Cardiovascular regulation by the central nervous system plays
crucial roles in homeostasis. Disorder of this system causes serious
problems in a living body. Despite this, it has been remained that
lots of unknown mechanisms in the cardiovascular center. In order to
investigate these mechanisms, we are electrophysiologically
approaching to mechanisms of cardiovascular regulation by the
cardiovascular center using in vivo preparation and in situ
preparation (arterially perfused preparation) of rodents. At
present, we are especially focusing on stress-induced cardiovascular
regulation, chemosensitive mechanisms of
the cardiovascular center, and diseases
which is caused by neural dysregulations of the cardiovascular
functions. |