Advances in Vagal Afferent Neurobiology
- Provides a much-needed comprehensive review of the development, neurochemistry, anatomy, biophysics, pharmacology and physiology of the vagal afferent nerves
- Contains chapters that connect many aspects of vagal sensory nerve biology from the terminals in the visceral tissues to the neural pathways within the central nervous system
- Presents the unique embryological history of the vagal sensory neurons
- Details experimental techniques used to investigate the development, morphology, electrophysiology, and reflex function of the vagal afferent nerves
Advances in Vagal Afferent Neurobiology brings together more than thirty of the world's leading neuroscientists to present a coherent summary of vagal afferent neuroscience obtained within the body's organ systems.
Advances in Vagal Afferent Neurobiology encourages a cross-fertilization of ideas that provides new insights and increased focus on this important topic.
Advances in Vagal Afferent Neurobiology contains chapters that deal with vagal nerves in the central nervous system, lungs, esophagus, heart, and gastrointestinal tract.
It also covers critical aspects ranging from vagus nerves in the embryo to vagus nerves in the adult, and considers activity in individual neurons to whole animal studies of the reflexes and sensations such activity engenders.
Each chapter provides an overview of a particular area of vagal afferent neuroscience, and, in many cases, offers details pertaining to specific experiments and techniques.
By painting vagal afferent biology with the broadest brush possible, this text offers a unique and useful resource for the student, as well as for the established neuroscientist interested in the visceral nervous system.
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 andTerminals
- 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 Brainstem: Implication for Airway Function
- Organ Specific Afferent Nerve
- 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
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