The present status and future prospects of cardiovascular research have been evaluated in
terms of a series of axioms that may serve to summarize this report and to guide our efforts in …

HE ULTIMATE GOAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH is to achieve comprehensive
understanding of both the function and the control of the circulatory system. The circulatory …

CLINICIANS and clinical physiologists would prefer to base an understanding of the function
and regulation of the cardiovascular system on observations carried out in man. However …

The enormous amount of literature presented annually in the field of cardiovascular control
cannot possibly be adequately reviewed within a reasonably limited space. A selection must …

Blood circulates at a rate proportional to tissue metabolic requirements at a constant arterial
pressure. Although this statement is an oversimplifiн cation, it is difficult to make one more …

This new edition of Animal Models in Cardiovascular Research describes historical and
recent advances in our understanding of the cardiovascular system from studies conducted …

It is generally held that the role of a specific control element can only be understood within
its physiological environment. The reviewed studies make it clear that there is a potent …

The first edition of this book was quite successful. As in the first edition, the book is divided
into two major sections: cardiac muscle and coronary circula Several complimentary book …

14 GUYTON, COLEMAN & GRANGER tions. Therefore, the analysis of Figure 1 was based
almost entirely on actual experimental data, and it has been tested in computer simulations …

HROUGHOUT THE YEARS, it has been the position of the author and his associates (I, 6, g,
14, 15, 18-21, 24-26, 28, 29, 32, 34, 35) that the regulation of the heart beat by end-diastolic …