Pharmacological treatment for heart failure: a view from the brain.
Clin Pharmacol Ther
; 86(2): 216-20, 2009 Aug.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19553933
ABSTRACT
Systolic heart failure is a feed-forward phenomenon with devastating consequences. Impaired cardiac function is the initiating event, but central nervous system mechanisms activated by persistent altered neural and humoral signals from the periphery play an important sustaining role. Animals with experimentally induced heart failure have neurochemical abnormalities in the brain that, when manipulated, profoundly affect sympathetic drive, volume regulation, and cardiac remodeling--critical determinants of outcome. This brief review explores recent studies that provide a strong rationale for the development of pharmaceutical agents that target central nervous system abnormalities in heart failure.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Sympathetic Nervous System
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Brain
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Cardiovascular Agents
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Heart Failure, Systolic
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Clin Pharmacol Ther
Year:
2009
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States