated cardiovascular responses to hyperbaric oxygen. 
  • Biofeedback: a possible treatment for Raynaud's disease. 
  • Bladder decompensation and reduction in nerve density in a rat model of chronic bladder outlet obstruction are attenuated with the NLRP3 inhibitor glyburide. 
  • Circadian Contrasts in Heart Rate Variability Associated With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in a Young Adult Cohort. 
  • Conditioning changes in differential skin temperature. 
  • Depression, heart rate variability, and acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Detection of silent myocardial ischemia in diabetes mellitus. 
  • Effects of striatal nitric oxide production on regional cerebral blood flow and seizure development in rats exposed to extreme hyperoxia. 
  • Emotional triggering of cardiac dysfunction: the present and future. 
  • Exaggerated heart rate oscillations during two meditation techniques. 
  • Fast modulation of prefrontal cortex activity by basal forebrain noncholinergic neuronal ensembles. 
  • Fetal heart rate variability responsiveness to maternal stress, non-invasively detected from maternal transabdominal ECG. 
  • Genomics of Cardiovascular Measures of Autonomic Tone. 
  • Heart rate turbulence, depression, and survival after acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Human choline transporter gene variation is associated with corticolimbic reactivity and autonomic-cholinergic function. 
  • Impaired chronotropic and vasodilator reserves limit exercise capacity in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction. 
  • Is shock a key element in the pathology of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)? 
  • Is there a glycemic threshold for impaired autonomic control? 
  • Multivariate pattern classification reveals autonomic and experiential representations of discrete emotions. 
  • Operant conditioning: a new theoretical approach in psychosomatic medicine. 
  • Opioid dysfunction and risk for hypertension: naloxone and blood pressure responses during different types of stress. 
  • Reduced tolerance and cardiovascular response to ischemic pain in minor depression. 
  • Sinus node dysfunction. 
  • Spatial working and reference memory in rats bred for autonomic sensitivity to cholinergic stimulation: acquisition, accuracy, speed, and effects of cholinergic drugs. 
  • Specific connections between nerve cells. 
  • Stereotype threat, trait perseveration, and vagal activity: evidence for mechanisms underpinning health disparities in Black Americans. 
  • Surgical autonomic denervation results in altered colonic motility: an explanation for low anterior resection syndrome? 
  • Temporary autonomic modulation with botulinum toxin type A to reduce atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery. 
  • The Autonomic Nervous System and Hypertension: Ethnic Differences and Psychosocial Factors. 
  • The beta-adrenergic receptor in heart failure. 
  • The effect of pentobarbital anesthesia on the autonomic nervous system control of heart rate during baroreceptor activation. 
  • The relation of postsynaptic geometry to the number of presynaptic axons that innervate autonomic ganglion cells. 
  • The role of behavior in diabetes care. 
  • Trophic regulation of nerve cell morphology and innervation in the autonomic nervous system. 
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  Keywords of People

  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Suarez Roca, Heberto, Research Scientist, Anesthesiology