Chemoreceptors and Chemoreceptor Reflexes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Molecular and Ionic Mechanisms of Chemoreception and Chemotransduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Transmitter Dynamics in the Carotid Body

      • S. Fidone, C. Gonzales, B. Dinger, L. Stensaas

      Pages 3-14

   3. Does an Inward-Rectifying K Channel Regulate Type-I Cell Response to Hypoxia?

      • M. A. Delpiano, J. Hescheler

      Pages 15-19

   4. Selective Effect of Reduced Extracellular pH on Potassium Channels in Type-I Cells from the Neonatal Rat Carotid Body

      • C. Peers

      Pages 21-27

   5. Calcium Channel Activation and Neural Output During Hypoxic Chemotransduction in the Carotid Body

      • M. Shirahata, R. S. Fitzgerald

      Pages 29-34

   6. Involvement of Na+:H+ and Na+:Ca++ Antiporters in the Chemotransduction of Acidic Stimuli

      • A. Rocher, A. Obeso, B. Herreros, C. Gonzalez

      Pages 35-41

   7. The Action of Carbon Dioxide in Central and Peripheral Chemoreceptors

      • R. W. Torrance

      Pages 43-48

   8. Respiratory Responses to Common Carotid Occlusion in the Rat: Evidence for Involvement of Adenosine

      • E. C. Monteiro, J. A. Ribeiro

      Pages 49-56

   9. Participation of cAmp in Low pO2 Chemotransduction in the Carotid Body

      • T. Pérez-Gracía, L. Almarez, C. Gonzalez

      Pages 57-65

   10. Lectin Histochemistry on Carotid Body Tissue in Normoxic and Long-Term Hypoxic Rats

       • S. Hellström, J.-M. Pequignot, M. Hellström

       Pages 67-70

3. Arterial Chemoreceptors — Biochemistry and Electrophysiology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Phosphorescence and Fluorescence Imaging: New Tools for the Study of Carotid Body Function

      • W. L. Rumsey, R. Iturriaga, D. F. Wilson, S. Lahiri, D. Spergel

      Pages 73-79

   3. Erythropoietin-Associated Antigen in the Human Carotid Body

      • M. H. Blessing, E. Dumitrescu, D. v. Kortzfleisch

      Pages 81-84

   4. Efferent Innervation of the Carotid Body and Carotid Sinus in the Guinea Pig

      • W. Kummer

      Pages 85-89

   5. The Catecholamine Metabolism in Rat Carotid Body: Is there any Efferent Regulation during Long-Term Hypercapnia ?

      • J. M. Pequignot, S. Hellström, M. Hellström

      Pages 91-94

   6. Are Chemoreceptor Neurons Dopaminergic?

      • W. Kummer

      Pages 95-98

   7. Biochemical Analysis of Neutral Endopeptidase Activity of the Cat Carotid Body

      • G. K. Kumar, N. S. Cherniack, N. R. Prabhakar

      Pages 99-102

   8. Analysis of Chemoreceptor Responses to Tachykinins in Rats, Cats, and Rabbits

      • N. R. Prabhakar, M. Runold, N. S. Cherniack, G. K. Kumar

      Pages 103-106

   9. Influence of Hypercapnia on Rabbit Intrapulmonary Neuroepithelial Bodies: Microfluorimetrical and Morphometrical Study

      • A. Tierens, M. Decramer, J. Lauweryns

      Pages 107-110

This volume records the papers presented in Warsaw on the meeting of the International Society of Arterial Chemoreception (LS. A. C. ) organized as a Satellite Symposium of the XXXI International Congress of the Union of Physiological Sciences (I. U. P. S. ) in Helsinki in July 1989. It is a 30 years old tradition to hold periodically international meetings on recent developments in chemoreceptor research and to exchange information between those of us interested in chemoreception. The first meeting was organized by B. B. Lloyd in Oxford in 1959. Later on, similar international meetings were held at irregular intervals. In 1966, R. W. Torrance organized the second meeting again in Oxford. In 1973, the third meeting was organized in Bristol (U. K. ) by M. J. Purves. In 1974, a fourth meeting combined with the XXVI I. U. P. S. Congress in Delhi was organized by A. S. Paintal in Srinagar (Kashmir, India). In 1976, H. Acker organized the fifth meeting in Dortmund (F. R. G. ), and in 1979, C. Belmonte in Valla­ dolid (Spain) organized the sixth international meeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of Fernando de Castro publishing his classical work on the structure and possible function of the carotid body. In 1982, the seventh meeting was due to D. J. Pallot in Leicester (U. K. ), in 1985 - the eighth one due to A. J.

• biochemistry
• development
• metabolism
• physiology
• respiration
• tissue

• Max-Planck-Institut für Systemphysiologie, Dortmund, Federal Republic of Germany

  Helmut Acker

• Medical Academy, Warsaw, Poland

  Andrzej Trzebski

• University College, Dublin, Ireland

  Ronan G. O’Regan

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