Plastcity of Motoneuronal Connections

Name: Plastcity of Motoneuronal Connections
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ISBN: 978-0-444-81428-9

A. Wernig(Herausgeber*in)

Elsevier (Verlag)

Erschienen am 19. Dezember 1991

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514 Seiten

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This book focusses on a single nerve cell - the motoneuron, and includes the muscle and the spinal circuitry involved in spinal motor programming. The volume constitutes contributions from outstanding specialists who were eager to contribute to an overall view of the peripheral motor system. Accordingly, the articles cover a wide range, including myogenesis and implantation of myogenic cells, plasticity and reinnervation of individual endplates, the motor unit, formation and functional plasticity of Ia and other afferents' connections to the motoneuron, and the circuitry responsible for spinal locomotion. Finally there are some new aspects of rehabilitation in patients with spinal cord injuries, which have resulted from the recent discovery that the isolated spinal cord in the mammal is capable of learning. The book is an excellent collection of representative articles from many different fields which nevertheless focus around the motoneuron. To assist non-experts in the fields, the articles are grouped into sections, and short introductions point out new aspects and apparently controversial results or conflicting interpretations which need to be solved in the future.

This book focusses on a single nerve cell - the motoneuron, and includes the muscle and the spinal circuitry involved in spinal motor programming. The volume constitutes contributions from outstanding specialists who were eager to contribute to an overall view of the peripheral motor system. Accordingly, the articles cover a wide range, including myogenesis and implantation of myogenic cells, plasticity and reinnervation of individual endplates, the motor unit, formation and functional plasticity of Ia and other afferents' connections to the motoneuron, and the circuitry responsible for spinal locomotion. Finally there are some new aspects of rehabilitation in patients with spinal cord injuries, which have resulted from the recent discovery that the isolated spinal cord in the mammal is capable of learning. The book is an excellent collection of representative articles from many different fields which nevertheless focus around the motoneuron. To assist non-experts in the fields, the articles are grouped into sections, and short introductions point out new aspects and apparently controversial results or conflicting interpretations which need to be solved in the future.

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Preface. Section I. Muscle. 1. The satellite cell: an overview (H. Schmalbruch). 2. Retroviral vectors as probes of muscle development (S.M. Hughes and H. Blau). 3. Implantation of myogenic cells into muscles of adult mice (A. Irintchev, A. Wernig, A. Hartling, K. Zimmerman and A. Starzinski-Powith). 4. Synaptic modulations in muscle conditioning (I. Mussini and U. Carraro). 5. Quantitative aspects of muscle innervation (W. Zenker and E.P. Scheidegger). Section II. Endplate plasticity. 6. Peanut agglutinin as a probe for studying remodeling and differentiation of synaptic extracellular matrix at the frog neuromuscular junction (C.P. Ko). 7. Focal specialization for stability and plasticity at neuromuscular junctions of young and old mice (N. Robbins). 8. The plasticity and stability of neuromuscular synapses in living mice (R.J. Balice-Gordon and J.W. Lichtman). 9. Endplate and motor unit remodeling in vertebrate muscles (A. Wernig, T.F. Salvini, B. Langenfeld-Oster, A. Irintchev and M. Dorlochter). 10. Activity-dependent adaptation in neuromuscular systems: comparative observations (H.L. Atwood, P.V. Nguyen and A.J. Mercier). 11. Postsynaptic folds and neuromuscular disease (C.R. Slater, P.R. Lyons, T.J. Walls and S.A. Bradley). 12. Non-pathological synaptic mechanisms in diseases of the neuromuscular junction (P.C. Molenaar, J.J. Plomp, G. Th.H. Van Kempen, Y. Graus and M.H. De Baets). Section III. ACh receptor and other synaptic features. 13. Regulation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor at the rat neuromuscular junction (V. Witzemann). 14. Fast desensitization of transmitter activated channels and synaptic transmission (Ch. Franke, H. Hatt and J. Dudel). 15. Properties of acetylcholine receptor channels in isolated skeletal muscle fibres in culture (F. Ruzzier, F. Grohovaz and P. Lorenzon). 16. Effect of denervation and regeneration on the stability of junctional ACh receptors in mature frog muscles (A.D. Grinnell and J. Do). 17. Active zones and plasticity of motor nerve terminals (L.A. Kashapova, D.A. Moshkov and E.N. Bezgina). 18. Calcium channels in the neuromuscular junction: functional linkage between impulse transmission and fine structural alterations in the motor end plate (B. Csillik, E. Csillik-Knyiha and L. Siklos). 19. Anticholinesterase drugs and the mechanisms underlying neuromuscular transmission (M. Kordas, M. Scuka and R. Zorec). Section IV. Motor unit plasticity. 20. Physiological correlates of synaptic competition during synapse elimination in frog neuromuscular junctions (R. Dunia and A.A. Herrera). 21. An examination of use-dependent plasticity of neuromuscular junctions in light of neurotrophic theory (R.R. Ribchester and M.J. Mijnster). 22. Motoneuronal branching and motor size after complete and partial nerve injuries. (T. Gordon, J. T. de Zepetnek, V. Rafuse and S. Erdebil). 23. Action potentials and contraction forces of human motor units in chronic partial denervation (R. Dengler, A. Konstanzer, J. Elek, M.

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