Arterial Chemoreception

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Adenine Nucleotide Content in the Rabbit Carotid Body In Vitro: Effects of Hypoxia and Metabolic Inhibitors....Pages 3-9
Role of Protein Kinase C in the Carotid Body Signal Transduction....Pages 10-13
Spectrophotometric and Fluorometric Analysis of the Rat Carotid Body Under Hypoxia....Pages 14-17
Intracellular pH of Cultured Carotid Body Cells....Pages 18-23
Immunohistochemical and In Situ Hybridization. Evidence for a Calcium-Binding Protein in the Sinus Nerve....Pages 24-30
Biophysical Studies of Cells from the Carotid Body of the Rabbit....Pages 31-43
Ionic Mechanisms of the Chemoreception Process in Type I Cells of the Carotid Body....Pages 44-57
Ionic Currents in Carotid Body Type I Cells and the Effects of Hypoxia and NaCN....Pages 58-62
Effects of Chemoexcitatory Agents on K + Currents of Isolated Type I Cells from Neonatal Rat Carotid Body....Pages 63-69
Extracellular K + as an Interneuronal Coupler in the Carotid Body....Pages 70-75
Electrical Activity of Mouse Carotid Body as Monitored by the Fluorescent Probe diS-C 3 -5: Effects of Different Agents....Pages 76-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Biochemical Studies on the Release of Catecholamines from the Rat Carotid Body In Vitro....Pages 87-91
Regulation of the Release of Dopamine and Norepinephrine from Rabbit Carotid Body....Pages 92-99
Long-Term Hypoxia and Hypercapnia in the Carotid Body: A Review....Pages 100-114
Catecholamines in the Carotid Body....Pages 115-123
The Role of Acetylcholine in the Chemoreception of Hypoxia by the Carotid Body....Pages 124-130
Co-localization of Neuroactive Agents in the Carotid Body of the Cat....Pages 131-136
In Vitro Degradation of Substance P by the Carotid Body Proteases....Pages 137-142
Proenkephalin-Derived Peptides in the Carotid Body....Pages 143-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Vasopressinergic Influence in the Cat Carotid Body....Pages 151-156
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Effects of Different Stimuli and Transmitters on Glomus Cell Membranes and Intercellular Communications....Pages 157-167
Use of Selective Antagonists for Studying the Role of Putative Transmitters in Chemoreception....Pages 168-173
Endogenous Adenosine Tonically Excites Respiration Mediated by Carotid Body Chemoreceptors in the Rat....Pages 174-180
Calcium Antagonists Stimulate Carotid Body Chemoreceptors....Pages 181-185
Lack of Effect of MPTP on a Peripheral Dopaminergic Structure: The Carotid Body....Pages 186-191
The Mechanism of Action of Tachykinins in the Carotid Body....Pages 192-198
The Carotid Body and Almitrine Bismesylate....Pages 199-206
Almitrine Bismesylate and the Carotid Body: An Ultrastructural Study....Pages 207-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Membrane Properties of Cat Carotid Neurons after Peripheral Regeneration....Pages 215-219
The Functional Role and Central Connections of the Carotid Body of the Rat....Pages 220-228
Tachykininergic Axons in the Guinea Pig Carotid Body: Origin, Ultrastructure, and Coexistence with Other Peptides....Pages 229-234
Hypoxia and Hypercapnia Deplete Clear Vesicles but Not Dense-Cored Vesicles in the Carotid Body’s Sensory Nerves....Pages 235-242
An Electronic Gating Circuit for Separation of Chemoreceptor Activity from Baroreceptor Activity....Pages 243-246
Information Content of Arterial Chemoreceptor Discharge Pattern....Pages 247-253
Flow Detection by the Carotid Body....Pages 254-259
How Real Is the Relation of Arterial Po 2 to Chemoreceptor Activity?....Pages 260-269
Effects of Hypoxia, Potassium and Other Stimuli on the Discharge of the Carotid Body....Pages 270-278
Postnatal Resetting of the Hypoxic Sensitivity of Aortic Chemoreceptors in the Lamb....Pages 279-284
Carotid Chemoreceptor Recording in the Newborn Piglet....Pages 285-289
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Some Effects of Chronic Stimulation on the Rat Carotid Body....Pages 293-301
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Structural Changes in the Glomus Caroticum Due to Arteriosclerosis....Pages 302-308
Calibre of Arteriovenous Blood Vessels in the Cat Carotid Body: An Assessment Using Latex Microspheres....Pages 309-315
Dopaminergic Ventilatory Inhibition in Relation to Chemoreception Sensitization in the Rat....Pages 316-322
Mechanism and Site of Effect of Chronic Erythropoietic Stimuli on Carotid Body....Pages 323-329
Carotid Sinus Receptors Participate in Glucose Homeostasis....Pages 330-336
Carotid Body Contribution to Hypoxic Ventilatory Responses in Euthermic and Hibernating Ground Squirrels....Pages 337-343
Does the Ventilatory Response to Hypoxia Measure Chemoreceptor-Mediated Drive in Humans?....Pages 344-349
Pulmonary Vagal Afferents Involved in the Hypoxic Breathing without Arterial Chemoreceptors....Pages 350-356
Plasticity of Ventilatory Chemoreflexes....Pages 357-362
Progesterone Protects against Hypoxic Ventilatory Depression in Male Rats....Pages 363-367
Possible Pitfalls in the Search for Arterial and Central Chemoreception in Respiration....Pages 368-373
Serotonin in the Human Infant Carotid Body: Normal and Pathological States....Pages 374-380
Chemostimulation during Bilateral Carotid Occlusion in the Rat....Pages 381-387
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
Sympathetic Oxygen Chemoreflex and Chemosensitive Responses....Pages 391-397
Effects of Hypoxia on Catecholamine Storage and Release in Rabbit Superior Cervical Ganglion....Pages 398-403
Involvement of Dopaminergic SIF Cells of Rat Superior Cervical Ganglion in Response to Chemoreceptor Stimuli....Pages 404-418
Neurotransmitters in Laryngeal Nerve Paraganglia: A Morphological and Biochemical Study....Pages 419-424
Hypertrophy of Abdominal Vagal Paraganglia Following Chronic Hypoxia: Compared with Carotid Body....Pages 425-431
Effects of Hypoxia on Isolated Pulmonary Neuroepithelial Body Cells In Vitro....Pages 432-437
Membrane Hyperpolarization in Hypoxic Vasorelaxation....Pages 438-445
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
Is the Cellular Thiol-Disulfide System Involved in Oxygen Sensitivity of Arterial Contraction?....Pages 446-451
Oxygen-Sensing Mechanisms in the Macrophage and Erythropoietin Production....Pages 452-456
Contribution of Renal Chemoreception to the Production of Erythropoietin....Pages 457-462
Back Matter....Pages 463-475