Activation of GABAA but not GABAB receptors in the NTSblocked bradycardia of chemoreflex in awake rats

Autor: Anne Nosjean, João Carlos Callera, Benedito H. Machado, Leni G.H. Bonagamba, Raul Laguzzi
Přispěvatelé: Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil, Neuropsychopharmacologie moléculaire, cellulaire et fonctionnelle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Rok vydání: 1999
Předmět:
Male
Baclofen
Physiology
[SDV.NEU.NB]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Neurobiology
Peripheral chemoreceptors
MESH: Microinjections
chemistry.chemical_compound
0302 clinical medicine
MESH: Animals
MESH: Receptors
GABA-B

MESH: Receptors
GABA-A

0303 health sciences
MESH: Solitary Nucleus
[SDV.NEU.PC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Psychology and behavior
Muscimol
Chemistry
GABAA receptor
[SDV.NEU.SC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Cognitive Sciences
Chemoreceptor Cells
MESH: Baclofen
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
circulatory and respiratory physiology
medicine.drug
Agonist
medicine.medical_specialty
MESH: Chemoreceptor Cells
Microinjections
MESH: Rats
MESH: Reflex
medicine.drug_class
MESH: Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
GABAB receptor
MESH: Bradycardia
Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
03 medical and health sciences
MESH: GABA Agonists
Physiology (medical)
Internal medicine
Reflex
Bradycardia
Solitary Nucleus
medicine
Animals
Rats
Wistar

GABA Agonists
Microinjection
030304 developmental biology
MESH: Rats
Wistar

Bicuculline
Receptors
GABA-A

MESH: Male
Rats
Endocrinology
Receptors
GABA-B

nervous system
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
MESH: Muscimol
Zdroj: AJP-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
AJP-Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 1999, 276 (6), pp.H1902-H1910. ⟨10.1152/ajpheart.1999.276.6.H1902⟩
AJP-Heart and Circulatory Physiology, American Physiological Society, 1999, 276 (6), pp.H1902-H1910. ⟨10.1152/ajpheart.1999.276.6.H1902⟩
ISSN: 1522-1539
0363-6135
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1999.276.6.h1902
Popis: In the present study we analyzed effects of bilateral microinjections of muscimol (a GABAA agonist) and baclofen (a GABAB agonist) into the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) on bradycardic and pressor responses to chemoreflex activation (potassium cyanide, 40 μg/rat iv) in awake rats. Bilateral microinjections of muscimol (25 and 50 pmol/50 nl) into the NTS increased baseline mean arterial pressure (MAP): 119 ± 8 vs. 107 ± 2 mmHg ( n = 6) and 121 ± 8 vs. 103 ± 3 mmHg ( n= 6), respectively. Muscimol at 25 pmol/50 nl reduced the bradycardic response to chemoreflex activation 5 min after microinjection; with 50 pmol/50 nl the bradycardic response to chemoreflex activation was reduced 5, 15, 30, and 60 min after microinjection. Neither muscimol dose produced an effect on the pressor response of the chemoreflex. Effects of muscimol (50 pmol/50 nl) on basal MAP and on the bradycardic response of the chemoreflex were prevented by prior microinjection of bicuculline (a GABAA antagonist, 40 pmol/50 nl) into the NTS. Bilateral microinjections of baclofen (12.5 and 25 pmol/50 nl) into the NTS produced an increase in baseline MAP [137 ± 9 vs. 108 ± 4 ( n= 7) and 145 ± 5 vs. 105 ± 2 mmHg ( n = 7), respectively], no changes in basal heart rate, and no effects on the bradycardic response; 25 pmol/50 nl only attenuated the pressor response to chemoreflex activation. The data show that activation of GABAA receptors in the NTS produces a significant reduction in the bradycardic response, whereas activation of GABAB receptors produces a significant reduction in the pressor response of the chemoreflex. We conclude that 1) GABAA but not GABAB plays an inhibitory role in neurons of the lateral commissural NTS involved in the parasympathetic component of the chemoreflex and 2) attenuation of the pressor response of the chemoreflex by activation of GABAB receptors may be due to inhibition of sympathoexcitatory neurons in the NTS or may be secondary to the large increase in baseline MAP produced by baclofen.
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