ON THE NATURE OF CARDIAC CONTROL
Authors: C B CHAPMAN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1960)

Editorials1 December 1960ON THE NATURE OF CARDIAC CONTROLCARLETON B. CHAPMANCARLETON B. CHAPMANAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-53-6-1272 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe survival and, in a sense, the supremacy of the mammalian class are dependent on biological control mechanisms that render the organism extraordinarily responsive to change. One such control mechanism is that which governs the heart, conferring on it the ability to vary its output and external work between very wide limits in remarkably short periods of time. Some organisms, whose natural environment requires relatively little responsiveness, have no need for complex control systems. Yet no organism high enough in the zoological scale to possess anything resembling a heart is totally unresponsive to change. 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