chapter 1 Structural and Chemical Organization of the Autonomic Neuroeffector System / chapter 2 Immune Function and Regulation of the Autonomic Nervous System: A Molecular Point of View / chapter 3 Organ Specificity of Autonomic Nervous System Responses / chapter 4 Plasticity in the Autonomic Nervous System: Responses of Adult Sympathetic Neurons to Injury / chapter 5 The Adrenal Medulla: Physiology and Pathophysiology / chapter 6 Autonomic Nervous System–Leptin Interactions: Impact on Metabolic Rate and Body Weight Regulation / chapter 7 The Autonomic Nervous System and Thermoregulation / chapter 8 Phylogenesis of the Autonomic Nervous System from Fish to Mammals / chapter 9 Clinical Studies of the Sympathetic Nervous System / chapter 10 Autonomic Regulation and Dysregulation of the Heart: Insights from Spectral Analysis of Cardiovascular Oscillations / chapter 11 Cardiovascular Autonomic Dysregulation / chapter 12 Uremic Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy: Clinical Evaluation with Heart Rate Variability and Metaiodobenzylguanidine -- chapter 13 The Function of the Autonomic Nervous System in Hypertension / chapter 14 Autonomic Control of the Airways / chapter 15 The Parasympathetic Nervous System in the Pathophysiology of the Gastrointestinal Tract / chapter 16 The Autonomic Nervous System in the Normal Control and Pathophysiology of the Exocrine–Endocrine Pancreas / chapter 17 Diabetes and the Autonomic Nervous System / chapter 18 Sympathetic Innervation of the Kidney in Health and Disease / chapter 19 Nerve Control of Bladder Function / chapter 20 Sleep Regulation and the Autonomic Nervous System / chapter 21 Major Depression and the Autonomic Nervous System Gina Rinetti and Ma-Li Wong.