Advantage of recording single-unit muscle sympathetic nerve activity in heart failure

Elevated sympathetic activation is a characteristic feature of heart failure (HF). Excessive sympathetic activation under resting conditions has been shown to increase from the early stages of the disease, and is related to prognosis. Direct recording of multiunit efferent muscle sympathetic nerve a...

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Main Authors: HISAYOSHI eMURAI, Masayuki eTakamura, Shuichi eKaneko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2012.00109/full