Perspectives on the integrative functions of the 'sympatho-adrenomedullary system'.
An historic survey is given of the gradual change of views and concepts concerning how the sympatho-adrenomedullary system is organized and operates: While it for nearly a century was considered to merely exhibit more or less generalized activation-inhibition responses, experimental studies during the last 50 years have revealed how it instead constitutes a highly sophisticated instrument for control, engaged in a variety of differentiated response patterns by which the brain controls events in major organ systems, down to include their cellular-molecular levels of organisation.
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Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Division of Physiology, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden. gunnel.andersson@fysiologi.gu.se
D000313:Adrenal Medulla / Q000294:innervation* / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D002320:Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; D002319:Cardiovascular System / Q000294:innervation; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009490:Neurosecretory Systems / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history*; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*; D014666:Vasomotor System / Q000502:physiology