title: Blood pressure regulation: every adaptation is an integration?
abstract: This focused review serves to explore relevant issues in regard to blood pressure regulation and by doing so, provides the initial stimulus paper for the Thematic Review series "Blood Pressure Regulation" to be published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology over the coming months. In this introduction, we highlight how variable normal blood pressure can be and challenge the reader to take another look at some key concepts related to blood pressure regulation. We point out that there is frequently an underappreciated balance between peripheral vasodilation and systemic blood pressure regulation and ask the question: are changes in blood pressure, in effect, reasonable and integrated adaptations to the physiological challenge at hand? We conclude with the idea that blood pressure regulatory systems are both flexible and redundant; ensuring a wide variety of activities associated with life can be accompanied by a perfusion pressure that can serve multiple masters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA, joyner.michael@mayo.edu.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Joyner
authors.forename: Jacqueline K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Limberg
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000502:physiology; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D014664:Vasodilation / Q000502:physiology
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