Neurogenic regulation of cochlear blood flow occurs along the basilar artery, the anterior inferior cerebellar artery and at branch points of the spiral modiolar artery
Autor: | Kai Wonneberger, Philine Wangemann |
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Rok vydání: | 2005 |
Předmět: |
Sympathetic nervous system
Guinea Pigs In Vitro Techniques Gerbil medicine.artery Cerebellum Basilar artery Medicine Animals Neurons Microscopy Video business.industry Anatomy Arteries Sensory Systems Electric Stimulation Anterior inferior cerebellar artery Cochlea Vasomotor System medicine.anatomical_structure Regional Blood Flow Vasoconstriction Basilar Artery Circulatory system sense organs medicine.symptom business Gerbillinae Blood vessel Artery |
Zdroj: | Hearing research. 209(1-2) |
ISSN: | 0378-5955 |
Popis: | The cochlea receives its main blood supply from the basilar artery via the anterior inferior cerebellar artery and the spiral modiolar artery. Morphologic studies have shown sympathetic innervation along the spiral modiolar artery of the gerbil and the guinea pig and functional studies in the isolated in vitro superfused spiral modiolar artery of the gerbil have demonstrated norepinephrine-induced vasoconstrictions via alpha(1A)-adrenergic receptors. It is current unclear whether the sympathetic innervation is physiologically relevant. Stimulation of sympathetic ganglia in guinea pigs has been shown to alter cochlear blood flow in situ. Whether these changes originated from local or more systemic changes in the vascular diameter remained uncertain. The goal of the present study was to demonstrate the presence or absence of neurogenic changes in the diameter of the isolated in vitro superfused spiral modiolar artery, anterior inferior cerebellar artery and basilar artery from the gerbil and the guinea pig. Vascular diameter was monitored by videomicroscopy. Electric field stimulation was used to elicit neurotransmitter release. A reversible inhibitory effect of 10(-6) M tetrodotoxin was taken as criterion to discriminate between neurogenic and myogenic changes in vascular diameter. Mesentery arteries of comparable diameter, which are known to respond with a neurogenic vasoconstriction to electric field stimulation, served as controls. Basilar artery, anterior inferior cerebellar artery, spiral modiolar artery and mesentery arteries constricted in response to electric field stimulation. No dilations were observed. Myogenic and neurogenic vasoconstrictions were observed in all vessels. These observations suggest that the sympathetic innervation of the basilar artery, the anterior inferior cerebellar artery and branch points of the spiral modiolar artery is involved in a physiologically relevant control of the vascular diameter in the gerbil and the guinea pig. |
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