Pattern of cardiorespiratory afferent convergence to solitary tract neurons driven by pulmonary vagal C-fiber stimulation in the mouse
Pattern of cardiorespiratory afferent convergence to solitary tract neurons driven by pulmonary vagal C-fiber stimulation in the mouse
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DOI:
10.1152/jn.1998.79.5.2365
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发表时间:
1998-05-01
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2.5
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Paton, JFR
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Paton, JFR
The central integration of signals from pulmonary vagal C-fibers (or type-J receptors) with those arising from cardiac, peripheral chemoreceptor, and baroreceptor afferents to neurons within the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) was studied in an arterially perfused working heart-brain stem preparation of adult mouse. Pulmonary vagal C-fibers were excited by right atrial injection of phenylbiguanide (PBG) while cardiac receptors were stimulated by left ventricular injection of veratridine (1-3 mu g/kg) or mechanically by distension of the left ventricle (20-50 mu 1 perfusate) using an indwelling cannula. Carotid body chemoreceptors were activated by aortic injection of Na cyanide, whereas baroreceptors were stimulated by increasing arterial perfusion pressure. Stimulation of pulmonary C-fibers and cardiac, chemo-, and baroreceptors all produced a reflex bradycardia (23-133 bpm). Central respiratory activity, as recorded from the phrenic nerve, was depressed by stimulating pulmonary C-fibers and cardiac and baroreceptors but enhanced in amplitude and frequency during chemoreceptor stimulation. Twenty-seven NTS neurons were excited and three were inhibited after pulmonary C-fiber stimulation displaying decrementing discharges with a peak firing frequency of up to 42 Hz (15 +/- 2.2 Hz, mean +/- SE) that lasted for 8.8 +/- 0.9 s. These responses occurred