Autonomic nervous system adjustments to the heart and blood vessels are necessary for
mediating the cardiovascular responses required to meet the metabolic demands of working …

Increasing attention is being focused on the role of the autonomic nervous system in health
and disease. The complex interplay between sympathetic and parasympathetic components …

During physical activity, there is a graded withdrawal of vagal cardiac tone and a graded
increase in sympathetic cardiac and vasomotor tone, initiated through both central command …

During dynamic exercise, mechanisms controlling the cardiovascular apparatus operate to
provide adequate oxygen to fulfill metabolic demand of exercising muscles and to guarantee …

New findings What is the topic of this review? The autonomic nervous system plays a key
role in bringing about the cardiovascular responses to exercise necessitated by the …

After considerable debate and key experimental evidence, the importance of the arterial
baroreflex in contributing to and maintaining the appropriate neural cardiovascular …

Heart rate and blood pressure are elevated at the onset and throughout the duration of
dynamic or static exercise. These neurally mediated cardiovascular adjustments to physical …

The complex interplay between the dichotomous subdivisions of the autonomic nervous
system establishes and maintains a delicately tuned homeostasis in spite of an ever …

The sympathetic nervous system plays a crucial role in the regulation of arterial blood
pressure and blood flow to active muscle in the exercising human. During vigorous exercise …

The present review examines the control of muscle vascular conductance by the
sympathetic nervous system during exercise. 2. Evidence for tonic sympathetic neural …