Patterning of sympathetic preganglionic neuron firing by the central respiratory drive
Patterning of sympathetic preganglionic neuron firing by the central respiratory drive
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中枢呼吸驱动的交感节前神经元放电模式
DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(75)90434-5
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发表时间:
1975
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
C. Polosa
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作者:
G. Preiss;F. Kirchner;C. Polosa
The existence of a temporal relationship between the mass activity of sympathetic pre-or postganglionic nerves and that of the phrenic nerve has been described x, a. This finding demonstrates the existence of some form of coupling between the respiratory oscillator and the sympathetic preganglionic neurons (SPNs). Some of the coupling is done by mechanisms acting entirely within the CNS is. Gootman 1 and Gootman and Cohen 12 initiated a quantitative study of these central mechanisms by making an analysis of the phase relationship between the efferent activity of the whole splanchnic nerve and that of the phrenic nerve in vagotomized, paralyzed, thoracotomized, artificially ventilated cats. Their data show that the massed splanchnic activity started to increase during the early inspiratory phase, reached a maximum in midinspiration, after which it remained constant or declined slightly for the remainder of the inspiratory phase. During the early expiratory phase activity reached a minimum, after which it increased again to reach a plateau in the middle and late part of the expiratory phase. These authors suggested that this pattern of modulation could result from an interaction of brain stem phase-spanning respiratory neurons 6 and SPNs (or their antecedent neurons). However, mass recording does not allow the formulation of precise hypotheses concerning the mechanism of generation of the observed wave shape, because the latter may arise from the superposition of more than one firing pattern of the contributing units. For example, the inspiratory and expiratory peaks of the splanchnic neurogram could arise because the same units fire both in inspiration and expiration, or because some units fire in inspiration and others in expiration. On account of these limitations of the mass recording techniques, the present work, which is a logical extension of that of Gootman and Cohen 12 and of Mannard and Polosa 14, was undertaken. In the course of the latter study 14, the presence of a respiration-locked input was detected, by autocorrelation analysis of single SPN firing, in more than half of the SPNs studied. In the present study we have recorded the activity of single SPNs (or of a few units) simultaneously with that of the phrenic nerve, which we used as an index of the central respiratory cycle, in experimental conditions in which the main reflex loops that connect the respiratory to the