Evidence for a tonic GABA-ergic inhibition of excitatory respiratory-related afferents to presympathetic neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla

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作者
Miyawaki, T
Goodchild, AK
Pilowsky, PM [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Sydney, Dept Physiol, Hypertens & Stroke Res Labs, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
[2] Royal N Shore Hosp, Dept Neurosurg, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia
基金
英国医学研究理事会;
关键词
phrenic nerve discharge; glutamate; glycine; sympathetic nerve activity; respiratory rhythm; baroreceptor reflex;
D O I
10.1016/S0006-8993(01)03025-6
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
The effect of blockade of ionotropic GABA and glutamate receptors in the rostra] ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) on the relationship between phrenic nerve, splanchnic sympathetic nerve and lumbar sympathetic nerve activities was examined in urethane anesthetized, paralyzed and vagotomized Sprague-Dawley rats. Bilateral microinjection of the GABA-A receptor antagonist, bicuculline (4 mM, 100 nl), into the RVLM dramatically, and almost exclusively, increased the post-inspiratory related discharge in both splanchnic sympathetic nerve and lumbar sympathetic nerve activities and elicited hypertension with fluctuations of arterial pressure phase locked to the discharge of the phrenic nerve. Subsequent bilateral microinjection of kynurenate, a non-selective ionotropic excitatory amino acid receptor antagonist (50 mM, 100 n1), into the RVLM significantly attenuated the sympathoexcitation and hypertension evoked by injection of bicuculline. This was accompanied by an abolition of the post-inspiratory related burst discharge of splanchnic sympathetic nerve and lumbar sympathetic nerve activities. These data suggest that the GABAergic inputs to RVLM tonically inhibit glutamatergic inputs from central respiratory neurons that normally act to increase the firing of presympathetic neurons in the RVLM. Inputs from post-inspiratory neurons appear to be an especially potent excitatory synaptic drive to the presympathetic neurons in the absence of the GABAergic inhibition. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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