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PubMed1989

[The afferent pathway of the septal nuclei on participation in acupuncture analgesia].

The afferent connections of septal nuclei from the brain areas relating to pain in the rat were studied with HRP, WGA-HRP and CB-HRP methods. Some brain areas relating to pain, for instance, locus coeruleus, raphe nuclei, periaqueductal gray, hypothalamus, lateral habenular nucleus, amygdaloid complex, hippocampus and cingulate cortex, project to medial septal nucleus, lateral nucleus and diagonal band nucleus. The many areas relating to acupuncture analgesia project to septal nuclei, it is possible that the septal nuclei participate in regulating pain in the central nervous system.

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PubMed1989

Influences of airflow in the upper airway upon phasic hypoglossal and phrenic activities: afferent pathways.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the afferent mechanisms for phasic hypoglossal and phrenic responses to airflow changes in the upper airway (UAW). An isolated UAW was produced in decerebrate, unanesthetized, vagotomized, paralyzed and ventilated cats. Activities of both the hypoglossal and phrenic nerves were monitored at hyperoxic (FETCO2 greater than 0.80) normocapnia (FETCO2 = 0.04-0.05). As inspiratory airflow passing through the UAW, hypoglossal activity enhanced significantly while phrenic discharge reduced (p less than 0.01). After bilateral denervation of the superior laryngeal nerve (SLN), enhancements of hypoglossal activity in response to the same level of airflow were much lower whereas reduce in phrenic discharge was eliminated. Combined with sectioning of the glossopharyngeal nerve (GPN), augmentation of hypoglossal response to airflow was even higher. This increase in hypoglossal activity with airflow changes was not discerned when the trigeminal ganglion (TGG) was further destroyed. These results suggest that airflow changes in the UAW, which was sensed by the receptors in the SLN, GPN, and TGG, produce an increase in hypoglossal discharge and a decrease in phrenic burst. Increase in hypoglossal activity in response to airflow change in the UAW may relate to keeping a patent UAW.

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PubMed2004

Responses of cells in the rat supraoptic nucleus in vivo to stimulation of afferent pathways are different at different times of the light/dark cycle.

To determine whether the daily rhythms of spike activity in the supraoptic nucleus (SON) were accompanied by changes in the behaviour of its inputs, we used conventional extracellular single cell recordings from cells in the SON of anaesthetized rats while stimulating the contralateral optic nerve and the ipsilateral suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Neurones in the SON region were identified by antidromic activation and classified as oxytocin or vasopressin cells, on the basis of their spontaneous firing patterns. Approximately 27% of both oxytocin (29/108) and vasopressin (39/147) neurones were excited by stimulation of the optic nerve, and the majority of responses had a long latency (>20 ms). Very few oxytocin (3/108) and vasopressin cells (2/147) were inhibited by stimulation of the optic nerve. The pattern of the responses (excitatory, inhibitory or nonresponsive) of oxytocin and vasopressin cells to stimulation of the optic nerve was significantly related to the time of day (chi-square test; P = 0.012, oxytocin cells; P = 0.006, vasopressin cells). The proportion of oxytocin cells excited by stimulation of the optic nerve was highest at ZT 4-8 and lowest at ZT 20-24. For vasopressin cells, it was highest at ZT 12-16 and lowest at ZT 20-24. The proportion of excitatory, inhibitory and complex responses seen in oxytocin and vasopressin cells following stimulation of the SCN also changed and was significantly different at different times of day (oxytocin cells: highest proportion of excitatory responses at ZT 12-16, P = 0.029; chi-square test; vasopressin cells: highest proportion of excitatory responses at ZT 0-4, P = 0.005; chi-square test). Thus, inputs to oxytocin and vasopressin neurones from the optic nerve and some outputs from the SCN changed during the light/dark cycle. Such changes may contribute to the generation of 24-h rhythms in activity of oxytocin and vasopressin neurones and release of the peptides.

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PubMed1984

Anatomical evidence for convergence of olfactory, gustatory, and visceral afferent pathways in mouse cerebral cortex.

Flavor perception requires the neural integration of olfactory, gustatory and, possibly, visceral afferent information. Presently, it is not known where, or how this integration takes place in the brain. Neuroanatomical data presented here suggest that pathways subserving these sensory modalities converge in mouse insular cortex after surprisingly few synaptic relays. Orthograde transport of wheat germ agglutinin conjugated to horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) was used to label main olfactory bulb (MOB) efferents. A projection into layer I of insular cortex was present in every case. Bulb transections were made to provoke anterograde degeneration and EM analysis confirmed that the olfactory projection to insular cortex was a terminal pathway. WGA-HRP injections in the MOB-recipient zone of insular cortex resulted in ortho and retrograde labeling of ascending and descending gustatory-visceral afferent pathways. It is concluded that in the mouse, there is a remarkably direct convergence of olfactory and gustatory-visceral sensory pathways in insular cortex. Together with the descending connections from insular cortex to the amygdala and to brainstem autonomic structures, it is possible that the cortical integration of olfactory and gustatory-visceral information could modulate mechanisms involved in food selection and autonomic reactions relating to the chemical senses. Basic mechanisms subserving flavor perception might be usefully modelled in mouse insular cortex.

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PubMed1979

Inhibitory actions from low and high threshold cutaneous afferents on groups II and III muscle afferent pathways in the spinal cat.

The inhibitory effects caused by volleys in cutaneous afferents on the transmission through some polysynaptic segmental pathways activated by high threshold muscle afferents were studied in chloralose anesthetized, spinal cats. Pathways studied were groups II and III to motoneurones as well as group II to primary afferents. The results suggested that two different mechanisms were involved. One mechanism, with a very slow time course (duration more than 400 ms), is suggested to be an example of presynaptic inhibition between different primary afferent systems. This mechanism required high threshold (greater than or equal to 1.6T) conditioning shocks, and appeared simultaneously with the component II dorsal root potential being evoked by the cutaneous afferent volley. The other mechanism, with a faster time course (duration always below 300 ms), was dependent upon low threshold (less than or equal to 1.5T) cutaneous conditioning volleys. This inhibitory interaction could not be ascribed to the same presynaptic mechanism, but is suggested to be an example of postsynaptic inhibition at an interneuronal level. The presumed disynaptic excitatory pathway from group II muscle afferents to flexor motoneurones was not inhibited by cutaneous conditioning shocks, but could on the contrary be facilitated by activity in low threshold cutaneous afferents, probably at the only interneurone involved in this group II pathway.

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PubMed1997

Involvement of a CCK-dependent capsaicin-sensitive afferent pathway in the inhibitory effect of pinaverium bromide on the colonic motor response to eating in rats.

The effects of pinaverium bromide on the stimulation of colonic motility induced by meal and cholecystokinin (CCK) were investigated in rats chronically fitted with intraparietal electrodes on the proximal colon and previously treated or not by capsaicin. Pinaverium bromide inhibited in a dose-related manner (2-50 mg/kg, per os) the increase in colonic spike burst frequency induced by a 3 g meal or CCK-8 (2 micrograms/kg, i.v.). The CCK-A and CCK-B antagonists, devazepide and L 365260 (100 micrograms/kg, i.p.), respectively, inhibited the postprandial colonic motor response while only L 365260 reduced the CCK-induced stimulation. The effects of pinaverium bromide and CCK antagonists were not observed in capsaicin-treated animals. Moreover, CCK-8 (2 micrograms/kg, i.v.) did not stimulate colonic motility after capsaicin treatment. The inhibition of postprandial colonic motility by pinaverium bromide, given orally at therapeutic doses, involves a CCK-dependent pathway which requires the integrity of capsaicin-sensitive afferents.

Action Potentials↗
PubMed1975

Convergence in a thermal afferent pathway in the rat.

1. In anaesthetized rats, unit activity was recorded in the afferent somatosensory pathway leading from the scrotum. Recording sites were in the dorsal horn near the entry zone of the scrotal nerve, in the ventrobasal complex of the thalamus and in the somatosensory (SI) cortex. During recording, the temperatures of the left and right sides of the scrotum were varied independently. 2. Almost all (64/67) the units in dorsal horn, thalamus and cortex responding specifically to scrotal temperature were equally affected by temperature changes on either side of the scrotum. The receptive fields of these units were bilateral and large, implying a massive convergence of fibres from thermoreceptors on to each central unit. In contrast, mechanosensitive units responded only to unilateral stimulation. 3. As a consequence of the convergence in the thermal pathway, the firing rate of each central unit was a function of an additive combination, often simply the sum, of the temperatures of the two sides of the scrotum. 4. The relationship between firing rate and the temperature of one side of the scrotum was sigmoid, the position, but not the shape, of the curve depending on the temperature at which the opposite side was maintained. An increase in the maintained temperature shifted the sigmoid response curve towards lower temperatures and vice versa. 5. The convergence which this pathway exhibits would be well suited to integration of the temperature of the scrotal skin, but not to spatial discrimination.

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