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Evolutionary Morphology of the Autonomic Cardiac Nervous System in Non-human Primates and Humans

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The autonomic cardiac nervous system (ACNS) is responsible for important cardiac functions, such as heart pulse, heart contraction, heart pressure, and cardiac pain delivery. Therefore, many studies of the ACNS from viewpoints of the clinical anatomy and functional analyses using experimental animals have been conducted.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan

    Tomokazu Kawashima & Hiroshi Sasaki

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Kawashima, T., Sasaki, H. (2008). Evolutionary Morphology of the Autonomic Cardiac Nervous System in Non-human Primates and Humans. In: Endo, H., Frey, R. (eds) Anatomical Imaging. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-76933-0_7

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