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SUBMITTER: Heusser K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8519000 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heusser Karsten K Heusser Ramona R Jordan Jens J Urechie Vasile V Diedrich André A Tank Jens J
Frontiers in neuroscience 20210927
Arterial baroreflex assessment using vasoactive substances enables investigators to collect data pairs over a wide range of blood pressures and reflex reactions. These data pairs relate intervals between heartbeats or sympathetic neural activity to blood pressure values. In an X-Y plot the data points scatter around a sigmoidal curve. After fitting the parameters of a sigmoidal function to the data, the graph's characteristics represent a rather comprehensive quantitative reflex description. Var ...[more]