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Title

Cellular mechanisms of sensory processing : the somatosensory system / edited by Laszlo Urban.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Urban, Laszlo, 1951-
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division.
• NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing (1993 : Wye, England)

Description

xi, 502 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

NATO ASI series. Series H, Cell biology ; vol. 79

Uniform Title

NATO ASI series. Series H, Cell biology ; v. 79.

Subjects

• Sensory receptors > Congresses
• Afferent pathways > Congresses
• Mammals > Sensory perception
• Skin > Innervation > Congresses
• Ganglia, Sensory > Congresses

Note

• "Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
• "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing, held at Wye, Kent, U.K., April 1-3, 1993"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Diversity of Somatic Spikes in Dorsal Root Ganglion Cells: Implications for Development, Function and Plasticity / Lorne M. Mendell -- Ion Channels Underlying Transduction and Adaptation in Mechanoreceptors / Andrew S. French -- Signal Transduction Processes in Sensorimotor Neurones of the Enteric Nervous System / Annmarie Surprenant -- Modulation of Voltage Dependent Calcium Channels by GABA[subscript B] Receptors and G Proteins in Cultured Rat Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons: Relevance to Transmitter Release and Its Modulation / Annette C. Dolphin, Anatole Menon-Johansson, Veronica Campbell, Nick Berrow and Marva I. Sweeney -- Signal Integration in the Axon Tree Due to Branch Point Filtering Action / S. David Stoney, Jr. -- Polymodality in Nociceptive Neurons: Experimental Models of Chemotransduction / Carlos Belmonte, Juana Gallar, Laura G. Lopez-Briones and Miguel A. Pozo -- Chemical Excitation and Sensitization of Nociceptors / Peter W. Reeh.
• Local Effector Functions of Primary Afferent Nerve Fibers / Peter Holzer -- Exitatory Amino Acid Receptors in the In Vitro Mammalian Spinal Cord / Aharon Lev-Tov and M. Pinco -- Modulation of NMDA Currents in Hippocampal Neurons / Piotr Bregestovski, Igor Medina and Yezekiel Ben-Ari -- Excitatory Amino Acid Receptors in the Spinal Cord / David Lodge and Ann Bond -- Excitatory Amino Acid Release in Dorsal Root Ganglion Cultures / Fang Liu, Ksenija Jeftinija and Srdija Jeftinija -- The Involvement of Excitatory Amino Acids and Their Receptors in the Spinal Processing of Nociceptive Input from the Normal and Inflamed Knee Joint in the Rat / Hans-Georg Schaible, Volker Neugebauer and Thomas Lucke -- Tachykinin Receptors and Their Antagonists / Carlo Alberto Maggi and Alessandro Lecci -- Synaptic Activation by the Release of Peptides / J. L. Henry and V. Radhakrishnan.
• TRH and Substance P Increase Rat Motoneurone Excitability through a Block of a Novel K[superscript +] Conductance / A. Nistri, N. D. Fisher and G. Baranauskas -- Influences of the Chemical Environment on Peripheral Afferent Neurons / Andy Dray -- Silent Primary Afferents / Robert F. Schmidt and H.-G. Schaible -- Sensory Neurons and Plasticity: The Role of Immediate Early Genes / Carmen De Felipe, Robert Jenkins and Stephen P. Hunt -- Molecular Biology of Dynorphin Gene Expression in Relationship to Spinal Cord Processing of Pain / Michael J. Iadarola and Donna J. Messerschmith -- Regulation of Cellular Phenotype in the Nociceptive Pathway / Eberhard Weihe and Martin K.-H. Schafer -- Altered Functions of Neuropeptides and Nitric Oxide in Somatosensory Afferents and Spinal Cord after Peripheral Nerve Lesions in the Rat / Zsuzsanna Wiesenfeld-Hallin and Xiao-Jun Xu.
• Hyperexcitability in the Spinal Dorsal Horn: Cooperation of Neuropeptides and Excitatory Amino Acids / Laszlo Urban, Stephen W. N. Thompson, Istvan Nagy and Andy Dray -- The Role of Nitric Oxide in Hyperalgesia / Stephen T. Meller and G. F. Gebhart -- Dynamic Changes in Dorsal Horn Neurons / William D. Willis, Jr. -- Postsynaptic Changes During Sustained Primary Afferent Fiber Stimulation as Revealed by C-FOS Immunohistochemistry in the Rat Spinal Cord / Catherine Abbadie, Prisca Honore and Jean-Marie Besson -- Structural Plasticity of Primary Afferent Terminals in the Adult Dorsal Horn - Regenerative Sprouting Induced by Peripheral Nerve Injury / Clifford J. Woolf.

ISBN

• 0387576258 (New York : acid-free paper)
• 3540576258 (Berlin : acid-free paper)

LCCN

93046741

OCLC

ocm29548506

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries