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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-6-3
pubmed:abstractText
1. The present study investigated the possibility that pre- and postganglionic neurones innervating the kidney and spleen in rats are affected by descending inhibitory as well as descending excitatory influences. This hypothesis was tested by comparing the effects of cervical spinal cord transection to the effects of blockade of tonic activity of excitatory neurones in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM). 2. Electrical discharge of multifibre postganglionic renal and splenic and preganglionic greater splanchnic nerves and 13th thoracic (T13) white rami was recorded in artificially respired, urethane-anaesthetized rats. In one group of rats, descending supraspinal pathways were interrupted by cervical spinal cord transection. In another group, tonic activity of rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) neurones was blocked by bilateral microinjections of the inhibitory amino acid glycine. The effects of spinal cord transection were compared to effects of this bilateral RVLM blockade and to effects of unilateral RVLM blockade described in a previous study. 3. Spinal cord transection caused decreases in preganglionic greater splanchnic and postganglionic splenic nerves which were of the same magnitude as those caused by bilateral blockade of the RVLM. 4. In contrast, discharge of renal nerves was decreased more by bilateral RVLM blockade than by cervical spinal cord transection. Similarly, even unilateral RVLM blockade caused greater decreases in discharge of T13 white rami than were caused by spinal cord transection. 5. These findings suggest that renal nerves and their preganglionic inputs (T13 white rami) are controlled in part by tonic sympathoinhibitory influences which can be unmasked by blockade of the RVLM. These sympathoinhibitory influences do not appear to affect the activity of splanchnic and splenic nerves.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0022-3751
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
434
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
295-306
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Evidence for descending tonic inhibition specifically affecting sympathetic pathways to the kidney in rats.
pubmed:affiliation
John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't