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It is well established that increased sympathetic nerve activity is associated with chronic heart failure (CHF) (Porter et al. 1990 Singh 2000 Olshansky 2005 Brodde et al. 2006 Watson et al. 2006). The increase in sympathetic activity is a compensatory mechanism that provides inotropic support to the heart and peripheral vasoconstriction. However, it promotes disease progression and worsens prognosis (Watson et al. 2006). The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is a very complex, balanced system that influences the initiation, termination, and perpetuation of atrial fibrillation (AF), and the AF affects the ANS (Olshansky, 2005). At rest, sympathetic and parasympathetic outflows are related reciprocally heart failure patients had high sympathetic and low parasympathetic outflows, and healthy subjects had low sympathetic and high parasympathetic outflows (Porter et al. 1990). 

Reaction Mechanism. The reaction mechanism of the anionic-solution polymerization of styrene monomer using n-butyllithium initiator has been the subject of considerable experimental and theoretical investigation (1-8). The polymerization process occurs as the alkyllithium attacks monomeric styrene to initiate active species, which, in turn, grow by a stepwise propagation reaction. This polymerization reaction is characterized by the production of straight chain active polymer molecules ("living" polymer) without termination, branching, or transfer reactions. 

This reaction has been the subject of a great deal of theoretical and mechanistic study, largely because of the commercial importance of the polymers to which it can give rise. Like the other radical reactions we have discussed, it can be said to involve three stages—(a) initiation, (i>) propagation, and (c) termination ... 

Another situation is observed when salts or transition metal complexes are added to an alcohol (primary or secondary) or alkylamine subjected to oxidation in this case, a prolonged retardation of the initiated oxidation occurs, owing to repeated chain termination. This was discovered for the first time in the study of cyclohexanol oxidation in the presence of copper salt [49]. Copper and manganese ions also exert an inhibiting effect on the initiated oxidation of 1,2-cyclohexadiene [12], aliphatic amines [19], and 1,2-disubstituted ethenes [13]. This is accounted for, first, by the dual redox nature of the peroxyl radicals H02, >C(0H)02 and >C(NHR)02 , and, second, for the ability of ions and complexes of transition metals to accept and release an electron when they are in an higher- and lower-valence state. 

Psilocin has also been the object of considerable investigation using animals as subjects. Much of the initial work with psilocin, as well as other 4-hydroxy-tryptamine derivatives with alterations in the side chain and/or terminal amine, was performed at Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland (29,245). Subsequent investigations have shown that psilocin produces hyperthermia in rabbits (113), induces the head-twitch in mice (43), disrupts acquisition of avoidance behavior in rats (240), increases startle response magnitudes in rats (68), increases limb-flick behavior in cats (120), and produces discriminative stimulus effects in rats similar to those of 5-OMeDMT (59) (93). 

The value of h during intervals II and III is of critical importance in determining Rp and has been the subject of much theoretical and experimental work. Three cases can be distinguished—cases 1, 2, and 3. The major differences between the three cases are the occurence of radical diffusion out of the polymer particles (desorption), the particle size, modes of termination, and the rates of initiation and termination relative to each other and to the other reaction parameters. The quantitative interplay of these factors leading to case 1, 2, or 3 behavior has been discussed [Gao and Penlidis, 2002 Gilbert, 1995 Nomura, 1982 ... 

In the case of template processes, this mechanism must be completed by terms accounting for interaction between template, monomer, and polymer. This subject is discussed in more detail in Chapter 8. Intermolecular forces lead to absorption of the monomer on the template or, if interaction between monomer and template is too weak, oligoradicals form complexes with the template. Taking into account these differences in interaction, this case of template polymerization can be divided into two types. In Type I, monomer is preadsorbed by, or complexed with, template macromolecules. Initiation, propagation and perhaps mostly termination take place on the template. The mechanism can be represented by the scheme given in Figure 2.7. 

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