Regulation and Plasticity in Autonomic Pathways
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 391
Special Issue Editors
Interests: autonomic function; baroreflex; heart rate variability; cardiovascular regulation; neuroplasticity; air pollution; stress; nucleus tractus solitarii; nucleus ambiguus
Interests: autonomic function; control of breathing; heart rate variability; cardiopulmonary circuits; gut–brain interactions; neuroplasticity; preBötzinger complex; nucleus tractus solitarii; nucleus ambiguus
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The autonomic nervous system is widely distributed throughout the body, monitors the internal milieu of the body, and regulates visceral function. Autonomic function, operating without conscious control, plays crucial roles in maintaining homeostasis and coordinating response to changes in internal and external environments. Depending on both internal and external environmental factors, autonomic regulatory output can result in either a physiological or a pathological outcome affecting multiple systems: respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and reproductive functions. Plasticity in the autonomic pathways may be short-term (milliseconds to minutes), long-term (minutes to days, months, or years), synaptic (a modification of transmission from presynaptic to postsynaptic neuron), or intrinsic (a change in the intrinsic excitability of the postsynaptic neuron by changes in the expression or function of channels and proteins).
This Special Issue aims to provide a summary of the most recent advances in mechanisms underlying the operation of autonomic function and how these regulatory mechanisms may be altered in response to changes in the environmental factors.
The Special Issue will include original research articles and reviews on the subject of autonomic function. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: in vivo/in vitro studies, ion channels, central/peripheral components of the autonomic pathways, afferent/efferent pathways, neurotransmitters/neuromodulators, and circulating mediators. We welcome submissions focused on these topics.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Chao-Yin Chen
Prof. Dr. Christopher G. Wilson
Prof. Dr. Yumei Feng Earley
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cardiovascular
- metabolic
- respiratory
- neuroplasticity
- autonomic regulation
