METABOLIC PROTECTION AND RECONDITIONING OF THE HEART MUSCLE THROUGH HABITUAL PHYSICAL EXERCISE
Authors: W RAAB
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1960)

Article1 July 1960METABOLIC PROTECTION AND RECONDITIONING OF THE HEART MUSCLE THROUGH HABITUAL PHYSICAL EXERCISEW. RAAB, M.D., F.A.C.P.W. RAAB, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-53-1-87 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn the medical literature of the Soviet Union it is customary to begin scientific articles with a reference to I. P. Pavlov's Collected Works, regardless of whether the subject bears any close relationship to them or not. At the outset of the following discussion, however, no reasons of etiquette are needed to give credit to the great Russian physiologist, whose doctor's thesis (1883)1 was based on his early fundamental studies concerning the cardiac sympathetic nerve, including its "trophic" significance, which was to be disregarded in the West for many decades.It is one of the psychologic paradoxes of our time...Bibliography1. Pavlov IP: Centrobyezhnye nyervy syerdsa, Doctor's dissertation, St. Petersburg, 1883 (re-edited by Acad. of Med. Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1954). Google Scholar2. First International Symposium on "The catecholamines in cardiovascular pathology," reviewed in Cardiologia 36: 181, 1960. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. Sarnoff SJ: Certain aspects of the role of catecholamines in circulatory regulation, Am. J. Cardiol. 5: 579, 1960. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. RushmerSmithFranklin RFOD: Mechanisms of cardiac control in exercise, Circul. Res. 7: 602, 1959. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Burlington, Vermont*Received for publication December 30, 1959.From the Division of Experimental Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Unit of the University of Vermont at the DeGoesbriand Memorial Hospital, Burlington, Vermont.†The writer's own investigations upon which the viewpoints of this article are based were supported by research grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, The John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, the U. S. Public Health Service (National Heart Institute), the American Medical Association, the Vermont Heart Association, the U. S. Department of State (Fulbright Commission in Vienna), and the Universitätsbund Innsbruck, Austria.Requests for reprints should be addressed to W. Raab, M.D., Professor of Experimental Medicine, The University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont. 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