Nervous Control of Cardiovascular Function

In this book, Dr Walter C. Randall and his collaborating authors have presented to the readers a wealth of new information on the interrelation of the nervous and the cardiovascular systems. The painstaking research of these leading investigators has not only culminated in many new facts on the neural regulation of the cardiovascular system in health and its readjustments in disease, but they have also suggested new directions for acquiring answers to existing questions. Thus, the authors of the 20 chapters in this book have fully achieved their objective in providing students of diverse bioscience disciplines with fresh ideas and approaches to the interaction of the two systems to preserve cardiovascular integrity and function. The book may be broadly divided into the following sections with interlinking references: (1) anatomy of extrinsic efferent autonomic nerves and ganglia, and of selective autonomic innervation of the heart; (2) regulation of cardiac function, cardiac