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Artery

(Science: anatomy, artery) blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart, walls have smooth muscle and are innervated by the sympathetic nervous system. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.A major thoroughfare that bears important traffic.An artery carries large volumes of oxygenated blood to the major organs of the body. These arteries eventually branch off into smaller arterioles which transport blood to more remote areas in the body.


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Dilation or Constriction

It triggers the constriction. For example when you're wounded and you start losing blood, renal afferent artery constricts and you stop losing more water from your body.

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by miloshic
Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:29 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Dilation or Constriction
Replies: 3
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blood pressure

If you cut yourself at a epidermal layer, I doubt it would affect BP rates. You would have to cut an artery or a vein to affect bp. With that said, I am sure a cut that caused pain would affect your heart, not because of the change in BP rather your panic level. Which in ...

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by MichaelXY
Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:35 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: blood pressure
Replies: 13
Views: 1381

blood pressure

... completely doing it at their own risk and by free will. [/END OF DISCLAIMER] Now I'm waiting for goreboy8 to proudly announce that he lashed his artery and that the writ is in the mail. Oh btw, did the blood pressure fall?

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by biohazard
Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:46 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: blood pressure
Replies: 13
Views: 1381

Dilation or Constriction

Does sympathetic nerve trigger the dilation or constriction of renal afferent artery? thx^^

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by whizzbee
Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:40 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Dilation or Constriction
Replies: 3
Views: 734

Sinoatrial Node ,

... But if you can find it as well when ever you get free time that would help me a great deal. I mean you broke it down beyond the celiac artery (sweet). Also I found out that the Vagus nerve plays a vital role with nerves especially the cranial and medulla oblongata it extend all the ...

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by CXCR4
Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:57 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: controling Nerve of the Brain? Which One
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