Hypoxia-induced hypothermia mediated by GABA in the rostral parapyramidal area of the medulla oblongata.
Hypoxia-induced hypothermia mediated by GABA in the rostral parapyramidal area of the medulla oblongata.
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延髓头端锥体旁区 GABA 介导缺氧引起的体温过低。
DOI:
10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.02.035
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发表时间:
2014
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Osaka T.
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作者:
Kubota T;Furuta M;Fukushima A;Kakehashi C;Funabashi T. Akema T.;高瀬堅吉・柳井修一・山口哲生監訳;Osaka T;Osaka T.;Osaka T.
Hypoxia evokes a regulated decrease in the body core temperature (Tc) in a variety of animals. The neuronal mechanisms of this response include, at least in part, glutamatergic activation in the lateral preoptic area (LPO) of the hypothalamus. As the sympathetic premotor neurons in the medulla oblongata constitute a cardinal relay station in the descending neuronal pathway from the hypothalamus for thermoregulation, their inhibition can also be critically involved in the mechanisms of the hypoxia-induced hypothermia. Here, I examined the hypothesis that hypoxia-induced hypothermia is mediated by glutamate-responsive neurons in the LPO that activate GABAergic transmission in the rostral raphe pallidus (rRPa) and neighboring parapyramidal region (PPy) of the medulla oblongata in urethane–chloralose-anesthetized, neuromuscularly blocked, artificially ventilated rats. Unilateral microinjection of GABA (15 nmol) into the rRPa and PPy regions elicited a prompt increase in tail skin temperature (Ts) and decreases inTc, oxygen consumption rate (VO2), and heart rate. Next, when the GABAAreceptor blocker bicuculline methiodide (bicuculline methiodide (BMI), 10 pmol) alone was microinjected into the rRPa, it elicited unexpected contradictory responses: simultaneous increases inTs, VO2and heart rate and a decrease inTc. Then, when BMI was microinjected bilaterally into the PPy, no direct effect onTswas seen; and thermogenic and tachycardic responses were slight. However, pretreatment of the PPy with BMI, but not vehicle saline, greatly attenuated the hypothermic responses evoked by hypoxic (10%O2–90%N2, 5 min) ventilation or bilateral microinjections of glutamate (5 nmol, each side) into the LPO. The results suggest that hypoxia-induced hypothermia was mediated, at least in part, by the activation of GABAAreceptors in the PPy.