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ReviewAmerican journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology2021

Sympathetic transduction in humans: recent advances and methodological considerations.

Benjamin E Young, Jody L Greaney, David M Keller, Paul J Fadel

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Review in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Resting sympathetic transduction in veterans with PTSD.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2026
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  5. Spontaneous indices correlate with baroreflex gain only in adults with spinal cord injury.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2026
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  7. Resting beat-to-beat blood pressure variability is preserved in young adults with major depressive disorder.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2025
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  8. The role of αAmerican journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025
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  11. Maintained sympathetic reactivity but blunted pressor response to static handgrip exercise in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2025
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  18. Sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity is enhanced in postmenopausal women.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2024
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  20. Sympathetic vascular transduction and baroreflex sensitivity in the context of severe COPD.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2024
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Benjamin E YoungDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.ORCID 0000-0003-0239-005X
Jody L GreaneyDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.
David M KellerDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.
Paul J FadelDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.
The University of Texas at Arlington · US

Funding

Targeting Sympathetic Overactivity in CKD patients: Mechanisms & Novel TherapiesR01HL127071 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON · PI FADEL, PAUL J · 2016 to 2019
$1.7M
Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of Neurovascular Dysfunction in Human DepressionR00HL133414 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON · PI GREANEY, JODY · 2019 to 2021
$746k
Daily stress processes and sympathetic reactivity in depressionR21MH123928 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON · PI GREANEY, JODY · 2021 to 2022
$521k
NHLBI NIH HHS R00 HL133414NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL127071NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH123928
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ever since their origin more than one half-century ago, microneurographic recordings of sympathetic nerve activity have significantly advanced our understanding of the generation and regulation of central sympathetic outflow in human health and disease. For example, it is now appreciated that a myriad of disease states exhibit chronic sympathetic overactivity, a significant predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Although microneurographic recordings allow for the direct quantification of sympathetic outflow, they alone do not provide information with respect to the ensuing sympathetically mediated vasoconstriction and blood pressure (BP) response. Therefore, the study of vascular and/or BP responses to sympathetic outflow (i.e., sympathetic transduction) has now emerged as an area of growing interest within the field of neural cardiovascular control in human health and disease. To date, studies have primarily examined sympathetic transduction under two distinct paradigms: when reflexively evoking sympatho-excitation through the induction of a laboratory stressor (i.e., sympathetic transduction during stress) and/or following spontaneous bursts of sympathetic outflow occurring under resting conditions (i.e., sympathetic transduction at rest). The purpose of this brief review is to highlight how our physiological understanding of sympathetic transduction has been advanced by these studies and to evaluate the primary analytical techniques developed to study sympathetic transduction in humans. We also discuss the framework by which the assessment of sympathetic transduction during stress reflects a fundamentally different process relative to sympathetic transduction at rest and why findings from investigations using these different techniques should be interpreted as such and not necessarily be considered one and the same.

Indexed as

ElectrodiagnosisHemodynamicsAge FactorsBlood Flow VelocityCardiovascular SystemFemaleHumansMaleModels, CardiovascularMuscle ContractionMuscle, SkeletalRace FactorsRegional Blood FlowSex FactorsSympathetic Nervous Systemblood pressuremuscle sympathetic nerve activitytotal peripheral resistancevascular conductancevasoconstriction

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PMID33416453
PMCPMC7988755
OpenAlexW3119920640

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