The Airways (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: December 1, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780824777791
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Physiology; Respiratory medicine; Regulation; Respiratory Diseases; Respiratory System Physiology; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Respiratory organs; Health/Fitness; Respiration; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Innervation; Congresses
First sentence: The autonomic neuroeffector junction is not a "synapse" where there are both pre- and postsynaptic specializations typified by the skeletal neuromuscular junction or presynaptic terminals in ganglion cells, but a "junction" where transmitter is released en passage from varicosities in extensive branching terminal nerve fibers (Fig. 1).