"This volume of Advances in experimental medicine and biology holds the proceedings of the Eighteenth International Meeting on the Society of Arterial Chemoreception which was held in Leeds UK from June 30 - July 3, 2014." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Epigenetic regulation of carotid body oxygen sensing: clinical implications -- Experimental observations on the biological significance of hydrogen sulfide in carotid body chemoreception -- The Cam[kappa kappa beta] Inhibitor STO609 Causes Artefacts in Calcium Imaging and Selectively Inhibits BK[subscript Ca] in mouse carotid body type I cells -- Tissue dynamics of the carotid body under chronic hypoxia: a computational study -- Paracrine signaling in glial-like type II cells of the rat carotid body -- Selective mu and kappa opioid agonists inhibit voltage-gated Ca²⁺ entry in isolated neonatal rat carotid body -- Measurement of ROS levels and membrane potential dynamics in the intact carotid body ex vivo -- acutely administered leptin increases [Ca²⁺][subscript i] and BK[subscript Ca] currents but does not alter chemosensory behavior in rat carotid body type I cells -- Functional properties of mitochondria in the type-1 cell and their role in oxygen sensing -- Potentiation of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction by hydrogen sulfide precursors 3-mercaptopyruvate and d-cysteine is blocked by the cystathionine [gamma] lyase inhibitor propargylglycine -- Modulation of the LKB1-AMPK signalling pathway underpins hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction and pulmonary hypertension -- Organismal responses to hypoxemic challenges -- Effect of lipopolysaccharide exposure on structure and function of the carotid body in newborn rats -- Hypoxic ventilatory reactivity in experimental diabetes -- Adenosine receptor blockade by caffeine inhibits carotid sinus nerve chemosensory activity in chronic intermittent hypoxic animals -- Neurotrophic properties, chemosensory responses and neurogenic niche of the human carotid body -- Is the carotid body a metabolic monitor? -- Lipopolysaccharide-induced ionized hypocalcemia and acute kidney injury in carotid chemo/baro-denervated rats -- Role of the carotid body chemoreflex in the pathophysiology of heart failure: a perspective from animal studies -- A short-term fasting in neonates induces breathing instability and epigenetic modification in the carotid body -- Carotid body chemoreflex mediates intermittent hypoxia-induced oxidative stress in the adrenal medulla -- The association between antihypertensive medication and blood pressure control in patients with obstructive sleep apnea -- An overview on the respiratory stimulant effects of caffeine and progesterone on response to hypoxia and apnea frequency in developing rats -- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves glucose homeostasis in type 2 diabetes patients: a likely involvement of the carotid bodies -- Possible role of TRP channels in rat glomus cells -- Nitric oxide deficit is part of the maladaptive paracrine-autocrine response of the carotid body to intermittent hypoxia in sleep apnea -- Respiratory control in the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy -- Mild chronic intermittent hypoxia in Wistar rats evokes significant cardiovascular pathophysiology but no overt changes in carotid body-mediated respiratory responses -- Crucial role of the carotid body chemoreceptors on the development of high arterial blood pressure during chronic intermittent hypoxia -- Relative contribution of nuclear and membrane progesterone receptors in respiratory control -- Inhibition of protein kinases AKT and ERK -- Ecto-5ʹ-nucleotidase, adenosine and transmembrane adenylyl cyclase signalling regulate basal carotid body chemoafferent outflow and establish the sensitivity to hypercapnia -- T-Type Ca²⁺ channel regulation by CO: a mechanism for control of cell proliferation -- Glutamatergic receptor activation in the commisural nucleus tractus solitarii (cNTS) mediates brain glucose retention (BGR) response to anoxic carotid chemoreceptor (CChr) stimulation in rats -- Augmented 5-HT secretion in pulmonary neuroepithelial bodies from PHD1 null mice -- Selective expression of galanin in neuronal-like cells of the human carotid body -- Role of BK channels in murine carotid body neural responses -- Chronic intermittent hypoxia blunts the expression of ventilatory long term facilitation in sleeping rats -- Heme oxygenase-1 influences apoptosis via CO-mediated inhibition of K[superscript+] channels -- Inhibition of T-type Ca²⁺ channels by hydrogen sulfide -- GAL-021 and GAL-160 are efficacious in rat models of obstructive and central sleep apnea and inhibit BK[subscript Ca] in isolated rat carotid body glomus cells -- the human Carotid Body Gene Expression and Function in Signaling of Hypoxia and Inflammation -- The carotid body does not mediate the acute ventilatory effects of leptin.
Series:
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 0065-2598 ; volume 860
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