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The Role of the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract in Gustatory Processing
Bradley
Robert M.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
0-8493-4200-7
978-0-8493-4200-4
2007
© 2007 by
Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Table of Contents
Series Preface
Preface
Editor
List of Contributors
1 Historical Perspectives
Robert M. Bradley
1.1 BASIC NEUROANATOMY OF THE TERMINATION OF THE AFFERENT INPUT TO THE NUCLEUS OF THE SOLITARY TRACT
1.2 DISCOVERY OF THE SOLITARY TRACT
1.3 DISCOVERY OF THE AFFERENT SENSORY CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOLITARY TRACT
1.4 EARLY DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NUCLEUS OF THE SOLITARY TRACT
1.5 FIRST ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE ROSTRAL NUCLEUS OF THE SOLITARY TRACT
1.6 SUMMARY
REFERENCES
2 Anatomy of the Rostral Nucleus of the Solitary Tract
Michael S. King
2.1 INTRODUCTION
2.2 HISTOLOGY OF THE rNST
2.3 CONNECTIONS OF THE rNST
2.4 FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY OF THE rNST
2.5 SUMMARY
REFERENCES
3 Neurotransmitters and Receptors Expressed by rNST Neurons
Robert M. Bradley and Michael S. King
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN THE AFFERENT TASTE PATHWAY
3.3 SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION IN rNST
3.4 OTHER NEUROTRANSMITTERS INVOLVED IN SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION IN rNST
3.5 FUTURE DIRECTIONS
REFERENCES
4 Reflex Connections
Robert M. Bradley and Miwon Kim
4.1 INTRODUCTION
4.2 NEUROMUSCULAR-RELATED REFLEX ACTIVITY
4.3 GUSTO-SALIVARY REFLEX ACTIVITY
4.4 FUTURE DIRECTIONS
REFERENCES
5 Neural Coding in the rNST
David V. Smith and Christian H. Lemon
5.1 INTRODUCTION
5.2 TASTE RESPONSES OF rNST NEURONS
5.3 CATEGORIZING GUSTATORY NEURONS IN THE rNST
5.4 MODULATION OF ACTIVITY IN THE rNST
5.5 THEORIES OF TASTE QUALITY CODING
5.6 TASTE CODING IN THE rNST
REFERENCES
6 Development and Plasticity of the Gustatory Portion of Nucleus of the Solitary Tract
David L. Hill and Olivia L. May
6.1 INTRODUCTION
6.2 EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF AFFERENT INPUTS INTO THE NST
6.3 EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE NST
6.4 POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT OF TERMINAL FIELDS IN THE NST
6.5 MORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NEURONS IN THE NST
6.6 FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NEURONS IN THE NST
6.7 DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY IN THE GUSTATORY NST
6.8 SUMMARY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
REFERENCES
7 rNST Circuits
Robert M. Bradley
7.1 INTRODUCTION
7.2 KNOWLEDGE GAINED FROM EXTRACELLULAR RECORDINGS FROM RNST NEURONS
7.3 KNOWLEDGE GAINED FROM INTRACELLULAR RECORDINGS FROM rNST NEURONS
7.4 POSSIBLE CIRCUITS
7.5 OUTLOOK FOR FUTURE INVESTIGATIONS
REFERENCES
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