**Meet the editor**

Pavol Svorc, Associate Professor of Normal and Pathological Physiology, Doctor of Natural Sciences, and Doctor of Philosophy, works at the Faculty of Medicine of Šafarik's University, Košice. From 2011 until 2014 he was Head of the Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is a member of the committee for Human

Physiology and Pathophysiology at the Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin and of the committee for Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine in Ostrava. Currently, he is visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Ostrava, Ostrava University. His research focuses on the chronobiology of the cardiovascular system, autonomic nervous system, respiratory system, and anesthesia. He has authored several international journal articles and book chapters and participated in 126 conferences and workshops worldwide.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Autonomic Nervous System 1**

**Know About It 3** Pavol Svorc

**Practice 37**

**Physiopathology 39**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Autonomic Nervous System - What We**

Alexandra E. Proshchina, Yuliya S. Krivova, Olga G. Leonova, Valeriy

Ângela Leal, Mafalda Carvalho, Isabel Rocha and Helder Mota-Filipe

**Section 2 Autonomic Nervous System and Digestion 13**

M. Barabanov and Sergey V. Saveliev

Chapter 3 **Autonomic Nervous System and Neurocardiac**

Chapter 4 **Inflammation and Autonomic Function 67**

**Section 4 Autonomic Nervous System and its Organization 89**

Vidya Chandrasekaran and Pamela J. Lein

Chapter 5 **Regulation of Dendritogenesis in Sympathetic Neurons 91**

Chapter 2 **Development of Human Pancreatic Innervation 15**

**Section 3 Autonomic Nervous System and Implications in Clinical**

John G. Kingma, Denys Simard and Jacques R. Rouleau
