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Chen PS, Chen LS, Cao JM, Sharifi B, Karagueuzian HS, Fishbein MC. of the heart. These results indicate that the interaction between 4 integrin and VCAM-1 is important for sympathetic innervation of the heart. Keywords: integrins, vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, sympathetic neurons, heart, neurite outgrowth, neural development Sympathetic neurons with cell bodies in the superior, middle, and inferior cervical and thoracic sympathetic chain ganglia innervate the heart and, during stimulation from higher centers, release norepinephrine (NE) (Pappano, 1977; Ganguly and Sherwood, 1991), which increases the rate and strength of cardiac contractions. The path followed by developing sympathetic axons starts at…