Reviews in Neural Control of Peripheral Function

Dear Colleagues,

The main purpose of this Special Issue is to gather studies on the neural control of peripheral function, considered to be a set of biological operations and their interactions carried out by the brain and cardiovascular system to understand the vascular biology and genetic background of peripheral nerves. These studies will aim to carry out a more practical level of understanding, showing novel experimental techniques for studying functional interactions associated with peripheral functions for better understanding the precise variation in the activity of the parasympathetic and sympathetic autonomic outflows.

One of the main goals is to explain the importance of peripheral function and how it is associated with cardiovascular control and other tissues to maintain the arterial blood pressure. It is also necessary to discuss and observe functions relevant to arteries and veins and their genetic basis. As a prevalent feature, the studies in this Issue will rely upon the unusual changes in blood pressure, as well as the distribution of blood volume essential to maintain fundamental prefusion of the heart and brain in the face of physiological, genetic, and non-genetic challenges. As neural control provides a powerful mechanism to observe the frequent alterations in cardiac and vascular function are pivotal to maintain blood pressure and appropriately distribute cardiac output in response to physiological and environmental challenge, it is necessary to observe the changes in the brain and heart and how neural control centers modulate them.

Studies related to peripheral mechanisms that control both cardiac and neural receptors are welcome. Proposals must examine the fundamentals of the heart and blood vessels, as well as the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves, in both healthy people and in brain-damaged patients, or experimental models. In silico studies are also welcome.

Authors are invited to submit relevant original research articles, as well as opinion and review papers.

Dr. Abirami Veluchamy
Dr. Sundararajan Srinivasan
Guest Editors

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• cardiovascular
• peripheral circulation
• sympathetic nerves
• parasympathetic nerves
• animal models
• genetics
• non-genetics/environmental

Title: Postural control in an equilibrium-point-hypothesis derived point-of-view
Authors: Nicolas Turpin
Affiliation: University of La Réunion