INHIBITION OF SPINAL NOCICEPTIVE INFORMATION BY STIMULATION IN MIDBRAIN OF THE CAT IS BLOCKED BY LIDOCAINE MICROINJECTED IN NUCLEUS RAPHE MAGNUS AND MEDULLARY RETICULAR-FORMATION
INHIBITION OF SPINAL NOCICEPTIVE INFORMATION BY STIMULATION IN MIDBRAIN OF THE CAT IS BLOCKED BY LIDOCAINE MICROINJECTED IN NUCLEUS RAPHE MAGNUS AND MEDULLARY RETICULAR-FORMATION
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DOI:
10.1152/jn.1983.50.6.1446
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
ZIMMERMANN, M
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作者:
GEBHART, GF;SANDKUHLER, J;ZIMMERMANN, M
The organization in the brain stem of descending inhibitory control of spinal nociceptive information was studied in anesthetized, paralyzed cats by quantitatively evaluating the effects of reversible blocks produced by lidocaine microinjected in the medial and/or lateral medulla. Spinal neuronal inhibition produced by stimulation in the nucleus raphe magnus (NRMS) was compared to the inhibition of the same dorsal horn neurons produced by stimulation 2 mm lateral in the medullary reticular formation (MRFS). When the inhibition was blocked by lidocaine microinjected in those medullary sites, the efficacy of spinal neuronal inhibition produced by stimulation in the midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAGS) and 4 mm lateral in the reticular formation (LRFS) was evaluated and compared with the inhibition produced before microinjection of lidocaine. All 32 spinal dorsal horn neurons studied responded to hindlimb cutaneous nerve stimulation at strengths supramaximal for activation of A-.alpha.,.delta.- and C-fibers, to mechanical stimuli applied to the skin, and 27 also responded to noxious radiant heating (50.degree. C, 10 s) of the skin of the foot- or toepads (5 U had receptive fields in the hairy skin of the hindlimb). The noxious heat-evoked responses of all units studied were inhibited by NRMS or MRFS. The responses of the spinal units studied to graded noxious heating of the skin was a monotonic linear function throughout the temperature range employed (42.degree.-50.degree. C). MRFS shifted this stimulus response function (SRF) to the right, raising significantly the threshold of response a mean 2.2.degree. C to noxious heating of the skin without significantly affecting the slope of the SRF. Lidocaine (10 .mu.g in 1 .mu.l) microinjected in either the nucleus raphe magnus (NRM) or medullary reticular formation (MRF) did not affect the heat-evoked responses or increase the spontaneous activity of dorsal horn neurons. Lidocaine microinjected in the NRM blocked the spinal inhibition produced by stimulation in the NRM but did not affect the efficacy of spinal inhibition produced by MRFS nor affect neuronal inhibition produced by PAGS or LRFS. Lidocaine microinjected in the MRF blocked the inhibitory effects of MRFS without affecting the efficacy of NRMS, PAGS, or LRFS. The spinal inhibition produced by PAGS or LRFS was affected only when lidocaine was microinjected and simultaneously blocked both the medial and lateral medulla. The data contradict the view that the analgesia and descending inhibition produced by PAGS is dependent on a bulbar relay in the NRM.