by Bengt Andersson, Marianne Fillenz, Richard F. Hellon, Alan Howe, Barry F. Leek, Eric Neil, A.S. Paintal, J.G. Widdicombe ; edited by E. Neil.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1972
SERIES
Series Title
Handbook of sensory physiology, 3 / 1.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1 Cardiovascular Receptors --; 2 Arterial Chemoreceptors --; 3 Receptors of the Lungs and Airways --; 4 Abdominal Visceral Receptors --; 5 Central Thermoreceptors and Thermoregulation --; 6 Receptors Subserving Hunger and Thirst --; Author Index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This series of concise essays on Enteroceptors is designed to interest the gradu ate student and to stimulate research. Even before the advent of electrophysiological studies, classical physiological techniques had shown the essence of the role of many of the enteroceptors. Thus the monitoring influence of the cardiovascular mechanoreceptors on the heart and on the systemic vascular resistance, the role of the arterial chemoreceptors in hypoxia and the influence of the so-called Hering Breuer stretch receptors on breathing had all been documented. The pioneering work of ADRIAN, BRONK, ZOTTERMAN and others using electroneurographic methods gave a remarkable impetus to the study of the enteroceptors themselves. Nowhere is this better exemplificd than in the case of the afferent end organs of the heart, the respiratory tract and the abdominal and pelvic viscera. The remarkable development of our knowledge of the multiplicity of types of nerve endings from the thoracic and abdominal viscera acquired from electrophysiological studies has refocussed our attention on the histological details of the sites of such receptors. Once more research on the structural side has been accelerated by the question raised by evidence obtained from functional studies. This is well illustrated in the case of the carotid body, where the long cherished belief that the innervated epithelioid cells constitute the chemoreceptor complex is now under attack. The detailed consideration of the functional characteristics of each entero ceptor considered has not occupied our whole attention.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Medicine.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QP351
Book number
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B934
1972
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
by Bengt Andersson, Marianne Fillenz, Richard F. Hellon, Alan Howe, Barry F. Leek, Eric Neil, A.S. Paintal, J.G. Widdicombe ; edited by E. Neil.