Environmental physiology /
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford, England ; Elmsford, NY :
Pergamon Press,
[1981]
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| Series: | Advances in physiological sciences ;
volume 18 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Inside Front Cover; Copyright; FOREWORD; PREFACE; Chapter 1: CIRCADIAN SYSTEM PROPERTIES; Publisher Summary; 1 FREERUNNING AND ENTRAINED RHYTHMS IN ANIMALS; 2 A SYSTEM OF COUPLED OSCILLATORS; 3 FREERUNNING AND ENTRAINED RHYTHMS IN MAN; 4 INTERNAL DESYNCHRONIZATION; 5 CONCLUDING REMARKS; Chapter 2: ANALYSING THERMOREGULATION WITH THERMODES AND ELECTRODES; Publisher Summary; Lesion making; Thermode studies; Microelectrode studies; Chapter 3: OSMOREGULATION, INTRODUCTORY QUESTION: CAN WE OUTLINE THE NEURAL NETWORK FOR OSMOREGULATION IN VERTEBRATES?
- Publisher SummaryChapter 4: CONTROL OF SECRETION IN REPTILIAN SALT GLANDS; Publisher Summary; THE SALT GLANDS; LEVELS OF FUNCTIONAL CONTROL; FUTURE RESEARCH; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 5: PROPERTIES OF THE BODY FLUIDS AFFECTING NASAL SALT GLAND SECRETION AND URINE FORMATION IN BIRDS; Publisher Summary; INTRODUCTION; METHODS; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; PERSPECTIVES; Chapter 6: CENTRAL NEURAL SUBSTRATES FOR OSMOREGULATION IN THE MAMMAL; Publisher Summary; ANATOMICAL LOCALIZATION; NATURE OF THE OSMORECEPTOR; FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION; SUMMARY.
- Chapter 7: IS THE CONTROL OF SODIUM EXCRETION PARTLY DUE TO SIGNALS FROM RECEPTORS LOCATED IN THE LEFT ATRIUM OF THE HEART?Publisher Summary; Chapter 8: CONCLUDING REMARKS ON OSMOREGULATION; Publisher Summary; Chapter 9: REGULATION OF THE SLEEP-WAKING RHYTHM BY ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENDOGENOUS FACTORS; Publisher Summary; Chapter 10: THE SLEEP PROCESS: CIRCADIAN AND HOMEOSTATIC ASPECTS; Publisher Summary; 1 Sleep as a circadian rhythm; 2 Sleep as a homeostatic process; 3 Sleep: a restitutional process?; Chapter 11: THE SEROTONINERGIC HYPOTHESIS OF SLEEP REVISITED; Publisher Summary.
- Chapter 12: PROPERTIES OF SLEEP-PROMOTING FACTOR S DERIVED FROM HUMAN URINEPublisher Summary; 1) Outline of purification procedures; 2 Effects of Urinary Factor S on the Sleep Cycle of Cats; 3) Effects of Urinary Factor S on Sleep in Rabbits; 4) Effects of Urinary Factor S on Sleep of Rats; 5) Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 13: PINEAL VASOTOCIN AND SLEEP; Publisher Summary; Introduction; Melatonin as releasing hormone; Sleep deprivation; REM sleep-dependent release; Mechanism of action(see also Addendum); Dreaming; REM sleep ontogenesis; Narcolepsy; Conclusions; Addendum.
- Chapter 14: THE CONTRIBUTION OF WARM RECEPTORS TO THE REGULATION OF SLEEP-WAKING CYCLESPublisher Summary; Chapter 15: INTERRELATION BETWEEN SLEEP AND TEMPERATURE REGULATION; Publisher Summary; Chapter 16: REGULARITY IN THE PATTERNS OF UNSYNCHRONIZED CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS IN MAN; Publisher Summary; Chapter 17: CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE REGULATION OF THE SLEEP-WAKING RHYTHM BY ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENDOGENOUS FACTORS; Publisher Summary; Monoamines; Sleep factor and arginine vasotocin (AVT); Thermoregulation; Circadian oscillators.