Myocardial ischemia is usually caused by abnormalities of epicardial coronary arteries. In
the past 30 years, however, several studies have shown that abnormalities in coronary …

Starting out from a brief description of the determinants of coronary blood flow (perfusion,
pressure, extravascular compression, autoregulation, metabolic regulation, endothelium …

Abstract Concomitant with the development of surgical treatment of cardiac arrythmias and
management of myocardial ischemia, there is renewed interest in morphology of the intrinsic …

The intrinsic cardiac nervous system is known to be important both in the prevention and
treatment of risky heart diseases. The present study was designed to determine the …

Myocardial ischemia–reperfusion (I/R) injury leads to intensive sympathetic nervous system
(SNS) activation and inflammatory reactions. Whether renal sympathetic denervation (RDN) …

Since many human heart diseases involve both the intrinsic cardiac neurons and nerves,
their detailed normal ultrastructure was examined in material from autopsy cases without …

Our understanding of coronary syndromes has evolved in the last two decades out of the
obstructive atherosclerosis of epicardial coronary arteries paradigm to include anatomo …

Background—Neurohormones may influence vascular tone both during and after exercise.
Neuropeptide Y (NPY), which is costored and released with norepinephrine (NE) during …

Precordial chest pain affects about 15% to 33% of patients with chronic Chagas disease. In
the absence of megaesophagus, it should be ascribed to chronic Chagas heart disease …

The aim of the study was to determine the morphology of epicardiac ganglia in human
fetuses at different stages of their development as these ganglia are considered to be of a …