Chemoreception
Subtitle: from cellular signaling to functional plasticity
By: edited by Jean-Marc Pequignot ... [et al.].
Contributors: Pequignot, Jean-Marc.
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 536
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 633
Subjects: Arteries -- physiology; Chemoreceptors -- physiology; Carotid Body -- physiology; Cell Hypoxia -- physiology; Oxygen -- metabolism
Description: This book presents up to date major aspects of the chemoreceptor pathway from molecular and cellular signaling processes in the carotid body and other oxygen-sensing structures to central integration of chemosensory inputs and systemic implications. Because sustained changes in oxygen homeostasis are able to induce morphofunctional remodeling, which remains poorly understood but may provide further ways of research in physiology and pathophysiology, two sessions were devoted to the mechanisms involved in the processes of plasticity induced by long-term or intermittent hypoxia during the perinatal period or at adulthood.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.