Fig. 8.1 Schematic illustration of selected endothelium-dependent effects that are present under normal conditions. Endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) produces NO under basal conditions, and in response to a variety of…
Fig. 7.1 Anatomy of the cerebral blood supply. (a) Circle of Willis. (b) The arterial supply of the deep white matter arises from branches of the ACA and the MCA….
Fig. 1.1 Flow of potential reviews through the screening process 5.2.2 Quality of Included Reviews The overall quality of the five reviews was moderate (Table 1.1). All five reviews specified…
Fig. 10.1 Summary of sex differences in neural regions of cardiovascular regulation. SFO projections stimulate sympathoexcitatory PVN projections to the IML, as well as indirect projections (dashed line) via the…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Hélène Girouard (ed.)Hypertension and the Brain as an End-Organ Target10.1007/978-3-319-25616-0_2 2. Hypertension and Age-Related Cognitive Decline Laurence Desjardins-Crépeau1, 2 and Louis Bherer1, 3 (1) Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de…
Fig. 9.1 Hypothesis for PRO/PRR and Ang II/AT1R interactions in pre-autonomic nuclei during neurogenic hypertension. RAS-induced astrogliosis increases pro-inflammatory cytokine expression and microglial recruitment at pre-autonomic nuclei such as the…
Fig. 14.1 Block diagram of the EEG-ECG based online seizure detection architecture The data captured from the sensors (where N are the EEG electrodes plus one ECG channel) have been…
Fig. 12.1 Pipeline of the K-complex detection methodology First step: In the first step, all the local minima from each available signal are detected and considered as candidate K-complexes. The…
Fig. 11.1 Components of the ISO/EN 13606 association (2009) The ISO/EN 13606 is a subset of the full openEHR specification [9]. Within the shared classes the main difference between with…
Fig. 3.1 Sleep macro- and microstructure. (a) Sleep time (S) is controlled by both circadian and homeostatic factors, the latter building up as waking (W) progresses and diminishing slowly after…
