Transduction and Cellular Mechanism in Sensory Receptors

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Progress in Brain Research, 74 1988

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Progress in Brain Research: Transduction and Cellular Mechanisms in Sensory Receptors
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List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Section 1: Mechanisms of Transduction I
Chapter 1. Ionic mechanisms in hair cells of the mammalian cochlea
Chapter 2. Mechano-electrical transduction of the chick hair cell
Chapter 3. On the ionic mechanism of hair cells. A comparative study
Chapter 4. Classification of a calcium conductance in cold receptors
Chapter 5. Calcium channel blockers and Merkel cells
Chapter 6. Responsiveness of slowly adapting cutaneous mechanoreceptors after close arterial infusion of neomycin in cats
Chapter 7. Evidence that the Merkel cell is not the transducer in the mechanosensory Merkel cell-neurite complex
Mechanisms of Transduction I: Summary and discussions
Section 2: Mechanisms of Transduction II
Chapter 8. Mechano-electric transduction in the slowly adapting cutaneous afferent units of frogs
Chapter 9. The ultrastructure and receptor transduction mechanism of dentine
Chapter 10. Electrophysiological analysis of chemosensitive neurons within the area postrema of the rat
Chapter 11. Responses of muscle spindles depend on their history of activation and movement
Chapter 12. Influence of adrenaline and hypoxia on rat muscle receptors in vitro
Chapter 13. Dynamic response characteristics of the ampullae of Lorenzini to thermal and electrical stimuli
Mechanisms of Transduction II: Summary
Section 3: Visceral Receptors, Chemoreception and Molecular Aspects of Receptor Function
Chapter 14. Comparative anatomy of vertebrate electroreceptors
Chapter 15. Cutaneous electroreceptors in the platypus: a new mammalian receptor
Chapter 16. Structure and functional anatomy of visceroreceptors in the mammalian respiratory system
Chapter 17. The effect of gastro-entero-pancreatic hormones on the activity of vagal hepatic afferent fibres
Chapter 18. The responses of chemoreceptors with medullated and non-medullated fibres to chemical substances and the mechanical hypothesis
Chapter 19. Mechanisms of chemotransmission in the mammalian carotid body
Chapter 20. Multiple messenger candidates and marker substances in the mammalian Merkel cel-axon complex: a light and electron microscopic immunohistochemical study
Chapter 21. Immunohistochemical evidence for a co-transmitter role of opioid peptides in primary sensory neurons
Chapter 22. Chemical factors in the sensitization of cutaneous nociceptors
Visceral Receptors, Chemoreception and Molecular Aspects of Receptor Function: Summary
Section 4: Mechanoreceptors and Structural Aspects of Receptor Function
Chapter 23. The cortical lattice: a highly ordered system of subsurface filaments in guinea pig cochlear outer hair cells
Chapter 24. Ruffini corpuscle - a stretch receptor in the connective tissue of the skin and locomotion apparatus
Chapter 25. The site and distribution of mechanoreceptors in the periodontal ligament of the cat represented in the mesencephalic nucleus and their possible regeneration following tooth extraction
Chapter 26. Functional characteristics of afferent C fibres from tooth pulp and periodontal ligament
Chapter 27. Reinnervation of skin by polymodal nociceptors in rats
Chapter 28. Morphological features of thin sensory afferent fibers: a new interpretation of 'nociceptor' function
Chapter 29. The reinnervation of denervated skin
Chapter 30. Spread of skin deformation and mechanoreceptor discharge
Chapter 31. Sensory receptors in a mammalian skin-nerve in vitro preparation
Chapter 32. Regeneration of retinal ganglion cell axons in adult mammals
Chapter 33. Morphology and response characteristics of the cercus-to-giant interneuron system in locusts to low-frequency sound
Mechanoreceptors and Structural Aspects of Receptor Function: Summary
Section 5: Modulation and Efferent Control of Transduction
Chapter 34. Do sensory cells in the ear have a motile function?
Chapter 35. Measurement of intracochlear current flow
Chapter 36. Localization of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-diphosphate on the stereocilia of cochlear hair cells
Chapter 37. Efferent modulation of penile mechanoreceptor activity
Chapter 38. Modulation of testicular polymodal receptor activities
Chapter 39. Psychophysical and neurophysiological studies of chemically induced cutaneous pain and itch. The case of the missing nociceptor
Chapter 40. Possible role of capillary permeability in the excitation of sensory receptors by chemical substances
Chapter 41. The expression of sensory receptors on regenerating and regenerated cutaneous C fibres
Modulation and Efferent Control of Transduction: Summary
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