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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-1-24
pubmed:abstractText
Noradrenaline activation of sensory somata that project in damaged peripheral nerves has been postulated to underlie sympathetically-mediated pain. Intracellular recordings from some neurones with myelinated axons in acutely isolated rat dorsal root ganglia showed small prolonged depolarizations to brief applications of 0.1-5 mM noradrenaline whether or not the spinal nerve had been transected. Similar responses were evoked to noradrenaline when phentolamine was present, and also to 1-5 mM catechol, but not 1 mM clonidine, implying the responses were not adrenoceptor-mediated. In extracellular recordings from similar preparations after sciatic transection, many spontaneously active myelinated dorsal root axons were excited by noradrenaline and other sympathomimetics. Silent axons in injured or control ganglia did not respond. Thus, non-specific depolarizations may activate neurones that are hyperexcitable after a lesion but activation of neuronal alpha-adrenoceptors by sympathetically-released noradrenaline seems unlikely.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0959-4965
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2003 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
9-13
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-6-29
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Action Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Adrenergic alpha-Agonists, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Axons, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Catechols, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Clonidine, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Ganglia, Spinal, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Neurons, Afferent, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Norepinephrine, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Phentolamine, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Sciatic Nerve, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Spinal Nerves, pubmed-meshheading:12544822-Sympathectomy
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Responses to sympathomimetics in rat sensory neurones after nerve transection.
pubmed:affiliation
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute and the University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't