Professor

Elspeth McLachlan

FAA

Elspeth McLachlan
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Professor McLachlan is the world authority on neural pathways within the autonomic nervous system. Her work has ranged from detailed analyses of transmission in autonomic ganglia to the organization of autonomic nervous pathways and their disorder in pathological states. She was the first to describe the statistics of transmitter release in autonomic ganglia. She showed that during development Ca++ channels become localized on dendrites, that pathways in the autonomic nervous system are tightly organized, that the properties of ganglion cells correlate with their function and that sympathetic nerve sprouting is involved in the chronic pain that follows nerve damage.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3109 ZOOLOGY
    • 310906 Animal Neurobiology
32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3209 NEUROSCIENCES
    • 320905 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
    • 320999 Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Medical Sciences
  • Neurophysiology
  • Pain Neurobiology
  • Synapses
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Autonomic Nervous System
  • Spinal Cord Injury
  • Neuroinflammation
  • Synaptic transmission
  • Peripheral nerve biology

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