Traditional concepts (Bayliss, 1923) concerning the functional organization of the nervous structures controlling the cardio-vascular system, assign to the medulla oblongata a predominant role both in the maintenance of a background neurogenic tone and in the mediation of adaptive and homeostatic responses to changes in sensory input. In this scheme the role of the spinal cord is secondary; the cord's capabilities for maintenance of background tone and for adaptive and homeostatic responses, when its connections with the higher centres are severed, are considered negligible. Instead, the neurones of the vasomotor centre in the brain stem are believed to be the site where convergence and integration of inputs takes place, the true final common path of the system. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.118654 |
| Date | January 1966 |
| Creators | Polosa, Canio. |
| Contributors | Burns, B. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosphy. (Department of Physiology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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