Abnormalities of sympathetic regulation after cervical cord lesions.
Microneurographic recordings suggest that hypertensive reactions in patients with cervical spinal cord lesions usually are due, not to exaggerated sympathetic nerve reactions, but rather to the combination of more diffuse sympathetic nerve activation than normally, exaggerated vascular reactions and absence of blood pressure restraining reflexes.
D006801:Humans; D009132:Muscles / Q000294:innervation; D012867:Skin / Q000294:innervation; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009435:Synaptic Transmission