Pulmonary afferent fibres of small diameter stimulated by capsaicin and by hyperinflation of the lungs.
Pulmonary afferent fibres of small diameter stimulated by capsaicin and by hyperinflation of the lungs.
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辣椒素和肺部过度充气刺激小直径的肺传入纤维。
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1965
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J. Luck
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H. Coleridge;J. Coleridge;J. Luck
This paper describes experiments in which impulses have been recorded from afferent vagal fibres whose endings were located in the lung. These fibres differed from the pulmonary stretch fibres described by Adrian (1933) and subsequent workers in that their spontaneous activity was sparse and irregular and showed no respiratory modulation at normal ventilation volumes. The fibres were stimulated, however, by inflating the lungs with larger volumes. The fibres appeared to be of small diameter, having a mean conduction velocity of 16 m/sec and a blocking temperature of 1-6° C. These slowly conducting fibres were identified in the following way. Capsaicin, a decylenic acid amide of vanillylamine, injected intravenously produces bradyeardia, systemic hypotension and apnoea (Toh, Lee & Kiang, 1955; Porsz6asz, Such & Porszasz-Gibiszer, 1957). Porsztasz et al. (1957) suggested that this triad of effects was evoked reflexly by stimulation of baroreceptors in the extrapulmonary parts of the pulmonary artery. Subsequently, Coleridge, Coleridge & Kidd (1964) found that although pulmonary arterial baroreceptors undoubtedly played a part in mediating the reflex effects, some other afferent endings within the vascular bed of the lung itself were probably involved. A search was therefore made for intrapulmonary receptors which were stimulated by capsaicin. The afferent fibres described in the present paper were encountered in the course of this work. They were the only pulmonary fibres consistently stimulated by capsaicin, the drug having little or no effect on the activity of pulmonary stretch fibres of the type described by Adrian (1933).