Functions of the peripheral heart. A. I. Ignatovsky (Phys. Ob., 1926, No. 12)

Abstract

It is now possible to prove that the vessels have the same functions that characterize the heart: stimulus automatism, excitability, tonicity, contractility, and stimulus conduction. Blood circulation should be considered as a combination of the action of the heart and vessels, at the same time recognizing the functional separateness of both. The doctrine of the peripheral heart must be understood in the sense that the heart is a kind of dynamo for the vessels, while the latter are a kind of pumping pump for the blood circulation.

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