Scratching movements evoked by drugs applied to the upper cervical cord
Scratching movements evoked by drugs applied to the upper cervical cord
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上颈髓涂抹药物引起的抓挠动作
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1960
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通讯作者:
K. Fleischhauer
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作者:
W. Feldberg;K. Fleischhauer
The following experiments give a description of scratching movements elicited, not reflexly, but by the action of drugs when applied topically to the upper cervical cord. The experiments are the outcome of an incidental observation made in cats anaesthetized with pentobarbitone sodium, in which the dye bromophenol blue was perfused through the cerebral ventricles, and its penetration into the brain tissue was studied (Feldberg & Fleischhauer, 1960). In these experiments perfusion was effected from a cannulated lateral ventricle to the cannulated aqueduct, and as long as the dye did not enter the subarachnoid space no central effects were observed. However, in a few experiments in which the dye leaked out into the subarachnoid space, either along the outside of the aqueductal cannula or because of rupture of the thin roof of the posterior part of the third ventricle, strong myoclonic movements of the hind legs occurred. They were regularly produced when the dye was perfused from the lateral ventricle to the cisterna. These findings suggested that bromophenol blue had a central excitatory action when present in the subarachnoid space but not when passing through the cerebral ventricles or the aqueduct. When trying to locate the site of action of bromophenol blue by topical application to different parts of the cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem and spinal cord, it was found that the myoclonic movements could be elicited only from a restricted area of the dorsal surface of the upper cervical cord and that they showed a striking resemblance to those of a normal scratch reflex. Further, similar scratching movements were obtained from the same area with tubocurarine, which is known to produce muscular effects also when perfused from the lateral ventricle to the aqueduct, that is, without passing into the subarachnoid space (Feldberg & Malcolm, 1959).