Effect of substance P in cat dorsal horn neurones activated by noxious stimuli
Effect of substance P in cat dorsal horn neurones activated by noxious stimuli
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P物质对伤害性刺激激活的猫背角神经元的影响
DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(77)90245-1
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发表时间:
1977
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
V. Miletić
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作者:
M. Randić;V. Miletić
Substance P, a peptide originally isolated from the horse brain and gut by yon Euler and Gaddum 4 and recently structurally characterized 2, was found at a higher concentration in the dorsal than in ventral roots1, 5, 13, 16. This fact led Lembeck 13 to suggest that substance P may be the chemical transmitter released from primary afferent fibres. A new support for this concept has been provided by Otsuka and his collaborators who demonstrated in detailed electrophysiological and biochemical studies that:(1) the highest concentration of substance P is present in the dorsal horn of the cat spinal cord, the region where the primary afferent fibres terminate;(2) following ligation and/or sectioning of the dorsal roots the substance P level of the dorsal horn was markedly reduced; and (3) exogenously applied substance P has a depolarizing effect on both frog motoneurones and motoneurones of the newborn rat 10, 11, 15, 1s, ag. In addition, evidence has been presented that microiontophoretic application of synthetic substance P has a strong, although slow, excitatory action in about half of the units tested in the dorsal horn of the cat spinal cord and cuneate nucleus 7, 12. Interestingly, substance P also depolarizes the intramedullary portion of the primary afferents, although the functional significance of this observation is unclear 14.The cellular localization of substance P has recently been examined by immunohistochemical techniques by H6kfelt et al. a, 9. They have demonstrated the occurrence of a very dense network of substance P-positive fibres particularly in Lissauer's fasciculus and laminae l-lII of the cat lumbosacral spinal cord. In addition they have found that after local application of colchicine or compression of the dorsal root close to the spinal ganglion, substance P-positive fluorescence was observed in some of the small neuronal cell bodies. In agreement with the bioassay studies of Takahashi and Otsuka, they found a marked decrease in the number of substance P-positive fibres in Lissauer's tract and laminae I-III after a dorsal root rhizotomy x, 19. The physiological role of substance P-positive fibres in Lissauer's fasciculus and laminae I-III is at persent unknown. However, there is a recent suggestion that they may be related to pain preception 6. Henry 6 has found that microelectrophoretic application of substance P to single units, located in Rexed's laminae IV-VI of the cat