Enteroceptors

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Cardiovascular Receptors

   • A. S. Paintal

   Pages 1-45

3. Arterial Chemoreceptors

   • Alan Howe, Eric Neil

   Pages 47-80

4. Receptors of the Lungs and Airways

   • Marianne Fillenz, J. G. Widdicombe

   Pages 81-112

5. Abdominal Visceral Receptors

   • Barry F. Leek

   Pages 113-160

6. Central Thermoreceptors and Thermoregulation

   • Richard F. Hellon

   Pages 161-186

7. Receptors Subserving Hunger and Thirst

   • Bengt Andersson

   Pages 187-216

8. Back Matter

   Pages 217-250

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This series of concise essays on Enteroceptors is designed to interest the gradu­ ate student and to stimulate research. Even before the advent of electrophysiological studies, classical physiological techniques had shown the essence of the role of many of the enteroceptors. Thus the monitoring influence of the cardiovascular mechanoreceptors on the heart and on the systemic vascular resistance, the role of the arterial chemoreceptors in hypoxia and the influence of the so-called Hering Breuer stretch receptors on breathing had all been documented. The pioneering work of ADRIAN, BRONK, ZOTTERMAN and others using electroneurographic methods gave a remarkable impetus to the study of the enteroceptors themselves. Nowhere is this better exemplificd than in the case of the afferent end organs of the heart, the respiratory tract and the abdominal and pelvic viscera. The remarkable development of our knowledge of the multiplicity of types of nerve endings from the thoracic and abdominal viscera acquired from electrophysiological studies has refocussed our attention on the histological details of the sites of such receptors. Once more research on the structural side has been accelerated by the question raised by evidence obtained from functional studies. This is well illustrated in the case of the carotid body, where the long cherished belief that the innervated epithelioid cells constitute the chemoreceptor complex is now under attack. The detailed consideration of the functional characteristics of each entero­ ceptor considered has not occupied our whole attention.

• Rezeptor
• attention
• breathing
• cardiovascular
• cells
• development
• heart
• histology
• hypoxia
• monitoring
• research
• resistance
• thermoregulation

• Department of Physiology, Veterinärhögskolan, Stockholm 50, Sweden

  Bengt Andersson

• University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, Great Britain

  Marianne Fillenz

• National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7, Great Britain

  Richard F. Hellon

• Department of Physiology, University of London, Chelsea College of Science & Technology, London SW3, Great Britain

  Alan Howe

• Department of Veterinary Physiology, Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Great Britain

  Barry F. Leek

• Department of Physiology, Windeyer Building, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London W1, Great Britain

  Eric Neil

• Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi 7, India

  A. S. Paintal

• Univesity Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, Great Britain

  J. G. Widdicombe

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