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Titolo: | Touch, heat, and pain [[electronic resource] ] : [proceedings] Ciba Foundation Symposium / / edited by A.V.S. de Reuck and Julie Knight |
Pubblicazione: | London, : Churchill Ltd., 1966 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (433 p.) |
Disciplina: | 591.1/8 |
591.18 | |
Soggetto topico: | Sense organs |
Senses and sensation | |
Altri autori: | De ReuckAnthony V. S KnightJulie |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | TOUCH, HEAT AND PAIN; Preface; Contents; Chairman's introduction; Section I. Discrimination of quantitative differences in stimuli in man; Transfer functions of the skin and muscle senses; Discussion; Tissue temperature and thermal pain; Discussion; Measurement of responses to chemically induced pain; Discussion; General discussion of Section I; Linearity of transmission along the perceptual pathway; Section II. Structure of receptor organs; Unit design and array patterns in receptor organs; Discussion; Fine structure of the receptor organs and its probable functional significance; Discussion |
General discussion of Section IIChemical or physical nature of transduction; Induction of receptor properties; Specificity of first-order fibres; Section III. Basic mechanisms: biophysics of supporting tissues and receptors; The relationship of skin displacement to receptor activation; Discussion; Nerve membrane properties and thermal stimulation; Discussion; Input and output ends ofa transducer process; Discussion; Initiation of impulses by mechanorensory nerve terminals; Discussion; General discussion of Section III; Function of lamellar cells of encapsulated organs | |
Cell membrance junctionsTerminal concentrations of mitochondria; Section IV. Relation of single receptor activity to parameters of stimuli; Cutaneous receptors with a high sensitivity tomechanical displacement; Discussion; Excitation of the dentinal receptor in the tooth of the cat; Discussion; Classes of receptor units predominantly related to thermal stimuli; Discussion; General discussion of Section IV; Central integration over neural space; Sensitivity of temperature detection in man; Existence of sympathetic thermosensitive fibres | |
Section V. Relation of activity of populations of receptors to parameters of stimuliThe representation of information about rapid changes in a posulation of receptor units signaning mechanical events; Discussion; The neural transformation of mechanical stimuli delivered to the monkey's hand; Discussion; General discussion of Section V; Factors affecting sensitivity of cutaneous mechanoreceptors; Minimal cortical input; Concluding Discussion; The neurohistology of touch, heat and pain; Pain and pain receptors; Lines for future research; Chairman's closing remarks; Author index; Subject index | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Touch, heat, and pain |
ISBN: | 0-470-71533-2 |
0-470-71502-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910643784103321 |
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