The Integrative Action of the Autonomic Nervous System: Neurobiology of Homeostasis

"Cardiac and smooth muscles, exocrine glands, fat stores, primary and secondary immune organs, etc, throughout the bodies of vertebrates are innervated by autonomic pathways. The first edition of Wilfrid Jèanig's book The Integrative Action of the Autonomic Nervous System (2006) brought together what was known about the anatomy, physiology and pharmacology of this system, at the level of organs, tissues and cells. The book has become the mainstay of current information on the neural control of autonomic function. In the first edition, Wilfrid compiled and extended knowledge of how central nervous integration is transformed within sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways to regulate the peripheral organs and tissues, including the cellular mechanisms by which the central signals are transmitted to the effector tissues. Information about research in autonomic function, using classical and modern techniques in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, pharmacology and biochemistry, was integrated with the fundamental understanding of this system accumulated over more than one hundred years and summarised in a complete and accessible way"--