Coronary Microvascular Function and Beyond: The Crosstalk between Hormones, Cytokines, and Neurotransmitters

Figure 4

The cardiovascular system in the psychoneurological, hormonal, and immune network: it receives and sends signals to the brain, to the immune, and to the endocrine system [75]. As in Leonardo’s Vitruvian man, also this network represents harmony and perfection in proportions. Psyche, brain and nerves, glands and hormones, lymphocytes, and cytokines are synchronized, they interact with each other, and the harmony between these systems involves and regulates cardiovascular functions.