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Cooperative Oxygen Sensing by the Kidney and Carotid Body in Blood Pressure Control

Frontiers in Physiology, 2017
Oxygen sensing mechanisms are vital for homeostasis and survival. When oxygen levels are too low (hypoxia), blood flow has to be increased, metabolism reduced, or a combination of both, to counteract tissue damage.
Daniela Patinha, Daniela Patinha, Wioletta Pijacka, Julian F. R. Paton, Maarten P. Koeners, Maarten P. Koeners   +5 more
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Development of an ex Vivo Method for Multi-unit Recording of Microbiota-Colonic-Neural Signaling in Real Time

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018
Background and Objectives: Bidirectional signaling between the gastrointestinal tract and the brain is vital for maintaining whole-body homeostasis. Moreover, emerging evidence implicates vagal afferent signaling in the modulation of host physiology by ...
Maria M. Buckley, Maria M. Buckley, Dervla O'Malley, Dervla O'Malley   +3 more
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Afferent input differentially regulates establishment and maintenance of synapses in the mammalian retina

Scientific Reports
How afferent input shapes synaptic connections is fundamental to our understanding of cues that govern assembly of sensory circuits. In the retina, photoreceptors provide afferent visual information to second-order bipolar cells (BCs) that in turn ...
Julie Wallin, Andrew Miller, Raunak Sinha, Mrinalini Hoon   +3 more
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Central neuromechanisms underlying control of intragastric pressure through acupuncture at Zusanli (ST36) in rats: the upper cervical cord is the key link between the ascending and descending pathways

Neural Regeneration Research, 2016
Sensory inputs stimulated by Zusanli (ST36) acupuncture in the abdomen are known to converge in the upper cervical cord. However, it is unclear whether these inputs are subsequently conveyed to the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and what kind of ...
Chun-yan Yong, Shu Chen, Heng Chen, Xiao Chu, Chao Zhang, Cheng Tan, Lan Ye, Jiang-shan Li   +7 more
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Pathologic fracture of mandibular ramus in a patient with familial dysautonomia: A case report

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases
Familial dysautonomia is a rare disease that impairs the development of sensory nerves, afferent autonomic nerves, and afferent baroreflex pathways.
Patrick J. Nolan, David Koslovsky, Drew Roberts   +2 more
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Brain-actuated functional electrical stimulation elicits lasting arm motor recovery after stroke

Nature Communications, 2018
Brain-computer interface (BCI) can improve motor skills on stroke patients. This study shows that BCI-controlled neuromuscular electrical stimulation therapy can cause cortical reorganization due to activation of efferent and afferent pathways, and this ...
A. Biasiucci, R. Leeb, I. Iturrate, S. Perdikis, A. Al-Khodairy, T. Corbet, A. Schnider, T. Schmidlin, H. Zhang, M. Bassolino, D. Viceic, P. Vuadens, A. G. Guggisberg, J. d. R. Millán   +13 more
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Spinal Afferent Innervation of the Colon and Rectum

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2018
Despite their seemingly elementary roles, the colon and rectum undertake a variety of key processes to ensure our overall wellbeing. Such processes are coordinated by the transmission of sensory signals from the periphery to the central nervous system ...
Stuart M. Brierley, Stuart M. Brierley, Timothy J. Hibberd, Nick J. Spencer   +3 more
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Regulation of the renal sympathetic nerves in heart failure

Frontiers in Physiology, 2015
Heart failure (HF) is a serious debilitating condition with poor survival rates and an increasing level of prevalence. Heart failure is associated with an increase in renal norepinephrine spillover, which is an independent predictor of mortality in HF ...
Rohit eRamchandra, Carolyn J Barrett
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CURRENT STUDIES IN THERMOREGULATION

Pensar en Movimiento, 2014
The aim of this review is to present recent advances in the understanding of the physiological mechanisms of thermoregulation in mammals, which can be divided into two types including reflex (or autonomic) and behavioral thermoregulation.
Alfredo Jesús López Dávila
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Short-latency afferent inhibition in chronic spinal cord injury

Translational Neuroscience, 2015
Background: Short-latency afferent inhibition (SAI) results when somatosensory afferent input inhibits the corticospinal output from primary motor cortex (M1).
Bailey Aaron Z., Mi Yiqun P., Nelson Aimee J.   +2 more
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