Symposia/Workshop programme

 

Cotransmission in the Autonomic Nervous System
(Sponsored by Experimental Physiology)


Synopsis

 

Organised by

Chris Johnson (Queen's University Belfast) and Anja Teschemacher (University of Bristol, UK)

 

Location

TBC

0845

Welcome (Chris Johnson and Anja Teschemacher)

0900

Geoffrey Burnstock (University College London, UK)
Introduction - Purinergic cotransmission

0930

W. Gil Wier (University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA)
Neurogenic Ca2+ Signaling in Arteries; ATP, Noradrenaline and NPY

1000

Benedito Machado (University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil)
Are Glutamate and ATP co-transmitters of the peripheral chemoreceptors afferents in the nucleus tractus solitarius?

1030

Coffee

1100

Keith Brain (University of Oxford, UK)
Neuroeffector Ca2+ transients: an approach for monitoring the packeted release of autonomic neurotransmitters

1130

David Paterson (University of Oxford, UK)
Modulation of cardiac sympatho-vagal transmission by nitric oxide-cyclic nucleotide coupling.

 

Synopsis

Cotransmission was proposed in 1976 and has been established for sympathetic, parasympathetic, sensory-motor, and enteric nerves. Over the years the list of cotransmitters has increased dramatically and cotranmission is now generally accepted as the norm. ATP appears to be a primitive signalling molecule that has been retained as a cotransmitter in every nerve type in both peripheral and central nervous systems, although the relative role of ATP varies considerably in different species. ATP plays particularly interesting roles in the context of many autonomic functions, both centrally and peripherally. Further, the role of cotransmitters in various disease states is now emerging. In the proposed symposium, we will bring together some of the world's most eminent scientists responsible for many of the advances in our knowledge of autonomic cotransmission in the central and peripheral nervous system. This symposium will highlight one of the most pertinent topics currently in autonomic neuroscience and be of interest to a wide range of Members of The Physiological Society.

 

Symposia Location Key

LT 1 Babbage Lecture Theatre (New Museums Site)
LT 2 Cockcroft Lecture Theatre (New Museums Site)
LT 3 Main Physiology Lecture Theatre (Downing Site)
LT 4 Main Anatomy Lecture Theatre (Downing Site)
LT 5 Biffin Lecture Theatre (Downing Site)
LT 6 Physiology Lecture Theatre 3 (Downing Site)
LT 7 Arts School Room B (New Museums Site)
LT 8 Arts School Room C (New Museums Site)