BRIEF REVIEWS Peripheral Neurogenic Factors in Acute and Chronic Alterations of Arterial Pressure

FOR MANY years it has been well apreciated that the control of systemic arterial blood pressure is exerted at central as well as peripheral neural sites. Much attention has been directed recently at the central component of arterial blood pressure regu-lation, and numerous reviews have been devoted to this subject (see Brody et al., 1980; Chalmers, 1975; Hilton and Spyer, 1980; Palkovits and Zaborszky, 1977). Less emphasis has been placed on peripheral neurogenic influences on vascular tone relating to blood pressure regulation. One of the difficulties encountered when evaluating relative importance of peripheral or central factors is the imprecise meth-odology for studying them independently. Implicat-ing a change in peripheral neurogenic function du