Orthostatic hypertension—a rise in blood pressure upon assuming upright posture—is an underappreciated and understudied clinical phenomenon. There is currently no widely agreed-upon definition of ...

A nervous system circuit in fruit flies toggles between supporting stabilizing body posture reflexes or dynamic voluntary action like walking. In a fruit fly, nerve cells that detect limb movement are ...

In this study a 21-gauge disposable scalp-vein needle filled with heparin was inserted into the right brachial artery. In 80 subjects changes in pulse and diastolic pressures occurring during and ...