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ReviewJournal of neurophysiology2018

Fifty years of microneurography: learning the language of the peripheral sympathetic nervous system in humans.

J Kevin Shoemaker, Stephen A Klassen, Mark B Badrov, Paul J Fadel

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of neurophysiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04681612 (The Prognostic Role of Indices of Sympathetic Nervous System Overdrive in Patients With Myocardial Infarction With Non-obstructive Coronary Arteries), which is not on this map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT04681612 unknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

The Prognostic Role of Indices of Sympathetic Nervous System Overdrive in Patients With Myocardial Infarction With Non-obstructive Coronary Arteries

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorHippocration General HospitalRan2019 to 2023Enrolled150ConditionsMyocardial Infarction With Nonobstructive Coronary ArteriesArmsMSNA, Heart Rate Variability, Blood Pressure Variability, CMR, History, Lab, clinical and hemodynamic parameters
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Short-term water deprivation does not increase blood pressure variability or impair neurovascular function in healthy young adults.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2020
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  4. The association between enlarged perivascular spaces and muscle sympathetic nerve activity in normotensive and hypertensive humans.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2025
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  7. Human sympathetic neuronal discharge and recruitment patterns regulate neuropeptide Y bioavailability.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2024
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  8. Central αThe Journal of physiology · 2024
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  12. Polycystic ovary syndrome.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2024
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  14. Phenotyping autonomic neuropathy using principal component analysis.Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical · 2023
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  16. Differential regulation of sympathetic neural burst frequency and amplitude throughout normal pregnancy: a longitudinal study.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2023
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  18. Impaired sympathetic neural recruitment during exercise pressor reflex activation in women with post-traumatic stress disorder.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2022
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  20. The impact of ageing and sex on sympathetic neurocirculatory regulation.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

J Kevin ShoemakerSchool of Kinesiology, University of Western Ontario , London, Ontario , Canada.
Stephen A KlassenSchool of Kinesiology, University of Western Ontario , London, Ontario , Canada.
Mark B BadrovSchool of Kinesiology, University of Western Ontario , London, Ontario , Canada.
Paul J FadelDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington , Arlington, Texas.
Western University · CAThe University of Texas at Arlington · US

Funding

CIHR
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As a primary component of homeostasis, the sympathetic nervous system enables rapid adjustments to stress through its ability to communicate messages among organs and cause targeted and graded end organ responses. Key in this communication model is the pattern of neural signals emanating from the central to peripheral components of the sympathetic nervous system. But what is the communication strategy employed in peripheral sympathetic nerve activity (SNA)? Can we develop and interpret the system of coding in SNA that improves our understanding of the neural control of the circulation? In 1968, Hagbarth and Vallbo (Hagbarth KE, Vallbo AB. Acta Physiol Scand 74: 96-108, 1968) reported the first use of microneurographic methods to record sympathetic discharges in peripheral nerves of conscious humans, allowing quantification of SNA at rest and sympathetic responsiveness to physiological stressors in health and disease. This technique also has enabled a growing investigation into the coding patterns within, and cardiovascular outcomes associated with, postganglionic SNA. This review outlines how results obtained by microneurographic means have improved our understanding of SNA outflow patterns at the action potential level, focusing on SNA directed toward skeletal muscle in conscious humans.

Indexed as

MicroelectrodesElectrodiagnosisElectrophysiological PhenomenaHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansMuscle, SkeletalNeurophysiologyNeurovascular CouplingPeripheral NervesSympathetic Nervous Systemmicroneurographymuscle sympathetic nerve activityneural control of the circulatoinrecruitment strategiesreflex cardiovascular control

Identifiers

PMID29412776
PMCPMC6008088
OpenAlexW2786609060

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