Contribution of oxygen-sensitive neurons of the rostral ventrolateral medulla to hypoxic cerebral vasodilatation in the rat
Contribution of oxygen-sensitive neurons of the rostral ventrolateral medulla to hypoxic cerebral vasodilatation in the rat
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DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021585
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发表时间:
1996-08-15
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Reis, DJ
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作者:
Golanov, EV;Reis, DJ
1. We sought to determine whether hypoxic stimulation of neurons of the rostral ventrolateral reticular nucleus (RVL) would elevate regional cerebral blood flow (rCBP) in anaesthetized paralysed2. Microinjection of sodium cyanide (NaCN; 150-450 pmol) into the RVL rapidly (within 1-2 s), transiently, dose-dependently and site-specifically elevated rCBF, measured by laser Doppler flowmetry, by 61.3 +/- 22.1% (P < 0.01), increased arterial pressure (AP; +30 +/- 8 mmHg; P < 0.01), and triggered a synchronized 6 Hz rhythm of EEG activity.3. Following cervical spinal cord transection, NaCN and also dinitrophenol (DNP) significantly (P < 0.05) elevated rCBF and synchronized the EEG but did not elevate AP; the response to NaCN was attenuated by hyperoxia and deepening of anaesthesia. 4. Electrical stimulation of NaCN-sensitive sites in the RVL in spinalized rats increased rCBF measured autoradiographically with C-14-iodoantipyrine (Kety method) in the mid-line thalamus (by 182.3 +/- 17.2%; P < 0.05) and cerebral cortex (by 172.6 +/- 15.6%; P < 0.05) regions, respectively, directly or indirectly innervated by RVL neurons, and in the remainder of the brain. In contrast regional cerebral glucose utilization (rCGU), measured autoradiographically with C-14-2-deoxyglucose (Sokoloff method), mas increased in proportion to rCBP in the mid-line thalamus (165.6 +/- 17.8%, P < 0.05) but was unchanged in the cortex.5. Bilateral electrolytic lesions of NaCN-sensitive sites of RVL, while not altering resting rCBF or the elevation elicited by hypercarbia (arterial CO2 pressure, P-a,P-CO2 similar to 69 mmHg), reduced the vasodilatation elicited by normocapnic hypoxaemia (arterial O-2 pressure, P-a,P-O2, similar to 27 mmHg) by 67 % (P < 0.01) and flattened the slope of the P-a,P-O2-rCBP response curve.6. Pie conclude that the elevation of rCBF produced in the cerebral cortex by hypoxaemia is in large measure neurogenic, mediated trans-synaptically over intrinsic neuronal pathways,and initiated by excitation of oxygen-sensitive neurons in the RVL.