Neural control of a molluscan blood vessel, anterior aorta of aplysia.
Neural control of a molluscan blood vessel, anterior aorta of aplysia.
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软体动物血管、海兔前主动脉的神经控制。
DOI:
10.1152/jn.1981.46.5.967
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
McAdoo,DJ
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作者:
Sawada,M;Blankenship,JE;McAdoo,DJ
We describe several characteristics of the neural control of the anterior aorta of the marine mollusk Aplysia. This vessel receives input from motoneurons newly described here and from cell R14, whose presumed transmitter, glycine, enhances vascular tone (37).On leaving the ventricle of the heart of Aplysia, the blood is distributed into three major arterial trunks: the gastroesophageal artery, the abdominal aorta, and the anterior aorta (12, 19). Mayeri, Koester, and coworkers (27, 28, 30, 3 1) have provided a detailed account of the motor innervation of the heart, abdominal aorta, and gastroesophageal artery of A. californica. They identified seven motoneurons that directly excite arterial muscle and excite or inhibit the heart (3 1) and described the transmitters used by certain of these motoneurons (30). Four of the cells innervate the heart: RBHE (= R 17) and LDHE are heart excitors, and two LDHI cells inhibit the heart. RBHE is serotonergic, while the LDHI cells as well as three vasoconstrictor motoneurons, the LBvc cells, are cholinergic (30, 3 1). Two of the LBvc neurons innervate the abdominal aorta and the gastroesophageal artery, and the third LBvc cell innervates the abdominal aorta only (27, 3 1). The LBvc motoneurons produce facilitating EJPs in the arterial vasculature. All seven of these motoneurons send their axons out the pericardial nerve, and none apparently innervates the anterior aorta via this pathway (see Fig. 1). No inhibitory input was found to the two blood vessels studied by this group. The role of interneurons I, II, and XI in coordinating vascular activity was also described (27, 28; see also Refs. 8, 26).