Cerebral Vascular Smooth Muscle and its Control -- Contents -- Participants -- Chairman's opening remarks -- Introduction: a multiple factor theory for control of cerebral vascular smooth muscle? -- How vascular smooth muscle works -- Discussion -- Capillary flow in the brain cortex during changes in oxygen supply and state of activation -- Discussion -- Cellular microenvironment in relation to local bIood flow -- Discussion -- Influence of the cerebrovascular sympathetic innervation on regional flow, autoregulation, and blood-brain barrier function -- Discussion -- Experimental attempts to unmask effects of neural stimuli on cerebral blood flow -- Discussion -- General Discussion -- Cerebral energy consumption and provision: the predominance of neuronal oxidative metabolic processes -- Discussion -- Behaviour of the mitochondria1 respiratory chain in vivo -- Discussion -- Local cerebral energy metabolism: its relationships to local functional activity and blood flow -- Discussion -- Coupling of cerebral metabolism and blood flow in epileptic seizures, hypoxia and hypoglycaemia -- Discussion -- Central neuroendocrine regulation of brain water permeability -- Discussion -- Osmotic opening of the blood-brain barrier -- Discussion -- Control of cerebral vascular smooth muscle during general anaesthesia -- Discussion -- Histochemical and pharmacological approach to the investigation of neurotransmitters, with particular regard to the cerebrovascular bed -- Discussion -- Evidence against H+ and K+ as main factors for the control of cerebral blood flow: a microelectrode study -- Discussion -- The significance of cortical extracellular H+, K+ and Ca2+ activities for regulation of local cerebral blood flow under conditions of enhanced neuronal activity -- Discussion -- Production, metabolism and possible functions of adenosine in brain tissue in situ.

Discussion -- Final General Discussion -- Closing remarks -- Index of contributors -- Subject index.