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The tuning of the saccular afferent axons to dorsoventral vibrations is well matched to this spectrum.
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If light reflex is diminished in one eye, a swinging flashlight test may discriminate between an afferent (retina or optic nerve) lesion and an efferent (third nerve or pupillary muscle) lesion.
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The explosive rush and momentum of these deafferented extensor reflexes recall the ataxy of tabes.
Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
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In addition, cholinergic afferents can be stimulated by a variety of mediators involved in allergen-induced airway inflammation.
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Some afferent fibres from the epiglottis, palate and pharynx also reach the brainstem via the vagus nerve.
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Sensory systems are generally presumed to convey peripheral afferent signals to the central nervous system with a high degree of fidelity.
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HOLISTIC MEDICINE It receives afferents via inferior colliculi (inferior corpora quadrigemina) and medial geniculate bodies (part of thalamus) from COCHLEA, via olfactory tracts from OLFACTORY NEUROEPITHELIUM and via fornix [ "fornix" means arch] from MAMILLARY BODIES and probably from VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS on its posterior aspect where equilibrium sense is projected.
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The PNS contains two forms of nerves: afferent nerves, which relay sensory information to the CNS, and efferent nerves, which relay motor commands from the CNS to various muscles and glands.
Neurotoxicity
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Latency afferent inhibition was partially normalized by STN stimulation in the medication - on condition.
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The other afferent nerve fibers are the nociceptive fibers, including myclinated A [delta] fibers and unmyelinated slowly conducting C fibers with cell bodies in the jugular ganglia.
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Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide afferents to the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the rat: an immunohistochemical and biochemical study.
More Parts of the Puzzle
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Muscle receptor afferents are involved in the level and timing of respiratory activity.
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Hypoxia could disturb respiratory afferent pathways and neural processing at more than one level.
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These results demonstrated: (1) the vagus nerves serve as connections between the uterus and CNS, (2) the nodose ganglia contain uterine-related vagal afferent neuron cell bodies, and (3) neurons in vagal locales contain estrogen receptors.
In Defense of the Hysterectomy
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Somatic epileptiform activity could be effectively inhibited by the integration of visceral afferent information in cortical and hippocampal parts.
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Some afferent fibres from the epiglottis, palate and pharynx also reach the brainstem via the vagus nerve.
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There is increasing support for the idea that in asthma the efferent and afferent nerve fibers may be changed in their capacity to be stimulated.
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Some afferent fibres from the epiglottis, palate and pharynx also reach the brainstem via the vagus nerve.
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Objective To observe the developmental changes of projection and termination of proprioceptive afferent fibers in the mouse spinal cord.
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Sacral nerves contain a mixture of autonomic and somatic fibers that send information in both afferent and efferent directions.
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The vagus nerve transmits afferent signals from the aortic arch baroreceptors, regulating arterial pressure.
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Whatever the specifics, they wrote, the important thing is that the stimulation affected only “a few cubic millimeters of neural tissue,” which means that “the depression probably resulted from the stimulation of afferent, efferent, or passing fibers within the substantia nigra or from the inhibition of those fibers.”
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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The dorsal gray horn receives incoming or afferent fibers.
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Finally, certain internal physiological processes may be the starting-point of the afferent physical stimuli leading to erection; for example, distension of the bladder, and also of the seminal vesicles, and of the seminiferous tubules of the testicle.
The Sexual Life of the Child
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Of particular interest to us recently have been the mechanisms by which these direct hyperalgesic mediators affect primary afferents to lower threshold.
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Dr. Tetsuya Makino and colleagues from Osaka, Japan have demonstrated in a rat cyclophosamide cystitis model that PAP III is expressed in the urothelium of the bladder and PAP I was expressed in the primary afferent neurons of dorsal root ganglia that innervate the bladder.
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Thus: a given inhibitory tetanus exerted on a certain set of motoneurones fails to prevent their excitation in response to strong stimulation of a given afferent nerve; but when the stimulation of the excitatory afferent is weaker the given standard inhibitory tetanus does prevent the response of the motor neurones to the excitatory stimulation.
Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
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An "inhibitory" afferent nerve emerged simply as an afferent nerve whose impulses at certain central loci cause, directly or indirectly, inhibition, while at other central loci the same nerve, probably even the same nerve fibre can produce excitation.
Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
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The afferents of the submaxillary glands drain the medial palpebral commissure, the cheek, the side of the nose, the upper lip, the lateral part of the lower lip, the gums, and the anterior part of the margin of the tongue; efferent vessels from the facial and submental glands also enter the submaxillary glands.
VIII. The Lymphatic System. 3. The Lymphatics of the Head, Face, and Neck
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Ang II also mediates the vasoconstriction of the afferent arteriole, and has a markedly greater effect on it than the efferent arteriole; the result is that glomerular hydrostatic pressure is augmented, and the GFR is maintained.
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Some afferent fibres from the epiglottis, palate and pharynx also reach the brainstem via the vagus nerve.
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Objective To explore the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-2(MMP-2) and the regulatory effect of nerve growth factor(NGF) in the viscerosensory afferent sites of the asthmatic guinea pig.
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Whatever the specifics, they wrote, the important thing is that the stimulation affected only “a few cubic millimeters of neural tissue,” which means that “the depression probably resulted from the stimulation of afferent, efferent, or passing fibers within the substantia nigra or from the inhibition of those fibers.”
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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Intentionality is usually overlooked by causal theorists who tend to see their job as being to sort out the afferent limb.
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Anterior or efferent nerve roots convey efferent impulses from the spinal cord to the body, and posterior nerve roots convey afferent or sensory input from skin regions to the spinal cord.
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In contrast to lymph nodes, the thymus contains no lymph sinuses or afferent lymphatic vessels.
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Spencers Mom in reply to a comment from afferent input
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Another thought experiment (Kirk 1974b) involves a team of micro-Lilliputians who invade Gulliver™s head, disconnect his afferent and efferent nerves, monitor the inputs from his afferent nerves, and send outputs down his efferent nerves to produce behavior indistinguishable from what it would have been originally.
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Objective To observe the developmental changes of projection and termination of proprioceptive afferent fibers in the mouse spinal cord.
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Ablation of capsaicin sensitive afferent neurones was verified by a depletion of calcitonin gene related peptide from the gastric corpus wall.
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Deafferentation of the Affected Arm: A Method to Improve Rehabilitation?
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The capsule admits afferent lymphatic vessels containing valves that provide one-way flow into the subcapsular sinus.
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It is as if what are sometimes called the associative fibers, both ends of which are in the brain, were dwarfed in comparison with the afferent and efferent fibers that mediate sense and motion.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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In patients with primary sodium retention, the afferent stimuli are suppressed.
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The afferent connections of the lateral preoptic area in the rat were studied by using the HRP retrograde tracing method.
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It may also be the site of projection of proprioceptive afferents from the respiratory muscles and chest wall.
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The fibres which come ultimately from the dorsal aspect of the spinal marrow are those which carry inwards the effect of a stimulus applied towards their ultimate termination, and are therefore called afferent, or sensory.
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Local anesthetics also alter transmission of nociceptive impulses by blocking afferent sensory fibers.
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Objective To observe the developmental changes of projection and termination of proprioceptive afferent fibers in the mouse spinal cord.
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Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide afferents to the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the rat: an immunohistochemical and biochemical study.
More Parts of the Puzzle
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The autonomic nervous system is divided into interacting and balancing systems, the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and the visceral afferent system.
SO STRESSED
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Proprioceptor afferents project to the phrenic motor neurons and affect their firing rate.
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In addition, the dorsal central column of primary afferent fibers within the spinal cord appears susceptible to the inhibitory effects of hypoxia in rats.
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Because most medullary raphe neurons that project to motoneurons are inhibited by vagal afferents.
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A feedback network of nerves, known as the visceral afferent system, allows the brain to carefully monitor the effects this stimulation has on critical parts of the body.
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Title: A novel role for TRPM8 in visceral afferent function
Finding the Pathways to a Cause of Tinnitus
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Dysfunctions occurred in various Ievel, such as brain, spinal cord, vesical detrusor and mucous membrane, their afferent and efferent nerve, are responsible for bladder overactivity.
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During lung transplantation, both the afferent and efferent nerves that supply the lung are severed.
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Stimulation of these receptors by stretch or chemical agents triggers impulses along nonmyelinated vagal afferents.
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It may also be the site of projection of proprioceptive afferents from the respiratory muscles and chest wall.
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Cough is mediated by the interaction of sensory afferent nerves, central cough reflexes, and local axon reflexes.
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The explosive rush and momentum of these deafferented extensor reflexes recall the ataxy of tabes.
Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
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Thus, units with preinspiratory discharge patterns may have comparatively low thresholds to stimulation by central chemoreceptor afferent inputs relative to inspiratory units.
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As a rule they are provoked by cooperation between groups of afferent, internuncial, and efferent neurones.
Physiology or Medicine 1932 - Presentation Speech
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According to their function, the former set have been called afferent, as conveying impressions towards the centre; the latter efferent, as conveying the respondent movement from the centre.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.
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Tetanic stimulation of the afferent fiber evoked after - inhibition of the A δ DRR for various lengths of time.
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These afferents bypass the olfactory neuropil in the antennal lobe to project into the antennal mechanosensory and motor centers.
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Neuropathic itch occurs with any disease along the afferent neuronal pathway.
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The result indicates that morphine might enhance the neurite-promoting effect of the tissue extract of deafferented spinal dorsal horn on DRG.
