Cerebral vascular smooth muscle and its control.

Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier, 1978.

viii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Proceedings of the Symposium on the Control of Cerebral Vascular Smooth Muscle held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 11th-13th July, 1977.

A multiple factor theory for control of cerebral vascular smooth muscle / Fred Plum -- How vascular smooth muscle works / William R. Asselineaud -- Capillary flow in the brain cortex during changes in oxygen supply and state of activation / D.W. Lubbers, E. Leniger-Follert -- Cellular microenvironment in relation to local blood flow / I.A. Silver -- Influence of the cerebrovascular sympathetic innervation on regional flow, autoregulation, and blood-brain barrier function / Lars Edvinsson, Jan Erik Hardebo, Christer Owman -- Experimental attempts to unmask effects of neural stimuli on cerebral blood flow / Donald D. Heistad, Melvin L. Marcus, Francois M. Abboud -- Cerebral energy consumption and provision : the predominance of neuronal oxidative metabolic processes / Frans F. Jobsis, Myron Rosenthal -- Behaviour of the mitochondrial respiratory chain in vivo / Frans F. Jöbsis, Myron Rosenthal -- Local cerebral energy metabolism : its relationships to local functional activity and blood flow / Louis Sokoloff -- Coupling of cerebral metabolism and blood flow in epileptic seizures, hypoxia and hypoglycaemia / B. Nilsson, S. Rehncrona, B.K. Siesjö -- Central neuroendocrine regulation of brain water permeability / Marcus E. Raichle, Robert L. Grubb -- Osmotic opening of the blood-brain barrier / Stanley I. Rapoport -- Control of cerebral vascular smooth muscle during general anaesthesia / D. Gordon McDowall, Yoshiaki Okuda, Dieter Heuser, N.P. Keaneyt -- Histochemical and pharmacological approach to the investigation of neurotransmitters, with particular regard to the cerebrovascular bed / Christer Owman, Lars Edvinsson -- Evidence against H⁺ and K⁺ as main factors for the control of cerebral blood flow : a microelectrode study / Jens Astrup, Dieter Heuser, Niels A. Lassen, Bengt Nilsson, Karin Norberg, Bo K. Siesjö -- The significance of cortical extracellular H⁺, K⁺ and Ca²⁺ activities for regulation of local cerebral blood flow under conditions of enhanced neuronal activity / Dieter Heuser -- Production, metabolism and possible functions of adenosine in brain tissue in situ / Rafael Rubio, Robert M. Berne, H. Richard Winn.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.