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Journal of Veterinary Science ; : 459-464, 2014.
Article Dans Anglais | WPRIM | ID: wpr-24555

Résumé

Natural toxic substances have a bitter taste and their ingestion sends signals to the brain leading to aversive oral sensations. In the present study, we investigated chronological changes in c-Fos immunoreactivity in the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) to study the bitter taste reaction time of neurons in the NTS. Equal volumes (0.5 mL) of denatonium benzoate (DB), a bitter tastant, or its vehicle (distilled water) were administered to rats intragastrically. The rats were sacrificed at 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 h after treatment. In the vehicle-treated group, the number of c-Fos-positive nuclei started to increase 0.5 h after treatment and peaked 2 h after gavage. In contrast, the number of c-Fos-positive nuclei in the DB-treated group significantly increased 1 h after gavage. Thereafter, the number of c-Fos immunoreactive nuclei decreased over time. The number of c-Fos immunoreactive nuclei in the NTS was also increased in a dose-dependent manner 1 h after gavage. Subdiaphragmatic vagotomy significantly decreased DB-induced neuronal activation in the NTS. These results suggest that intragastric DB increases neuronal c-Fos expression in the NTS 1 h after gavage and this effect is mediated by vagal afferent fibers.


Sujets)
Animaux , Mâle , Rats , Adjuvants immunologiques/pharmacologie , Voies afférentes/physiologie , Injections/médecine vétérinaire , Ligands , Protéines proto-oncogènes c-fos/métabolisme , Composés d'ammonium quaternaire/pharmacologie , Rat Sprague-Dawley , Récepteurs couplés aux protéines G/métabolisme , Noyau du tractus solitaire/physiologie , Nerf vague/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
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Braz. j. med. biol. res ; 38(7)July 2005. ilus
Article Dans Anglais | LILACS | ID: lil-403868

Résumé

We investigated the effects of bilateral injections of the GABA receptor agonists muscimol (GABA A) and baclofen (GABA B) into the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) on the bradycardia and hypotension induced by iv serotonin injections (5-HT, 2 æg/rat) in awake male Holtzman rats. 5-HT was injected in rats with stainless steel cannulas implanted bilaterally in the NTS, before and 5, 15, and 60 min after bilateral injections of muscimol or baclofen into the NTS. The responses to 5-HT were tested before and after the injection of atropine methyl bromide. Muscimol (50 pmol/50 nl, N = 8) into the NTS increased basal mean arterial pressure (MAP) from 115 ± 4 to 144 ± 6 mmHg, did not change basal heart rate (HR) and reduced the bradycardia (-40 ± 14 and -73 ± 26 bpm at 5 and 15 min, respectively, vs -180 ± 20 bpm for the control) and hypotension (-11 ± 4 and -14 ± 4 mmHg, vs -40 ± 9 mmHg for the control) elicited by 5-HT. Baclofen (12.5 pmol/50 nl, N = 7) into the NTS also increased basal MAP, but did not change basal HR, bradycardia or hypotension in response to 5-HT injections. Atropine methyl bromide (1 mg/kg body weight) injected iv reduced the bradycardic and hypotensive responses to 5-HT injections. The stimulation of GABA A receptors in the NTS of awake rats elicits a significant increase in basal MAP and decreases the cardiac Bezold-Jarisch reflex responses to iv 5-HT injections.


Sujets)
Animaux , Mâle , Rats , Pression sanguine/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Agonistes GABA/pharmacologie , Rythme cardiaque/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Récepteurs GABA-A/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Sérotonine/pharmacologie , Noyau du tractus solitaire/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Baclofène/pharmacologie , Bradycardie/physiopathologie , Hypotension artérielle/physiopathologie , Muscimol/pharmacologie , Rat Sprague-Dawley , Récepteurs GABA-A/physiologie , Sérotonine/administration et posologie , Noyau du tractus solitaire/physiologie
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Braz. j. med. biol. res ; 38(1): 105-110, Jan. 2005. graf
Article Dans Anglais | LILACS | ID: lil-405541

Résumé

The nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) plays an important role in the control of autonomic reflex functions. Glutamate, acting on N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and non-NMDA ionotropic receptors, is the major neurotransmitter in this nucleus, and the relative contribution of each receptor to signal transmission is unclear. We have examined NMDA excitatory postsynaptic currents (NMDA-EPSCs) in the subpostremal NTS using the whole cell patch clamp technique on a transverse brainstem slice preparation. The NMDA-EPSCs were evoked by stimulation of the solitary tract over a range of membrane potentials. The NMDA-EPSCs, isolated pharmacologically, presented the characteristic outward rectification and were completely blocked by 50 æM DL-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid. The I-V relationship of the NMDA response shows that current, with a mean (± SEM) amplitude of -41.2 ± 5.5 pA, is present even at a holding potential of -60 mV, suggesting that the NMDA receptors are weakly blocked by extracellular Mg2+ at near resting membrane potentials. This weak block can also be inferred from the value of 0.67 ± 0.17 for parameter delta obtained from a fit of the Woodhull equation to the I-V relationship. The maximal inward current measured on the I-V relationship was at -38.7 ± 4.2 mV. The decay phase of the NMDA currents was fitted with one exponential function with a decay time constant of 239 ± 51 and 418 ± 80 ms at a holding potential of -60 and +50 mV, respectively, which became slower with depolarization (e-fold per 145 mV). The biophysical properties of the NMDA receptors observed in the present study suggest that these receptors in the NTS contain NR2C subunits and may contribute to the synaptic signal integration.


Sujets)
Animaux , Mâle , Femelle , Rats , Neurones/composition chimique , Récepteurs du N-méthyl-D-aspartate/analyse , Noyau du tractus solitaire/cytologie , Synapses/physiologie , Transmission synaptique/physiologie , Électrophysiologie , Potentiels de membrane/physiologie , Neurones/physiologie , Techniques de patch-clamp , Rat Wistar , Noyau du tractus solitaire/physiologie
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Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Medical Sciences) ; (6): 263-4, 268, 2005.
Article Dans Anglais | WPRIM | ID: wpr-641009

Résumé

This experiment aimed to investigate the effect of adrenergic system in the subnucleus commissuriu of nucleus solitrius tractus (CNTS) on renal nerve discharges. Norepinephrine (NE) was microinjected into the CNTS of rabbits and mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and renal nerve discharges (FRND) were synchronously recorded. The results indicated that (1) microinjection of norepinephine into the CNTS of rabbit could significantly attenuate the frequency of renal nerve discharge, and at the same time decrease markedly the mean arterial pressure. (2) Microinjection of 0.3 nmol yohimbin into CNTS had no significant influence on FRND and MAP, but could attenuate and even reverse the effects of NE on FRND and MAP. These results suggest that microinjection of NE into CNTS may activate the alpha-adrenorecptor located in CNTS and secondarily produce a depressor effect by attenuating the activity of periphenal sympathetic nervous system.


Sujets)
Pression sanguine/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Dépression chimique , Rein/innervation , Microinjections , Norépinéphrine/pharmacologie , Noyau du tractus solitaire/physiologie , Système nerveux sympathique/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Système nerveux sympathique/physiopathologie , Système vasomoteur/physiopathologie
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Braz. j. med. biol. res ; 31(9): 1185-95, sept. 1998.
Article Dans Anglais | LILACS | ID: lil-222966

Résumé

The present article contains a brief review on the role of vasopressinergic projections to the nucleus tractus solitarii in the genesis of reflex bradycardia and in the modulation of heart rate control during exercise. The effects of vasopressin on exercise tachycardia are discussed on the basis of both the endogenous peptide content changes and the heart rate response changes observed during running in sedentary and trained rats. Dynamic exercise caused a specific vasopressin content increase in dorsal and ventral brainstem areas. In accordance, rats pretreated with the peptide or the V1 blocker into the nucleus tractus solitarii showed a significant potentiation or a marked blunting of the exercise tachycardia, respectively, without any change in the pressure response to exercise. It is proposed that the long-descending vasopressinergic pathway to the nucleus tractus solitarii serves as one link between the two main neural controllers of circulation, i.e., the central command and feedback control mechanisms driven by the peripheral receptors. Therefore, vasopressinergic input could contribute to the adjustment of heart rate response (and cardiac output) to the circulatory demand during exercise.


Sujets)
Rats , Animaux , Pression sanguine/physiologie , Exercice physique/physiologie , Rythme cardiaque/physiologie , Noyau du tractus solitaire/physiologie , Vasopressines/physiologie , Baroréflexe/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Baroréflexe/physiologie , Bradycardie , Tronc cérébral/physiologie , Rythme cardiaque/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Muscles squelettiques/physiologie , Noyau du tractus solitaire/métabolisme , Vasoconstricteurs/pharmacologie , Vasopressines/pharmacologie
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Braz. j. med. biol. res ; 30(4): 533-43, Apr. 1997.
Article Dans Anglais | LILACS | ID: lil-191391

Résumé

The nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) receives afferent projections from the arterial baroreceptors, carotid chemoreceptors and cardiopulmonary receptors and as a function of this information produces autonomic adjustments in order to maintain arterial blood pressure within a narrow range of variation.The activation of each of these cardiovascular afferents produces a specific autonomic response by the excitation of neuronal projections from the NTS to the ventrolateral areas of the medulla (nucleus ambiguus, caudal and rostral ventrolateral medulla). The neurotransmitters at the NTS level as well as the excitatory amino acid (EAA) receptors involved in the processing of the autonomic responses in the NTS, although extensively studied, remain to be completely elucidated. In the present review we discuss the role of the EAA L-glutamate and its different receptor subtypes in the processing of the cardiovascular reflexes in the NTS. The data presented in this review related to the neurotransmission in the NTS are based on experimental evidence obtained in our laboratory in unanesthetized rats. The two major conclusions of the present review are that a) the excitation of the cardiovagal component by cardiovascular relfex activation (chemo- and Bezold-Jarisch reflexes) or by L-glutamatae microinjection into the NTS is mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, and b) the sympatho-excitatory componente of the chemoreflex and the pressor response to L-glutamate microinjected into the NTS are not affected by an NMDA receptor antagonist, suggesting that the sympatho-excitatory component of these responses is mediated by non-NMDA receptors.


Sujets)
Rats , Animaux , Système cardiovasculaire/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Cellules chimioréceptrices/physiologie , Acide glutamique/pharmacologie , Glycine/pharmacologie , Cyanure de potassium/pharmacologie , Barorécepteurs/physiologie , Récepteurs au glutamate/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Réflexe/physiologie , Sérotonine/pharmacologie , Noyau du tractus solitaire/physiologie , Cellules chimioréceptrices/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Barorécepteurs/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
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Braz. j. med. biol. res ; 27(4): 1017-1032, Apr. 1994.
Article Dans Anglais | LILACS | ID: lil-321741

Résumé

1. The main role of the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) as a relay center for viscerosensory fibers from the periphery and for pathways from modulatory autonomic centers is reviewed on the basis of its anatomical connections and neurotransmitter content. 2. Vasopressin is present in the entire neuroaxis and is of great importance in the control of cardiovascular function. The high endogenous content and receptor density, and the unique organization of vasopressin fibers projecting to the NTS are fundamental features for the modulatory effect exerted by vasopressin at the NTS on the baroreceptor reflex control of heart rate. 3. Vasopressinergic pathways from the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus to the NTS constitute a physiological mechanism for the tonic maintenance of the baroreflex sensitivity and for displacing the heart rate response to higher values during increased activity, without changing the baroreflex sensitivity. This type of mechanism should play an important role in facilitating the tachycardic response during isotonic exercise.


Sujets)
Animaux , Baroréflexe , Rythme cardiaque/physiologie , Noyau du tractus solitaire/physiologie , Vasopressines , Cerveau , Effort physique/physiologie , Rythme cardiaque/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Neuropeptides , Rats , Vasopressines
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