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How does the vasomotor center control peripheral resistance?

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Answer: This is simple. It continually sends sympathetic impulses to the smooth muscles in the arteriole walls.

To Explain: Keeping them in a state of tonic contraction, This will help maintain the peripheral resistance associated with normal blood pressure.

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