Advances in vagal afferent neurobiology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, FL :
Taylor & Francis/CRC Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Frontiers in neuroscience (Boca Raton, Fla.)
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Table of Contents:
- Development and plasticity
- The embryology of vagal sensory neurons
- Vagal afferent neurons : neurotrophic factors and epigenetic influences
- Vagal sensory ganglion neurons
- Voltage-gated ion channels in vagal afferent neurons
- Electrophysiological studies of target-identified vagal afferent cell bodies
- Vagal sensory nerve terminals
- Advances in neural tracing of vagal afferent nerves and terminals
- Mechanotransduction by vagal tension receptors in the upper gut
- Chemical transduction in vagal afferent nerve endings
- Connection in the CNS
- Synaptic transmission in the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS)
- Nitroxergic modulation in the NTS : implications for cardiovascular function
- Monoaminergic modulation in the rainstem : implication for airway function
- Organ-specific afferent nerves
- Bronchopulmonary vagal afferent nerves
- Vagal afferents innervating the gastrointestinal tract
- Cardiac vagal afferent nerves
- Vagal reflexes and sensation
- Vagal afferent nerve stimulated reflexes in the GI tract
- Reflexes initiated by activation of the vagal afferent nerves innervating the airways and lungs
- Axon reflex and neurogenic inflammation in vagal afferent nerves
- Vagal afferents and visceral pain
- Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve for the treatment of epilepsy