Left ventricular compliance: mechanisms and clinical implications

…, HJ Levine, MA Quinones, JK Alexander - The American journal of …, 1976 - Elsevier
Left ventricular diastolic compliance is determined by the level of operating pressure and
the diastolic pressure-volume relation. This relation is curvilinear and the slope of a tangent (…

2006 Curt P. Richter award winner: social influences on stress responses and health

…, ER Glasper, GN Neigh, JK Alexander - …, 2007 - Elsevier
Both positive and negative social interactions can modulate the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal
(HPA) axis and influence recovery from injuries and illnesses, such as wounds, stroke, …

Neuroinflammation in spinal cord injury: therapeutic targets for neuroprotection and regeneration

JK Alexander, PG Popovich - Progress in brain research, 2009 - Elsevier
Traumatic spinal cord injury triggers a complex local inflammatory reaction capable of
enhancing repair and exacerbating pathology. The composition and effector potential of the post-…

Identification of two distinct macrophage subsets with divergent effects causing either neurotoxicity or regeneration in the injured mouse spinal cord

…, JC Gensel, DP Ankeny, JK Alexander… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
Macrophages dominate sites of CNS injury in which they promote both injury and repair. These
divergent effects may be caused by distinct macrophage subsets, ie, “classically activated…

Different immune cells mediate mechanical pain hypersensitivity in male and female mice

…, S Rosen, S Beggs, S Taves, JK Alexander… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
A large and rapidly increasing body of evidence indicates that microglia-to-neuron signaling
is essential for chronic pain hypersensitivity. Using multiple approaches, we found that …

Community education for cardiovascular health

…, WL Haskell, AJ Meyer, N Maccoby, JK Alexander… - The Lancet, 1977 - Elsevier
To determine whether community health education can reduce the risk of cardiovascular
disease, a field experiment was conducted in three northern California towns. In two of these …

Beta-adrenergic modulation of cognitive flexibility during stress

JK Alexander, A Hillier, RM Smith… - Journal of cognitive …, 2007 - direct.mit.edu
Stress-induced activation of the locus ceruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system produces
significant cognitive and behavioral effects, including enhanced arousal and attention. …

Influence of acute changes in preload, afterload, contractile state and heart rate on ejection and isovolumic indices of myocardial contractility in man.

MA Quiñones, WH Gaasch, JK Alexander - Circulation, 1976 - Am Heart Assoc
To determine the sensitivity of several isovolumic and ejection phase indices of myocardial
contractility to loading, inotropic stimulation and heart rate in man, 14 patients (pts) were …

[PDF][PDF] Topological invariants of knots and links

JW Alexander - Transactions of the American Mathematical …, 1928 - community.ams.org
… expressing the new generator in terms of the old ones, the matrix ||Xj,j| is again transformed
into an «-… See also a paper by Alexander and Briggs. On types of knotted curves, Annals of …

Physics of the Jovian magnetosphere. 7. Phenomenology of magnetospheric radio emissions.

…, MD Desch, JK Alexander - Physics of the Jovian …, 1983 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Jupiter has now been observed over 24 octaves of the radio spectrum, from about 0.01 MHz
to 300,000 MHz. Its radio emissions fill the entire spectral region where interplanetary …