Baroreflex Dysfunction Baroreflexes play both an adaptive and a homeostatic role,
maintaining blood pressure, heart rate, and blood volume within the normal range. Defects …

Genetic pain loss includes congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), hereditary sensory
neuropathies and, if autonomic nerves are involved, hereditary sensory and autonomic …

Dry eye syndrome (DES) is multifactorial and likely to be a cause of concern more so than
ever given the rapid pace of modernization, which is directly associated with many of the …

Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a rare neurological disorder caused by a splice mutation in
the IKBKAP gene. The mutation arose in the 1500s within the small Jewish founder …

Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a rare genetic neurologic disorder caused by impaired
neuronal development and progressive degeneration of both the peripheral and central …

Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a currently untreatable, neurodegenerative disease caused
by a splicing mutation (c. 2204+ 6T> C) that causes skipping of exon 20 of the elongator …

Objectives: Identify the etiology of dry eye syndrome. Describe the presentation, diagnosis,
signs, and symptoms of a patient with dry eye syndrome. Outline the treatment and …

Familial dysautonomia (FD) is an autosomal recessive hereditary sensory and autonomic
neuropathy (HSAN, type 3) expressed at birth with profound sensory loss and early death …

Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a recessive neurodegenerative disease caused by a splice
mutation in Elongator complex protein 1 (ELP1, also known as IKBKAP); this mutation leads …

The glossopharyngeal and vagus cranial nerves provide the brainstem with sensory inputs
from different receptors in the heart, lung, and vasculature. This afferent information is critical …