Medical Student Conference Details

July 7-10, 2012

Omaha, Nebraska 68101, United States

The purpose of this conference is to provide a scientific forum for the exchange of ideas and the presentation of the most recent data on the regulation of sympathetic nerve activity in health and disease. Sympathetic activation, while considered a physiologically relevant and important regulator of arterial pressure, blood flow and vascular resistance, is thought to contribute to pathology, if overactive. This is especially true in those conditions that require a high level of sympathetic tone to compensate for an abnormal cardiac output or where sympathetic nervous activity sustains arterial pressure in a range that is clearly detrimental to organ function. It is critical that a comprehensive understanding of the integrative mechanisms that take part in abnormal sympathetic function take place so that more rational therapy for these disorders can be developed.