Nerve Physiology

Physiology of the sympathetic nerve ending.

Since the discovery by von Euler (1956) that the substance released from the postganglionic sympathetic nerve was indeed noradrenaline, a vast amount of research has led subsequently to an understanding of some of the physiological processes at the sympathetic nerve ending. The processes whereby the neurotransmitter is synthesized, stored and released, activates specific adrenoceptors located p...

Angina Pectoris. Nerve Pathways, Physiology, Symptomatology and Treatment

TRANSLATIONAL PHYSIOLOGY Perceptual Consequences of Disrupted Auditory Nerve Activity

Zeng, Fan-Gang, Ying-Yee Kong, Henry J. Michalewski, and Arnold Starr. Perceptual consequences of disrupted auditory nerve activity. J Neurophysiol 93: 3050–3063, 2005. First published December 22, 2004; doi:10.1152/jn.00985.2004. Perceptual consequences of disrupted auditory nerve activity were systematically studied in 21 subjects who had been clinically diagnosed with auditory neuropathy (AN...

Ethanol: Novel Actions on Nerve Cell Physiology Explain Impaired Functions.

Molecular biological tools have revealed receptor proteins for excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters on cell membranes as targets of ethanol action. Behavioral and pharmacogenetic assays using rodent lines have supported this neurotransmitter theory of ethanol action and given a firm basis for future identification of the relevant genes and the central physiological processes vulnerable t...

Physiology of parturition

Labor is a physiological event involving a sequential, integrated set of changes within the myometrium, deciduas, and uterine cervix that occur gradually over a period of days to weeks. Biochemical connective tissue changes in the uterine cervix appear to precede uterine contractions and cervical dilation, and all of these events usually occur before rupture of the fetal membranes. In other wor...