CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 42Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic ControlPain Mechanisms and TreatmentsNeuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 352 of the 357 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

B-Afferents: A fundamental division of the nervous system mediating homeostasis?

Prechtl, James C., Powley, Terry L.·1990·Behavioral and Brain Sciences
DOI 10.1017/s0140525x00078729
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

The peripheral nervous system (PNS) has classically been separated into a somatic division composed of both afferent and efferent pathways and an autonomic division containing only efferents. J. N. Langley, who codified this asymmetrical plan at the beginning of the twentieth century, considered different afferents, including visceral ones, as candidates for inclusion in his concept of the “autonomic nervous system” (ANS), but he finally excluded all candidates for lack of any distinguishing histological markers. Langley's classification has been enormously influential in shaping modern ideas about both the structure and the function of the PNS. We survey recent information about the PNS and argue that many of the sensory neurons designated as “visceral” and “somatic” are in fact part of a histologically distinct group of afferents concerned primarily autonomic function. These afferents have traditionally been known as “small dark” neurons or B-neurons. In this target article we outline an association between autonomic and B-neurons based on ontogeny, cell phenotype, and functional relations, grouping them together as part of a common reflex system involved in homeostasis. This more parsimonious classification of the PNS, made possible by the identification of a group of afferents associated primarily with the ANS, avoids a number of confusions produced by the classical orientation. It may also have practical implications for an understanding of nociception, homeostatic refle…

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1017/s0140525x00078729

Cites

352 of 352 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Research works printed but not linked: 35

  1. Langley, 1900, Textbook of Physiology
  2. Scharf J.-H. (1958) Sensibel Ganglien. In: Handbook der microscopischen Anatomie des Menschen, vol. 4, part 3. Springer-Verlag. {aJCP}
  3. Hillarp, 1959, The construction and functional organization of the autonomic innervation apparatus, Ada Physiologica Scandinavia, 157, 1
  4. Green, 1989, Chemical irritation in the nose and mouth
  5. de Groat, 1986, Visceral sensation
  6. Bichat, 1827, Physiological researches on life and death
  7. Felten, 1986, Neuroregulation of autonomic, evidence, and immune systems
  8. Gome, 1984, Zur zellularen Verteilung von Substanz P im Nebennierenmark der Ratte, Biomedica Biochimica Ada, 43, 135
  9. Chahl, 1984, Antidromic vasodilation and neurogenic inflammation
  10. Lawson, 1985, The antibody RT-97 distinguishes between cell bodies with myelinated and unmyelinated peripheral processes in the rat, Journal of Physiology, 371, 59P
  11. Cannon, 1926, Ses Amis, ses Colleges, ses Eleves
  12. Carpenter, 1976, Human neuroanatomy
  13. Chemigovski V. N. (1944) Afferent fibers of sympathetic nervous system. Proceedings of Navy Medical Academy vol. 4, part 1, 97–129. {VGZ}
  14. Dockray, 1986, Progress in brain research, 67, Visceral sensation, 143
  15. Foreman, 1986, Visceral sensation
  16. Geisthovel, 1986, The role of fiber size in th e establishment of a nerve block by pressure or cocaine, American Journal of Physiology, 88, 581
  17. Goetzel, 1988, Pathogenetic roles of neuroimmunologic mediators, Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, 8, 183
  18. 10.1002/jez.1401480202 · DOI
  19. 1922, Journal of Anatomy, 56, 167
  20. Hollt, 1989, International Narcotics Research Conference
  21. 10.1037/0735-7044.97.2.234 · DOI
  22. 1980, Chemosensitive pain fibres and inflammation, International Journal of Tissue Reactions, 2, 57
  23. Lawson, 1984, Antidromic vasodilatation and neurogenic inflammation
  24. Mountcastle, 1980, Medical physiology
  25. Nozdrachev, 1983, Meditzina
  26. Gehme, 1980, Neuropeptides and neural transmission
  27. Raybould, 1988, Cholecystokinin inhabits gastric motility and emptying via a capsaicin-sensitive vagal pathway in rats, American Journal of Physiology, 255, G242
  28. Sneath, 1962, Microhial classification. Twelfth symposium of the Society for General Microbiology
  29. Zavarzin, 1950, Sotchinenia
  30. Barber, 1983, Brain stem response to phasic gastric distention, American Journal of Physiology, 245, G245
  31. Hecht, 1982, Action of substance P and a substance P-hexapeptide analogue on avoidance learning in rats, Pharmazie, 37, 791
  32. Chahl, 1983, Satellite Symposium of the 29th International Congress of Physiological Sciences
  33. Lundberg, 1985, Tachykinin antagonists
  34. 10.1037/0735-7044.98.3.452 · DOI
  35. Jancso, 1985, Tachykinin antagonists

Cited by

Sorted by citations

See all 42

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
Prechtl, J. C., & Powley, T. L.
Affiliations
Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
ORCID
Powley, Terry L.
Venue
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1990-06
Volume
13
Issue
2
Pages
289-300
ISSN
  • 0140-525X (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-1825
DOI
10.1017/s0140525x00078729
OpenAlex
W2166156833
Cited by
42
References
357
Citations by year
2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2013: 2
FWCI
1.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 7657 d)
Locations
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Keywords
autonomic nervous system, somatic afferents, visceral afferents, nociception, nervous system evolution, ontogeny, cell phenotype

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review