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Taylor-Clark TE, Undem BJ. Neural control of the lower airways: Role in cough and airway inflammatory disease. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2022; 188:373-391. [PMID: 35965034 PMCID: PMC10688079 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-91534-2.00013-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Airway function is under constant neurophysiological control, in order to maximize airflow and gas exchange and to protect the airways from aspiration, damage, and infection. There are multiple sensory nerve subtypes, whose disparate functions provide a wide array of sensory information into the CNS. Activation of these subtypes triggers specific reflexes, including cough and alterations in autonomic efferent control of airway smooth muscle, secretory cells, and vasculature. Importantly, every aspect of these reflex arcs can be impacted and altered by local inflammation caused by chronic lung disease such as asthma, bronchitis, and infections. Excessive and inappropriate activity in sensory and autonomic nerves within the airways is thought to contribute to the morbidity and symptoms associated with lung disease.
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- Thomas E Taylor-Clark
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
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Rouadi PW, Idriss SA, Bousquet J, Laidlaw TM, Azar CR, Sulaiman AL-Ahmad M, Yáñez A, AL-Nesf MAY, Nsouli TM, Bahna SL, Abou-Jaoude E, Zaitoun FH, Hadi UM, Hellings PW, Scadding GK, Smith PK, Morais-Almeida M, Gómez RM, González Díaz SN, Klimek L, Juvelekian GS, Riachy MA, Canonica GW, Peden D, Wong GW, Sublett J, Bernstein JA, Wang L, Tanno LK, Chikhladze M, Levin M, Chang YS, Martin BL, Caraballo L, Custovic A, Ortega-Martell JA, Jensen-Jarolim E, Ebisawa M, Fiocchi A, Ansotegui IJ. WAO-ARIA consensus on chronic cough - Part 1: Role of TRP channels in neurogenic inflammation of cough neuronal pathways. World Allergy Organ J 2021; 14:100617. [PMID: 34934475 PMCID: PMC8654622 DOI: 10.1016/j.waojou.2021.100617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Revised: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cough features a complex peripheral and central neuronal network. The function of the chemosensitive and stretch (afferent) cough receptors is well described but partly understood. It is speculated that chronic cough reflects a neurogenic inflammation of the cough reflex, which becomes hypersensitive. This is mediated by neuromediators, cytokines, inflammatory cells, and a differential expression of neuronal (chemo/stretch) receptors, such as transient receptor potential (TRP) and purinergic P2X ion channels; yet the overall interaction of these mediators in neurogenic inflammation of cough pathways remains unclear. OBJECTIVES The World Allergy Organization/Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (WAO/ARIA) Joint Committee on Chronic Cough reviewed the current literature on neuroanatomy and pathophysiology of chronic cough. The role of TRP ion channels in pathogenic mechanisms of the hypersensitive cough reflex was also examined. OUTCOMES Chemoreceptors are better studied in cough neuronal pathways compared to stretch receptors, likely due to their anatomical overabundance in the respiratory tract, but also their distinctive functional properties. Central pathways are important in suppressive mechanisms and behavioral/affective aspects of chronic cough. Current evidence strongly suggests neurogenic inflammation induces a hypersensitive cough reflex marked by increased expression of neuromediators, mast cells, and eosinophils, among others. TRP ion channels, mainly TRP V1/A1, are important in the pathogenesis of chronic cough due to their role in mediating chemosensitivity to various endogenous and exogenous triggers, as well as a crosstalk between neurogenic and inflammatory pathways in cough-associated airways diseases.
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- Philip W. Rouadi
- Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Eye and Ear University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Eye and Ear University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
- Department of Audiology and Otoneurological Evaluation, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France
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- Hospital Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Comprehensive Allergy Center, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
- Macvia France, Montpellier France
- Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Gastroenterology, American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC), Beirut, Lebanon
- Department of Gastroenterology, Middle East Institute of Health (MEIH), Beirut, Lebanon
- Department of Gastroenterology, Clemenceau Medical Center (CMC), Beirut, Lebanon
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- INAER - Investigaciones en Alergia y Enfermedades Respiratorias, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Allergy and Immunology Section, Department of Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, P.O. Box 3050, Doha, Qatar
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- Allergy & Immunology Section, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, USA
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- Department of Allergy Otolaryngology, LAU-RIZK Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Clinical Professor Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
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- KU Leuven Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Laboratory of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Leuven, Belgium
- University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Leuven, Belgium
- University Hospital Ghent, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Laboratory of Upper Airways Research, Ghent, Belgium
- Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Clinical Medicine Griffith University, Southport Qld, 4215, Australia
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- Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Hospital Universitario and Facultad de Medicina, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
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- Center for Rhinology and Allergology, Wiesbaden, Germany
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- Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Hôtel-Dieu de France University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Humanitas University, Personalized Medicine Asthma & Allergy Clinic-Humanitas Research Hospital-IRCCS-Milano Italy
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- UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics UNS School of Medicine, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Allergy and Immunology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, 9800 Shelbyville Rd, Louisville, KY, USA
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Immunology/Allergy Section, Cincinnati
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- Department of Allergy, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine for Diagnosis and Treatment of Allergic Disease, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Beijing 100730, China
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- Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Desbrest Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, UMR UA-11, INSERM University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- WHO Collaborating Centre on Scientific Classification Support, Montpellier, France
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- Medical Faculty at Akaki Tsereteli State University, National Institute of Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, KuTaisi, Tskaltubo, Georgia
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- Division of Paediatric Allergology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, South Korea
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Division of Allergy & Immunology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Institute for Immunological Research, University of Cartagena. Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
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- National Heart and Lund Institute, Imperial College London, UK
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- Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University Vienna, Austria
- The Interuniversity Messerli Research Institute, Medical University Vienna and Univ, of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
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- Clinical Research Center for Allergy and Rheumatology,National Hospital Organization Sagamihara National Hospital, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Translational Pediatric Research Area, Allergic Diseases Research Unit, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Holy See
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- Department of Allergy and Immunology, Hospital Quironsalud Bizkaia, Bilbao, Spain
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Taylor-Clark TE. Molecular identity, anatomy, gene expression and function of neural crest vs. placode-derived nociceptors in the lower airways. Neurosci Lett 2020; 742:135505. [PMID: 33197519 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2020.135505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Revised: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The lower airways (larynx to alveoli) are protected by a complex array of neural networks that regulate respiration and airway function. Harmful stimuli trigger defensive responses such as apnea, cough and bronchospasm by activating a subpopulation of sensory afferent nerves (termed nociceptors) which are found throughout the airways. Airway nociceptive fibers are projected from the nodose vagal ganglia, the jugular vagal ganglia and the dorsal root ganglia, which are derived from distinct embryological sources: the former from the epibranchial placodes, the latter two from the neural crest. Embryological source determines nociceptive gene expression of receptors and neurotransmitters and recent evidence suggests that placode- and neural crest-derived nociceptors have distinct stimuli sensitivity, innervation patterns and functions. Improved understanding of the function of each subset in specific reflexes has substantial implications for therapeutic targeting of the neuronal components of airway disease such as asthma, viral infections and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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- Thomas E Taylor-Clark
- Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B Downs Blvd., Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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Driessen AK, McGovern AE, Behrens R, Moe AAK, Farrell MJ, Mazzone SB. A role for neurokinin 1 receptor expressing neurons in the paratrigeminal nucleus in bradykinin-evoked cough in guinea-pigs. J Physiol 2020; 598:2257-2275. [PMID: 32237239 DOI: 10.1113/jp279644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS Airway projecting sensory neurons arising from the jugular vagal ganglia terminate centrally in the brainstem paratrigeminal nucleus, synapsing upon neurons expressing the neurokinin 1 receptor. This study aimed to assess the involvement of paratrigeminal neurokinin 1 receptor neurons in the regulation of cough, breathing and airway defensive responses. Lesioning neurokinin 1 receptor expressing paratrigeminal neurons significantly reduced cough evoked by inhaled bradykinin but not inhaled ATP or tracheal mechanical stimulation. The reduction in bradykinin-evoked cough was not accompanied by changes in baseline or evoked respiratory variables (e.g. frequency, volume or timing), animal avoidance behaviours or the laryngeal apnoea reflex. These findings warrant further investigations into targeting the jugular ganglia and paratrigeminal nucleus as a therapy for treating cough in disease. ABSTRACT Jugular vagal ganglia sensory neurons innervate the large airways and are thought to mediate cough and associated perceptions of airway irritations to a range of chemical irritants. The central terminals of jugular sensory neurons lie within the brainstem paratrigeminal nucleus, where postsynaptic neurons can be differentiated based on the absence or presence of the neurokinin 1 (NK1) receptor. Therefore, in the present study, we set out to test the hypothesis that NK1 receptor expressing paratrigeminal neurons play a role in cough evoked by inhaled chemical irritants. To test this, we performed selective neurotoxin lesions of NK1 receptor expressing neurons in the paratrigeminal nucleus in guinea-pigs using substance P conjugated to saporin (SSP-SAP). Sham lesion control or SSP-SAP lesion guinea-pigs received nebulised challenges, with the pan-nociceptor stimulant bradykinin or the nodose ganglia specific stimulant adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), in conscious whole-body plethysmography to study cough and associated behaviours. Laryngeal apnoea reflexes and cough evoked by mechanical stimulation of the trachea were additionally investigated in anaesthetised guinea-pigs. SSP-SAP significantly and selectively reduced the number of NK1 receptor expressing neurons in the paratrigeminal nucleus. This was associated with a significant reduction in bradykinin-evoked cough, but not ATP-evoked cough, mechanical cough or laryngeal apnoeic responses. These data provide further evidence for a role of jugular vagal pathways in cough, and additionally suggest an involvement of NK1 receptor expressing neurons in the paratrigeminal nucleus. Therefore, this neural pathway may provide novel therapeutic opportunities to treat conditions of chronic cough.
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- Alexandria K Driessen
- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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Satia I, Nagashima A, Usmani OS. Exploring the role of nerves in asthma; insights from the study of cough. Biochem Pharmacol 2020; 179:113901. [PMID: 32156662 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2020.113901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Cough in asthma predicts disease severity, prognosis, and is a common and troublesome symptom. Cough is the archetypal airway neuronal reflex, yet little is understood about the underlying neuronal mechanisms. It is generally assumed that symptoms arise because of airway hyper-responsiveness and/or airway inflammation, but despite using inhaled corticosteroids and bronchodilators targeting these pathologies, a large proportion of patients have persistent coughing. This review focuses on the prevalence and impact of cough in asthma and explores data from pre-clinical and clinical studies which have explored neuronal mechanisms of cough and asthma. We present evidence to suggest patients with asthma have evidence of neuronal dysfunction, which is further heightened and exaggerated by both bronchoconstriction and airway eosinophilia. Identifying patients with excessive coughing with asthma may represent a neuro-phenotype and hence developing treatment for this symptom is important for reducing the burden of disease on patients' lives and currently represents a major unmet clinical need.
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- I Satia
- McMaster University, Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, Canada; Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph's Hospital, Canada; University of Manchester, Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, and Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom.
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- McMaster University, Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, Canada
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Vilela DAD, Silva BAO, Brito MC, Menezes PMN, Bomfim HF, Duarte-Filho LAMDS, Silva TRDS, Ribeiro LADA, Lucchese AM, Silva FS. Lippia alnifolia essential oil induces relaxation on Guinea-pig trachea by multiple pathways. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2020; 246:112162. [PMID: 31419501 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2019.112162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2018] [Revised: 07/22/2019] [Accepted: 08/11/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Lippia alnifolia Mart. & Schauer, known as "alecrim-do-mato", "alecrim-de-vaqueiro" and "pedrécio", is used in folk medicine as antiseptic and to treat diseases that affect respiratory system, like bronchitis and asthma. AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of this work was to investigate the spasmolytic activity and relaxant mechanism of the Lippia alnifolia essential oil (EOLA) on isolated guinea-pig trachea and to correlate with its use in folk medicine. MATERIALS AND METHODS Leaves from L. alnifolia were collected in Pico das Almas, Chapada Diamantina, situated in the city of Rio de Contas, Bahia, Brazil. EOLA was extracted by hydrodistillation, analyzed by GC/FID and GC/MS and the volatile constituents were identified. Spasmolytic activity was assayed in isolated guinea-pig trachea pre-contracted with carbachol 1 μM or histamine 10 μM. Relaxant mechanism of EOLA was determined comparing concentration-response curves in the presence or absence of different blockers. RESULTS Chemical analysis revealed the presence of carvone (60 ± 0.8%) as major constituent. EOLA (1-243 μg/mL) relaxed isolated guinea-pig trachea pre-contracted with carbachol 1 μM [EC50 = 53.36 (44.75-63.51) μg/mL] or histamine 10 μM [EC50 = 5.42 (4.42-6.65) μg/mL]. The pre-incubation of 4-aminopyridine in histamine-induced contractions did not alter significantly the relaxant effect of EOLA. However, the presence of cesium chloride, glibenclamide, tetraethylammonium, propranolol, indomethacin, dexamethasone, hexamethonium, atropine, L-NAME, methylene blue or ODQ reduced EOLA relaxant effect. EOLA 18 μg/mL pre-incubation in calcium-free medium reduced histamine-evoked contractions, but did not alter histamine contractions in the presence of nifedipine. CONCLUSIONS Lippia alnifolia essential oil has spasmolytic activity on isolated guinea-pig trachea and its mechanism of action possibly involves the activation of multiple signal transduction pathways, which culminate in potassium channels activation and cytosolic calcium reduction.
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- Laboratório de Farmacologia Experimental, Colegiado de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco (UNIVASF), Brazil.
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- Laboratório de Química de Produtos Naturais e Bioativos, Departamento de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Brazil.
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- Pós-graduação em Biociências, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco (UNIVASF), Brazil; Laboratório de Farmacologia Experimental, Colegiado de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco (UNIVASF), Brazil.
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- Laboratório de Química de Produtos Naturais e Bioativos, Departamento de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Brazil.
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- Pós-graduação em Biociências, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco (UNIVASF), Brazil; Laboratório de Farmacologia Experimental, Colegiado de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco (UNIVASF), Brazil.
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Gazzola M, Mailhot-Larouche S, Beucher C, Bossé Y. The underlying physiological mechanisms whereby anticholinergics alleviate asthma. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 2018; 96:433-441. [PMID: 29414243 DOI: 10.1139/cjpp-2017-0448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The mechanisms whereby anticholinergics improve asthma outcomes, such as lung function, symptoms, and rate of exacerbation, can be numerous. The most obvious is by affecting the contraction of airway smooth muscle (ASM). The acetylcholine released from the cholinergic nerves is the most important bronchoconstrictor that sets the baseline degree of contractile activation of ASM in healthy individuals. Although the degree of ASM's contractile activation can also be fine-tuned by a plethora of other bronchoconstrictors and bronchodilators in asthma, blocking the ceaseless effect of acetylcholine on ASM by anticholinergics reduces, at any given moment, the overall degree of contractile activation. Because the relationships that exist between the degree of contractile activation, ASM force, ASM shortening, airway narrowing, airflow resistance, and respiratory resistance are not linear, small decreases in the contractile activation of ASM can be greatly amplified and thus translate into important benefits to a patient's well-being. Plus, many inflammatory and remodeling features that are often found in asthmatic lungs synergize with the contractile activation of ASM to increase respiratory resistance. This review recalls that the proven effectiveness of anticholinergics in the treatment of asthma could be merely attributed to a small reduction in the contractile activation of ASM.
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- Morgan Gazzola
- Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, affiliated with Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec G1V 4G5, Canada.,Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, affiliated with Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec G1V 4G5, Canada
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- Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, affiliated with Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec G1V 4G5, Canada.,Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, affiliated with Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec G1V 4G5, Canada
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- Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, affiliated with Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec G1V 4G5, Canada.,Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, affiliated with Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec G1V 4G5, Canada
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- Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, affiliated with Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec G1V 4G5, Canada.,Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, affiliated with Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec G1V 4G5, Canada
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Mazzone SB, Undem BJ. Vagal Afferent Innervation of the Airways in Health and Disease. Physiol Rev 2017; 96:975-1024. [PMID: 27279650 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00039.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 339] [Impact Index Per Article: 48.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Vagal sensory neurons constitute the major afferent supply to the airways and lungs. Subsets of afferents are defined by their embryological origin, molecular profile, neurochemistry, functionality, and anatomical organization, and collectively these nerves are essential for the regulation of respiratory physiology and pulmonary defense through local responses and centrally mediated neural pathways. Mechanical and chemical activation of airway afferents depends on a myriad of ionic and receptor-mediated signaling, much of which has yet to be fully explored. Alterations in the sensitivity and neurochemical phenotype of vagal afferent nerves and/or the neural pathways that they innervate occur in a wide variety of pulmonary diseases, and as such, understanding the mechanisms of vagal sensory function and dysfunction may reveal novel therapeutic targets. In this comprehensive review we discuss historical and state-of-the-art concepts in airway sensory neurobiology and explore mechanisms underlying how vagal sensory pathways become dysfunctional in pathological conditions.
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- Stuart B Mazzone
- School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia; and Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Asthma & Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia; and Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Asthma & Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland
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Audrit KJ, Delventhal L, Aydin Ö, Nassenstein C. The nervous system of airways and its remodeling in inflammatory lung diseases. Cell Tissue Res 2017; 367:571-590. [PMID: 28091773 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-016-2559-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Inflammatory lung diseases are associated with bronchospasm, cough, dyspnea and airway hyperreactivity. The majority of these symptoms cannot be primarily explained by immune cell infiltration. Evidence has been provided that vagal efferent and afferent neurons play a pivotal role in this regard. Their functions can be altered by inflammatory mediators that induce long-lasting changes in vagal nerve activity and gene expression in both peripheral and central neurons, providing new targets for treatment of pulmonary inflammatory diseases.
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- Katrin Julia Audrit
- Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Aulweg 123, 35385, Giessen, Germany.,German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Aulweg 123, 35385, Giessen, Germany.,German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Aulweg 123, 35385, Giessen, Germany.,German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Aulweg 123, 35385, Giessen, Germany. .,German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany.
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Dapaah G, Koffuor GA, Mante PK, Ben IO. The possible mode of antitussive and expectorant activity of the ethanol seed extracts of Picralima nitida ((Stapf) Th. & H. Durand). J Tradit Complement Med 2017; 7:133-140. [PMID: 28053900 PMCID: PMC5198831 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcme.2016.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2015] [Revised: 03/24/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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It has been established that Picralima nitida has antitussive effect. This study therefore aimed at determining the possible mode of antitussive and expectorant activity of an ethanolic seed extract of P. nitida (PNE). The muco-suppressant, mast cell stabilization, and the anxiolytic effects of PNE were ascertained using ammonium chloride-induced phenol red secretion in BALB/c mice; compound 48/80-induced mesenteric mast cell degranulation assay; and the open field and the elevated plus maze models respectively. Antibacterial potential was ascertained by the agar plate diffusion method and its antioxidant potential by the 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl hydrate (DPPH) free radical scavenging, linoleic acid lipid peroxidation, reducing power, and total antioxidant assays. Data obtained was analyzed using One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Dunnett's Multiple Comparison post hoc test. PNE (100-500 mg/kg) reduced (P ≤ 0.05-0.001) tracheal phenol red secretion. The extract (100-500 μg/ml) also dose-dependently (P ≤ 0.05-0.0001) stabilized mast cells. PNE (100-500 mg/kg) increased open arm activities in the elevated plus maze (P ≤ 0.05) as well as central zone exploration (P ≤ 0.05) in the open field test. PNE (10-50 mg/ml) showed activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumonia, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, and Salmonella typhi. By the assays, PNE showed significant antioxidant effect. The ethanolic seed extract of P. nitida has demonstrated very significant mast cell stabilizing, mucus suppressant, and antioxidant activity as well as substantial antibacterial and anxiolytic properties; all of which could contribute to its antitussive and expectorant property.
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- Gabriel Dapaah
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Madonna University, Elele Campus, Rivers State, Nigeria
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Hewitt MM, Adams G, Mazzone SB, Mori N, Yu L, Canning BJ. Pharmacology of Bradykinin-Evoked Coughing in Guinea Pigs. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2016; 357:620-8. [PMID: 27000801 PMCID: PMC4885511 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.115.230383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2015] [Accepted: 03/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Bradykinin has been implicated as a mediator of the acute pathophysiological and inflammatory consequences of respiratory tract infections and in exacerbations of chronic diseases such as asthma. Bradykinin may also be a trigger for the coughing associated with these and other conditions. We have thus set out to evaluate the pharmacology of bradykinin-evoked coughing in guinea pigs. When inhaled, bradykinin induced paroxysmal coughing that was abolished by the bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist HOE 140. These cough responses rapidly desensitized, consistent with reports of B2 receptor desensitization. Bradykinin-evoked cough was potentiated by inhibition of both neutral endopeptidase and angiotensin-converting enzyme (with thiorphan and captopril, respectively), but was largely unaffected by muscarinic or thromboxane receptor blockade (atropine and ICI 192605), cyclooxygenase, or nitric oxide synthase inhibition (meclofenamic acid and N(G)-nitro-L-arginine). Calcium influx studies in bronchopulmonary vagal afferent neurons dissociated from vagal sensory ganglia indicated that the tachykinin-containing C-fibers arising from the jugular ganglia mediate bradykinin-evoked coughing. Also implicating the jugular C-fibers was the observation that simultaneous blockade of neurokinin2 (NK2; SR48968) and NK3 (SR142801 or SB223412) receptors nearly abolished the bradykinin-evoked cough responses. The data suggest that bradykinin induces coughing in guinea pigs by activating B2 receptors on bronchopulmonary C-fibers. We speculate that therapeutics targeting the actions of bradykinin may prove useful in the treatment of cough.
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- Matthew M Hewitt
- The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland (G.A., N.M., B.J.C.); University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (M.M.H.); University of Queensland, Australia (S.B.M.); and Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China (L.Y.)
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- The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland (G.A., N.M., B.J.C.); University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (M.M.H.); University of Queensland, Australia (S.B.M.); and Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China (L.Y.)
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- The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland (G.A., N.M., B.J.C.); University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (M.M.H.); University of Queensland, Australia (S.B.M.); and Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China (L.Y.)
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- The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland (G.A., N.M., B.J.C.); University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (M.M.H.); University of Queensland, Australia (S.B.M.); and Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China (L.Y.)
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- The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland (G.A., N.M., B.J.C.); University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (M.M.H.); University of Queensland, Australia (S.B.M.); and Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China (L.Y.)
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- The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland (G.A., N.M., B.J.C.); University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (M.M.H.); University of Queensland, Australia (S.B.M.); and Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China (L.Y.)
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McGovern AE, Robusto J, Rakoczy J, Simmons DG, Phipps S, Mazzone SB. The effect of hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channel inhibitors on the vagal control of guinea pig airway smooth muscle tone. Br J Pharmacol 2016; 171:3633-50. [PMID: 24762027 DOI: 10.1111/bph.12745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2013] [Revised: 02/10/2014] [Accepted: 02/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Subtypes of the hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) family of cation channels are widely expressed on nerves and smooth muscle cells in many organ systems, where they serve to regulate membrane excitability. Here we have assessed whether HCN channel inhibitors alter the function of airway smooth muscle or the neurons that regulate airway smooth muscle tone. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH The effects of the HCN channel inhibitors ZD7288, zatebradine and Cs(+) were assessed on agonist and nerve stimulation-evoked changes in guinea pig airway smooth muscle tone using tracheal strips in vitro, an innervated tracheal tube preparation ex vivo or in anaesthetized mechanically ventilated guinea pigs in vivo. HCN channel expression in airway nerves was assessed using immunohistochemistry, PCR and in situ hybridization. KEY RESULTS HCN channel inhibition did not alter airway smooth muscle reactivity in vitro to exogenously administered smooth muscle spasmogens, but significantly potentiated smooth muscle contraction evoked by the sensory nerve stimulant capsaicin and electrical field stimulation of parasympathetic cholinergic postganglionic neurons. Sensory nerve hyperresponsiveness was also evident in in vivo following HCN channel blockade. Cs(+) , but not ZD7288, potentiated preganglionic nerve-dependent airway contractions and over time induced autorhythmic preganglionic nerve activity, which was not mimicked by inhibitors of potassium channels. HCN channel expression was most evident in vagal sensory ganglia and airway nerve fibres. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS HCN channel inhibitors had a previously unrecognized effect on the neural regulation of airway smooth muscle tone, which may have implications for some patients receiving HCN channel inhibitors for therapeutic purposes.
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- Alice E McGovern
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld, Australia
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Keir SD, Spina D, Page CP. Bradykinin and capsaicin induced airways obstruction in the guinea pig are platelet dependent. Pulm Pharmacol Ther 2015; 33:25-31. [PMID: 26006082 DOI: 10.1016/j.pupt.2015.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2015] [Revised: 04/21/2015] [Accepted: 05/14/2015] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Airways obstruction induced by intravenously administered bradykinin is abolished in guinea pigs treated with indomethacin, which has been shown to be, at least in part thromboxane dependent. As thromboxane is primarily generated from circulating platelets, we investigated whether airways obstruction induced by bradykinin, and other spasmogens, is platelet dependent and the role platelet aggregation played in this response. METHODS Guinea pigs were chronically treated with busulfan to induce thrombocytopenia. Total lung resistance was measured in anaesthetised and mechanically ventilated control and thrombocytopaenic animals to various stimuli that induce airways obstruction. In other experiments, platelet aggregation was assessed in vitro in response to the same stimuli: guinea pigs were anaesthetized, blood was collected and centrifuged to generate firstly platelet-rich plasma and then platelet-poor plasma. Platelets were resuspended in HEPES buffer and platelet aggregation was assessed. RESULTS Busulfan treatment significantly reduced the number of circulating platelets in guinea-pigs by 85.5%, but had no significant effect on the number of circulating leukocytes. Treatment with busulfan had no significant effect on bronchoconstriction induced by the direct acting spasmogens histamine or methacholine. However, platelet depletion significantly increased airways obstruction induced by Substance P, but caused a significant reduction in airways obstruction induced by bradykinin, bombesin or capsaicin (P < 0.05). None of these stimuli however were able to exhibit a direct effect on platelet aggregation in vitro. Moreover, busulfan did not significantly alter the contractility of guinea-pig isolated trachea in response to capsaicin. CONCLUSION Airways obstruction induced by bombesin, capsaicin and bradykinin is platelet dependent, but not secondary to platelet aggregation.
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- S D Keir
- Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, 5th Floor Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus, London, SE1 9NH, UK
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- Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, 5th Floor Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus, London, SE1 9NH, UK
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- Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, 5th Floor Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus, London, SE1 9NH, UK.
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Sensory nerves innervating the lung and airways play an important role in regulating various cardiopulmonary functions and maintaining homeostasis under both healthy and disease conditions. Their activities conducted by both vagal and sympathetic afferents are also responsible for eliciting important defense reflexes that protect the lung and body from potential health-hazardous effects of airborne particulates and chemical irritants. This article reviews the morphology, transduction properties, reflex functions, and respiratory sensations of these receptors, focusing primarily on recent findings derived from using new technologies such as neural immunochemistry, isolated airway-nerve preparation, cultured airway neurons, patch-clamp electrophysiology, transgenic mice, and other cellular and molecular approaches. Studies of the signal transduction of mechanosensitive afferents have revealed a new concept of sensory unit and cellular mechanism of activation, and identified additional types of sensory receptors in the lung. Chemosensitive properties of these lung afferents are further characterized by the expression of specific ligand-gated ion channels on nerve terminals, ganglion origin, and responses to the action of various inflammatory cells, mediators, and cytokines during acute and chronic airway inflammation and injuries. Increasing interest and extensive investigations have been focused on uncovering the mechanisms underlying hypersensitivity of these airway afferents, and their role in the manifestation of various symptoms under pathophysiological conditions. Several important and challenging questions regarding these sensory nerves are discussed. Searching for these answers will be a critical step in developing the translational research and effective treatments of airway diseases.
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- Lu-Yuan Lee
- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
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Canning BJ, Chang AB, Bolser DC, Smith JA, Mazzone SB, McGarvey L. Anatomy and neurophysiology of cough: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel report. Chest 2014; 146:1633-1648. [PMID: 25188530 PMCID: PMC4251621 DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-1481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2014] [Accepted: 07/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Bronchopulmonary C-fibers and a subset of mechanically sensitive, acid-sensitive myelinated sensory nerves play essential roles in regulating cough. These vagal sensory nerves terminate primarily in the larynx, trachea, carina, and large intrapulmonary bronchi. Other bronchopulmonary sensory nerves, sensory nerves innervating other viscera, as well as somatosensory nerves innervating the chest wall, diaphragm, and abdominal musculature regulate cough patterning and cough sensitivity. The responsiveness and morphology of the airway vagal sensory nerve subtypes and the extrapulmonary sensory nerves that regulate coughing are described. The brainstem and higher brain control systems that process this sensory information are complex, but our current understanding of them is considerable and increasing. The relevance of these neural systems to clinical phenomena, such as urge to cough and psychologic methods for treatment of dystussia, is high, and modern imaging methods have revealed potential neural substrates for some features of cough in the human.
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- Queensland Children's Respiratory Centre, Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Child Health Division, Menzies School of Health, Darwin, NT, Australia
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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- Centre for Respiratory and Allergy, University of Manchester, Manchester, England
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Infection and Immunity, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Autonomic neural control of the intrathoracic airways aids in optimizing air flow and gas exchange. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, the autonomic nervous system contributes to host defense of the respiratory tract. These functions are accomplished by tightly regulating airway caliber, blood flow, and secretions. Although both the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system innervate the airways, it is the later that dominates, especially with respect to control of airway smooth muscle and secretions. Parasympathetic tone in the airways is regulated by reflex activity often initiated by activation of airway stretch receptors and polymodal nociceptors. This review discusses the preganglionic, ganglionic, and postganglionic mechanisms of airway autonomic innervation. Additionally, it provides a brief overview of how dysregulation of the airway autonomic nervous system may contribute to respiratory diseases.
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Lavinka PC, Dong X. Molecular signaling and targets from itch: lessons for cough. COUGH 2013; 9:8. [PMID: 23497684 PMCID: PMC3630061 DOI: 10.1186/1745-9974-9-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2012] [Accepted: 02/08/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Itch is described as an unpleasant sensation that elicits the desire to scratch, which results in the removal of the irritant from the skin. The cough reflex also results from irritation, with the purpose of removing said irritant from the airway. Could cough then be similar to itch? Anatomically, both pathways are mediated by small-diameter sensory fibers. These cough and itch sensory fibers release neuropeptides upon activation, which leads to inflammation of the nerves. Both cough and itch also involve mast cells and their mediators, which are released upon degranulation. This common inflammation and interaction with mast cells are involved in the development of chronic conditions of itch and cough. In this review, we examine the anatomy and molecular mechanisms of itch and compare them to known mechanisms for cough. Highlighting the common aspects of itch and cough could lead to new thoughts and perspectives in both fields.
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- Pamela Colleen Lavinka
- The Solomon H, Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Center for Sensory Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
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The airways and lungs are innervated by both sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves. Cholinergic parasympathetic innervation is well conserved in the airways while the distribution of noncholinergic parasympathetic and adrenergic sympathetic nerves varies considerably amongst species. Autonomic nerve function is regulated primarily through reflexes initiated upon bronchopulmonary vagal afferent nerves. Central regulation of autonomic tone is poorly described but some key elements have been defined.
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- Stuart B Mazzone
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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Anatomy and neuro-pathophysiology of the cough reflex arc. Multidiscip Respir Med 2012; 7:5. [PMID: 22958367 PMCID: PMC3415124 DOI: 10.1186/2049-6958-7-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2012] [Accepted: 06/18/2012] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Coughing is an important defensive reflex that occurs through the stimulation of a complex reflex arc. It accounts for a significant number of consultations both at the level of general practitioner and of respiratory specialists. In this review we first analyze the cough reflex under normal conditions; then we analyze the anatomy and the neuro-pathophysiology of the cough reflex arc. The aim of this review is to provide the anatomic and pathophysiologic elements of evaluation of the complex and multiple etiologies of cough.
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Hoffmann TJ, Simon BJ, Zhang Y, Emala CW. Low voltage vagal nerve stimulation reduces bronchoconstriction in guinea pigs through catecholamine release. Neuromodulation 2012; 15:527-36. [PMID: 22551486 DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1403.2012.00454.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve at relatively high voltages (e.g., >10 V) can induce bronchoconstriction. However, low voltage (≤2 V) vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) can attenuate histamine-invoked bronchoconstriction. Here, we identify the mechanism for this inhibition. METHODS In urethanea-nesthetized guinea pigs, bipolar electrodes were attached to both vagus nerves and changes in pulmonary inflation pressure were recorded in response to i.v. histamine and during VNS. The attenuation of the histamine response by low-voltage VNS was then examined in the presence of pharmacologic inhibitors or nerve ligation. RESULTS Low-voltage VNS attenuated histamine-induced bronchoconstriction (4.4 ± 0.3 vs. 3.2 ± 0.2 cm H(2) O, p < 0.01) and remained effective following administration of a nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester, and after sympathetic nerve depletion with guanethidine, but not after the β-adrenoceptor antagonist propranolol. Nerve ligation caudal to the electrodes did not block the inhibition but cephalic nerve ligation did. Low-voltage VNS increased circulating epinephrine and norepinephrine without but not with cephalic nerve ligation. CONCLUSION These results indicate that low-voltage VNS attenuates histamine-induced bronchoconstriction via activation of afferent nerves, resulting in a systemic increase in catecholamines likely arising from the adrenal medulla.
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- Thomas J Hoffmann
- ElectroCore LLC, Morris Plains, NJ, USA; and Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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The lung, like many other organs, is innervated by a variety of sensory nerves and by nerves of the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems that regulate the function of cells within the respiratory tract. Activation of sensory nerves by both mechanical and chemical stimuli elicits a number of defensive reflexes, including cough, altered breathing pattern, and altered autonomic drive, which are important for normal lung homeostasis. However, diseases that afflict the lung are associated with altered reflexes, resulting in a variety of symptoms, including increased cough, dyspnea, airways obstruction, and bronchial hyperresponsiveness. This review summarizes the current knowledge concerning the physiological role of different sensory nerve subtypes that innervate the lung, the factors which lead to their activation, and pharmacological approaches that have been used to interrogate the function of these nerves. This information may potentially facilitate the identification of novel drug targets for the treatment of respiratory disorders such as cough, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Modulation of sensory nerve function and the cough reflex: understanding disease pathogenesis. Pharmacol Ther 2009; 124:354-75. [PMID: 19818366 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2009.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2009] [Accepted: 09/16/2009] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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To cough is a protective defence mechanism that is vital to remove foreign material and secretions from the airways and which in the normal state serves its function appropriately. Modulation of the cough reflex pathway in disease can lead to inappropriate chronic coughing and an augmented cough response. Chronic cough is a symptom that can present in conjunction with a number of diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, although often the cause of chronic cough may be unknown. As current treatments for cough have proved to exhibit little efficacy and are largely ineffective, there is a need to develop novel, efficacious and safe antitussive therapies. The underlying mechanisms of the cough reflex are complex and involve a network of events, which are not fully understood. It is accepted that the cough reflex is initiated following activation of airway sensory nerves. Therefore, in the hope of identifying novel antitussives, much research has focused on understanding the neural mechanisms of cough provocation. Experimentally this has been undertaken using chemical or mechanical tussive stimuli in conjunction with animal models of cough and clinical cough assessments. This review will discuss the neural mechanisms involved in the cough, changes that occur under pathophysiological conditions and and how current research may lead to novel therapeutic opportunities for the treatment of cough.
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Several airway afferent nerve subtypes have been implicated in coughing. These include bronchopulmonary C-fibers, rapidly adapting airway mechanoreceptors and touch-sensitive tracheal Adelta-fibers (also called cough receptors). Although the last two afferent nerve subtypes are primarily sensitive to mechanical stimuli, all can be acted upon by one or more different chemical stimuli. In this review we catalogue the chemical agents that stimulate and/or modulate the activity of the airway afferent nerves involved in cough, and describe the specific mechanisms involved in these effects. In addition, we describe the mechanisms of action of a number of chemical inhibitors of these afferent nerve subtypes, and attempt to relate this information to the regulation of coughing in health and disease.
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- S B Mazzone
- School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia QLD 4072, Australia.
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Cough sensors. I. Physiological and pharmacological properties of the afferent nerves regulating cough. Handb Exp Pharmacol 2008:23-47. [PMID: 18825334 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79842-2_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The afferent nerves regulating cough have been reasonably well defined. The selective effects of general anesthesia on C-fiber-dependent cough and the opposing effects of C-fiber subtypes in cough have led to some uncertainty about their regulation of this defensive reflex. But a role for C-fibers in cough seems almost certain, given the unique pharmacological properties of these unmyelinated vagal afferent nerves and the ability of many C-fiber-selective stimulants to evoke cough. The role of myelinated laryngeal, tracheal, and bronchial afferent nerve subtypes that can be activated by punctate mechanical stimuli, inhaled particulates, accumulated secretions, and acid has also been demonstrated. These "cough receptors" are distinct from the slowly and rapidly adapting intrapulmonary stretch receptors responding to lung inflation. Indeed, intrapulmonary rapidly and slowly adapting receptors and pulmonary C-fibers may play no role or a nonessential role in cough, or might even actively inhibit cough upon activation. A critical review of the studies of the afferent nerve subtypes most often implicated in cough is provided.
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Chou YL, Scarupa MD, Mori N, Canning BJ. Differential effects of airway afferent nerve subtypes on cough and respiration in anesthetized guinea pigs. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2008; 295:R1572-84. [PMID: 18768768 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90382.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The hypothesis that respiratory reflexes, such as cough, reflect the net and often opposing effects of activation of multiple afferent nerve subpopulations throughout the airways was evaluated. Laryngeal and tracheal mucosal challenge with either citric acid or mechanical probing reliably evoked coughing in anesthetized guinea pigs. No other stimulus reliably evoked coughing in these animals, regardless of route of administration and despite some profound effects on respiration. Selectively activating vagal C-fibers arising from the nodose ganglia with either adenosine or 2-methyl-5-HT evoked only tachypnea. Selectively activating vagal afferents arising from the jugular ganglia induced respiratory slowing and apnea. Nasal afferent nerve activation by capsaicin, citric acid, hypertonic saline, or histamine evoked only respiratory slowing. Histamine, which activates intrapulmonary rapidly adapting receptors but not airway or lung C-fibers or tracheal bronchial cough receptors induced bronchospasm and tachypnea, but no coughing. The results indicate that the reflexes initiated by stimuli thought to be selective for some afferent nerve subtypes will likely depend on the net and potentially opposing effects of multiple afferent nerve subpopulations throughout the airways. The data also provide further evidence that the afferent nerves regulating cough in anesthetized guinea pigs are distinct from either C-fibers or intrapulmonary rapidly adapting receptors.
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- Yang-Ling Chou
- Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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Reynolds SM, Docherty R, Robbins J, Spina D, Page CP. Adenosine induces a cholinergic tracheal reflex contraction in guinea pigs in vivo via an adenosine A1 receptor-dependent mechanism. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2008; 105:187-96. [PMID: 18420718 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01048.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Adenosine induces dyspnea, cough, and airways obstruction in asthma, a phenomenon that also occurs in various sensitized animal models in which a neuronal involvement has been implicated. Although adenosine has been suggested to activate cholinergic nerves, the precise mechanism has not been established. In the present study, the adenosine A(1) receptor agonist N(6)-cyclopentyladenosine (CPA) induced a cholinergic reflex, causing tracheal smooth muscle contraction that was significantly inhibited by the adenosine A(1) receptor antagonist 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine (DPCPX; 100 microg/kg) (P < 0.05) in anesthetized animals. Furthermore, the adenosine A(2) agonist 2-p-(2-carboxyethyl) phenethylamino-5'-N-ethylcarboxamidoadenosine (CGS-21680) induced a small reflex, whereas the A(3) selective agonist N(6)-(3-iodobenzyl)-5'-N-methylcarbamoyladenosine (IB-MECA) was without effect. The tracheal reflex induced by CPA was also inhibited by recurrent nerve ligation or muscarinic receptor blockade (P < 0.001), indicating that a cholinergic neuronal mechanism of action accounted for this response. The cholinergic reflex in response to aerosolized CPA was significantly greater in passively sensitized compared with naive guinea pigs (P < 0.01). Chronic capsaicin treatment, which inhibited sensory nerve function, failed to inhibit CPA-induced reflex tracheal contractions in passively sensitized guinea pigs, although the local anesthetic lidocaine inhibited CPA-induced tracheal contractions. The effects of CPA on the reflex response was not dependent on the release of histamine from tissue mast cells or endogenous prostaglandins as shown by the lack of effect of the histamine H(1) receptor antagonist pyrilamine (1 mg/kg) or the cyclooxygenase inhibitor meclofenamic acid (3 mg/kg), respectively. In conclusion, activation of pulmonary adenosine A(1) receptors can stimulate cholinergic reflexes, and these reflexes are increased in allergic guinea pigs.
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- Sandra M Reynolds
- Pharmaceutical Science Research Division, The Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, School of Biomedical and Health Science, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, UK
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1. Cough is a primary defensive reflex that protects the airways from potentially harmful stimuli. 2. During many respiratory diseases, the cough reflex threshold is lowered and coughing becomes excessive. 3. Currently available therapeutics are mostly ineffective at suppressing excessive coughing. 4. In the present review, we describe the sensory neural pathways involved in cough, how these pathways may become dysfunctional in airway disease and the most recent advances that have been made in identifying future targets for cough suppression.
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- Stuart B Mazzone
- Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Canning BJ. Neurokinin3 receptor regulation of the airways. Vascul Pharmacol 2006; 45:227-34. [PMID: 16945590 DOI: 10.1016/j.vph.2005.08.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2005] [Accepted: 08/01/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Neurokinin(3) (NK(3)) receptors may regulate the airways primarily through actions on the nerves. In the periphery, airway parasympathetic ganglia neurons are depolarized following NK(3) receptor activation resulting subsequently in the facilitation of synaptic transmission. Such an effect may account for the excessive parasympathetic reflex effects (e.g. airway smooth muscle contraction, vascular engorgement, mucus secretion) associated with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In the central nervous system (CNS), NK(3) receptor activation may regulate airway vagal afferent relay neurons, rendering them hyperresponsive to parallel inputs from glutamate containing afferent nerves. This process is analogous to the process of central sensitization regulating hyperalgesia and pain in somatic tissues. In both the CNS and in the airways, NK(3) receptors are likely activated by either substance P and/or neurokinin A (NKA), both of which are full agonists at NK(3) receptors, as there is little evidence that airway nerves express neurokinin B (NKB). Evidence for other potential sites of regulation by NK(3) receptors in the airways (e.g. vasculature, airway smooth muscle, epithelium, mucus glands) is either inconclusive or conflicting.
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- Brendan J Canning
- Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, United States.
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Canning BJ, Mori N, Mazzone SB. Vagal afferent nerves regulating the cough reflex. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2006; 152:223-42. [PMID: 16740418 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2006.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2005] [Revised: 02/06/2006] [Accepted: 03/01/2006] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Coughing is initiated by activation of mechanically and chemically sensitive vagal afferent nerves innervating the airways. All afferent nerve subtypes innervating the airways can modulate the cough reflex. Rapidly adapting and slowly adapting stretch receptors (RARs and SARs, respectively) innervating the intrapulmonary airways and lung may enhance and facilitate coughing. Activation of intrapulmonary C-fibers has been shown to inhibit coughing in anesthetized animals. Extrapulmonary C-fibers and RARs can initiate coughing upon activation. C-fiber-dependent coughing is uniquely sensitive to anesthesia. Tracheal and bronchial C-fibers may also interact with other afferents to enhance coughing. Recent studies in anesthetized guinea pigs have identified a myelinated afferent nerve subtype that can be differentiated from intrapulmonary RARs and SARs and play an essential role in initiating cough. Whether these "cough receptors" are the guinea pig equivalent of the irritant receptors described in the extrapulmonary airways of other species is unclear.
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- Brendan J Canning
- Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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Autonomic nerves in most mammalian species mediate both contractions and relaxations of airway smooth muscle. Cholinergic-parasympathetic nerves mediate contractions, whereas adrenergic-sympathetic and/or noncholinergic parasympathetic nerves mediate relaxations. Sympathetic-adrenergic innervation of human airway smooth muscle is sparse or nonexistent based on histological analyses and plays little or no role in regulating airway caliber. Rather, in humans and in many other species, postganglionic noncholinergic parasympathetic nerves provide the only relaxant innervation of airway smooth muscle. These noncholinergic nerves are anatomically and physiologically distinct from the postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic nerves and differentially regulated by reflexes. Although bronchopulmonary vagal afferent nerves provide the primary afferent input regulating airway autonomic nerve activity, extrapulmonary afferent nerves, both vagal and nonvagal, can also reflexively regulate autonomic tone in airway smooth muscle. Reflexes result in either an enhanced activity in one or more of the autonomic efferent pathways, or a withdrawal of baseline cholinergic tone. These parallel excitatory and inhibitory afferent and efferent pathways add complexity to autonomic control of airway caliber. Dysfunction or dysregulation of these afferent and efferent nerves likely contributes to the pathogenesis of obstructive airways diseases and may account for the pulmonary symptoms associated with extrapulmonary disorders, including gastroesophageal reflux disease, cardiovascular disease, and rhinosinusitis.
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Canning BJ, Farmer DG, Mori N. Mechanistic studies of acid-evoked coughing in anesthetized guinea pigs. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2006; 291:R454-63. [PMID: 16914432 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00862.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Experiments carried out in conscious guinea pigs suggest that citric acid-evoked coughing is partly mediated by transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 (TRPV1) receptor-dependent activation of tachykinin-containing, capsaicin-sensitive C fibers. In vitro electrophysiological analyses indicate, however, that acid also activates capsaicin-sensitive and -insensitive vagal afferent nerves by a TRPV1-independent mechanism, and studies in anesthetized guinea pigs show that coughing evoked by acid is mediated by activation of capsaicin-insensitive vagal afferent nerves. In the present study, we have characterized the mechanisms of citric acid-evoked coughing in anesthetized guinea pigs. Drugs were administered directly to the Krebs buffer perfusing the extrathoracic trachea. Citric acid was applied topically to the tracheal mucosa, directly into the tracheal perfusate in increasing concentrations and at 1-min intervals. Citric acid dose dependently evoked coughing in anesthetized guinea pigs. This was mimicked by hydrochloric acid but not by sodium citrate. The coughing evoked by acid was nearly or completely abolished by TTX or by cutting the recurrent laryngeal nerves. Perfusing the trachea with a low Cl- buffer potentiated the acid-induced cough reflex. In contrast, prior capsaicin desensitization, 10 microM capsazepine, Ca2+-free perfusate, 0.1 microM iberiotoxin, 1 microM atropine, 10 microM isoproterenol, 10 microM albuterol, 3 microM indomethacin, 0.1 microM HOE-140, a combination of neurokinin1 (NK1; CP-99994), NK2 (SR-48968), and NK3 (SB-223412) receptor antagonists (0.1 microM each), a combination of histamine H1 (3 microM pyrilamine) and cysLT1 (1 microM ICI-198615) receptor antagonists, superior laryngeal nerve transection, or epithelium removal did not inhibit citric acid-evoked coughing. These and other data indicate that citric acid-evoked coughing in anesthetized guinea pigs is mediated by direct activation of capsaicin-insensitive vagal afferent nerves, perhaps through sequential activation of acid-sensing ion channels and chloride channels.
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- Brendan J Canning
- The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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Rong Zhou J, Shirasaki T, Soeda F, Takahama K. Potentiation of nicotinic currents by bradykinin in the paratracheal ganglia neurons of rats. Eur J Pharmacol 2006; 531:96-102. [PMID: 16442093 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2005.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2005] [Revised: 11/29/2005] [Accepted: 12/12/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The effects of bradykinin on nicotine-induced responses were investigated in neurons dissociated from rat paratracheal ganglia using the nystatin-perforated patch-clamp recording technique. When bradykinin (10(-9) to 10(-8) M) was pretreated and then simultaneously applied with 10(-5) M nicotine, bradykinin potentiated the nicotine-induced currents. The potentiation was mimicked by [Hyp3]-bradykinin and inhibited by HOE-140, pertussis toxin, neomycin and U-73122, but not U-73433. These results suggest that bradykinin potentiates nicotinic currents via bradykinin B2 receptor, pertussis toxin-sensitive G-protein and phospholipase C. Since bradykinin inhibits the M-current via bradykinin B2 receptor and pertussis toxin-insensitive G-protein [Mochidome, T., Ishibashi, H., Takahama, K., 2001. Bradykinin activates airway parasympathetic ganglion neurons by inhibiting M-currents. Neuroscience 105, 785-791.], it seemed that bradykinin B2 receptor activated two distinct signal transduction pathways in the paratracheal ganglia neurons. This effect of bradykinin might cause enhanced synaptic transmission in paratracheal ganglia neurons and contribute to the aggravation of pathological conditions of the lower airway via enhanced acetylcholine release from the postganglionic nerve terminals.
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- Jian Rong Zhou
- Department of Environmental and Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 5-1 Oe-Honmachi, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan
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OBJECTIVES To describe the anatomy and neurophysiology of the cough reflex. METHODS A review of the literature was carried out using PubMed and the ISI Web of Knowledge from 1951 to 2004. Most of the referenced studies were carried out in animals CONCLUSIONS Studies carried out in animals provide suggestive but inconclusive evidence that C-fibers and rapidly adapting receptors (RARs) arising from the vagus nerves mediate coughing. Recent studies also have suggested that a vagal afferent nerve subtype that is not readily classified as a RAR or a C-fiber may play an important role in regulating cough. Afferent nerves innervating other viscera, as well as somatosensory nerves innervating the chest wall, diaphragm, and abdominal musculature also likely play a less essential but important accessory role in regulating cough. The responsiveness and morphology of the airway vagal afferent nerve subtypes and the extrapulmonary afferent nerves that regulate coughing are described.
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Mazzone SB. An overview of the sensory receptors regulating cough. COUGH 2005; 1:2. [PMID: 16270920 PMCID: PMC1266044 DOI: 10.1186/1745-9974-1-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2005] [Accepted: 08/04/2005] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The cough reflex represents a primary defensive mechanism for airway protection in a variety of mammalian species. However, excessive and inappropriate coughing can emerge as a primary presenting symptom of many airway diseases. Cough disorders are characterized by a reduction in the threshold for reflex initiation and, as a consequence, the occurrence of cough in response to stimuli that are normally innocuous in nature. The current therapeutic strategies for the treatment of cough disorders are only moderately effective. This undoubtedly relates in part to limitations in our understanding of the neural components comprising the cough reflex pathway. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of current concepts relating to the sensory innervation to the mammalian airways, focusing particularly on the sensory receptors that regulate cough. In addition, the review will highlight particular areas and issues relating to cough neurobiology that are creating controversy in the field.
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- Stuart B Mazzone
- Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
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Chuaychoo B, Lee MG, Kollarik M, Undem BJ. Effect of 5-hydroxytryptamine on vagal C-fiber subtypes in guinea pig lungs. Pulm Pharmacol Ther 2005; 18:269-76. [PMID: 15777609 DOI: 10.1016/j.pupt.2004.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2004] [Revised: 12/10/2004] [Accepted: 12/15/2004] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT, serotonin) evokes pulmonary reflexes partially by activating vagal bronchopulmonary C-fibers. In the guinea pig, vagal bronchopulmonary C-fibers arise from cell bodies situated in the nodose and the jugular ganglia. The nodose and the jugular C-fibers differ both pharmacologically and neurochemically, and may subserve different functions. In this study, we compared the effect of 5-HT on the nodose and jugular C-fibers with receptive fields within the guinea pig lungs. The nerve terminals of the vagal bronchopulmonary C-fibers were studied in an ex vivo isolated perfused lung nerve preparation using the extracellular recordings. All nodose C-fibers responded to transient administration of 5-HT (10 microM) and to the selective 5-HT3 receptor agonist, 2-methyl-5-HT (10 microM), with the action potential discharge. The selective 5-HT3 receptor antagonist ondansetron (10 microM) inhibited (by approximately 90%) the activation of the nodose C-fibers evoked by 5-HT (10 microM). In contrast to the nodose C-fibers, the jugular C-fibers were unresponsive or poorly responsive to 5-HT (n=9) and unresponsive to 2-methyl-5-HT (n=11). A direct action of 5-HT on the C-fiber neurons was supported using the whole cell patch clamp recordings from the isolated vagal sensory neurons retrogradely labeled from the lungs. Consistently with the studies on the nerve terminals, 5-HT (10 microM) induced inward current in nodose lung-specific capsaicin-sensitive neurons. Conversely, 5-HT was inefficient to stimulate the lung-specific jugular neurons. We conclude that in the guinea pig lungs, 5-HT selectively stimulates vagal nodose, but not jugular C-fibers via the 5-HT3 receptors in the neuronal membrane.
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- Benjamas Chuaychoo
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Mazzone SB, Mori N, Canning BJ. Synergistic interactions between airway afferent nerve subtypes regulating the cough reflex in guinea-pigs. J Physiol 2005; 569:559-73. [PMID: 16051625 PMCID: PMC1464254 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.093153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Cough initiated from the trachea and larynx in anaesthetized guinea-pigs is mediated by capsaicin-insensitive, mechanically sensitive vagal afferent neurones. Tachykinin-containing, capsaicin-sensitive C-fibres also innervate the airways and have been implicated in the cough reflex. Capsaicin-sensitive nerves act centrally and synergistically to modify reflex bronchospasm initiated by airway mechanoreceptor stimulation. The hypothesis that polymodal mechanoreceptors and capsaicin-sensitive afferent nerves similarly interact centrally to regulate coughing was addressed in this study. Cough was evoked from the tracheal mucosa either electrically (16 Hz, 10 s trains, 1-10 V) or by citric acid (0.001-2 m). Neither capsaicin nor bradykinin evoked a cough when applied to the trachea of anaesthetized guinea-pigs, but they substantially reduced the electrical threshold for initiating the cough reflex. The TRPV1 receptor antagonist capsazepine prevented the increased cough sensitivity induced by capsaicin. These effects of topically applied capsaicin and bradykinin were not due to interactions between afferent nerve subtypes within the tracheal wall or a direct effect on the cough receptors, as they were mimicked by nebulizing 1 mg ml(-1) bradykinin into the lower airways and by microinjecting 0.5 nmol capsaicin into nucleus of the solitary tract (nTS). Citric acid-induced coughing was also potentiated by inhalation of bradykinin. The effects of tracheal capsaicin challenge on cough were mimicked by microinjecting substance P (0.5-5 nmol) into the nTS and prevented by intracerebroventricular administration (20 nmol h(-1)) of the neurokinin receptor antagonists CP99994 or SB223412. Tracheal application of these antagonists was without effect. C-fibre activation may thus sensitize the cough reflex via central mechanisms.
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- Stuart B Mazzone
- The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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Canning B, Mazzone S. Reflexes Initiated by Activation of the Vagal Afferent Nerves Innervating the Airways and Lungs. ADVANCES IN VAGAL AFFERENT NEUROBIOLOGY 2005. [DOI: 10.1201/9780203492314.ch15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Trombetta D, Occhiuto F, Perri D, Puglia C, Santagati NA, De Pasquale A, Saija A, Bonina F. Antiallergic and antihistaminic effect of two extracts of Capparis spinosa L. flowering buds. Phytother Res 2005; 19:29-33. [PMID: 15799005 DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The antiallergic properties of two lyophilized extracts obtained from Capparis spinosa L. flowering buds (capers) by methanol extraction, carried out at room temperature (CAP-C) or with heating at 60 degrees C (CAP-H), were investigated. The protective effects of CAP-H and CAP-C, orally administered (14.28 mg[sol ]kg), were evaluated against Oleaceae antigen challenge-induced and histamine-induced bronchospasm in anaesthetized guinea-pigs. Furthermore, the histamine skin prick test was performed on humans, applying a gel formulation containing 2% CAP-C (the only extract able to protect against histamine-induced bronchospasm) on the skin for 1 h before histamine application and monitoring the erythema by reflectance spectrophotometry. The CAP-H showed a good protective effect against the bronchospasm induced by antigen challenge in sensitized guinea-pigs; conversely, a significant decrease in the responsiveness to histamine was seen only in CAP-C pretreated animals. Finally, the CAP-C gel formulation possessed a marked inhibitory effect (46.07%) against histamine-induced skin erythema. These two caper extracts displayed marked antiallergic effectiveness; however, the protective effect of CAP-H was very likely due to an indirect mechanism (for example, inhibition of mediator release from mast cells or production of arachidonic acid metabolites); conversely, CAP-C is endowed with direct antihistaminic properties. The different mechanisms of action of CAP-H and CAP-C may be related to a difference in the extraction procedure and, thus, in their qualitative[sol ]quantitative chemical profile.
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- Domenico Trombetta
- Department Farmaco-Biologico, School of Pharmacy, University of Messina, Contrada Annunziata, 98168 Messina, Italy.
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Adamko DJ, Odemuyiwa SO, Vethanayagam D, Moqbel R. The rise of the phoenix: the expanding role of the eosinophil in health and disease. Allergy 2005; 60:13-22. [PMID: 15575925 DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2005.00676.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We have entered a new phase in the evolution of our understanding of the role of the eosinophil with a greater appreciation of novel potential functions that may be ascribed to this enigmatic cell type. This review not only provides an update to our current understanding of the various immunobiological roles for the eosinophil, but also attracts attention to some novel observations predicting functions beyond its putative effector role. These observations include the intriguing possibility that the eosinophil may possess the capacity to regulate the immune and inflammatory responses in diseases such as asthma.
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- D J Adamko
- Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Research Group, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Coughing is a highly coordinated reflex that serves to protect the airways from a variety of potentially harmful stimuli. However, in airways disease the cough reflex threshold is lowered and coughing can become exaggerated and inappropriate. Excessive coughing not only affects an individual's quality of life, but may contribute to the pathology of the disease. Understanding the neural components of the cough reflex is essential for establishing new treatments for cough disorders. This review will summarize the current understanding of the afferent neural pathways mediating cough, including how interactions between airway afferent nerve fibre subtypes may modulate the cough reflex pathway and underlie the manifestation of cough disorders.
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- Stuart B Mazzone
- Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia.
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Canning BJ, Mazzone SB, Meeker SN, Mori N, Reynolds SM, Undem BJ. Identification of the tracheal and laryngeal afferent neurones mediating cough in anaesthetized guinea-pigs. J Physiol 2004; 557:543-58. [PMID: 15004208 PMCID: PMC1665106 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.057885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 316] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2003] [Accepted: 03/04/2004] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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We have identified the tracheal and laryngeal afferent nerves regulating cough in anaesthetized guinea-pigs. Cough was evoked by electrical or mechanical stimulation of the tracheal or laryngeal mucosa, or by citric acid applied topically to the trachea or larynx. By contrast, neither capsaicin nor bradykinin challenges to the trachea or larynx evoked cough. Bradykinin and histamine administered intravenously also failed to evoke cough. Electrophysiological studies revealed that the majority of capsaicin-sensitive afferent neurones (both Adelta- and C-fibres) innervating the rostral trachea and larynx have their cell bodies in the jugular ganglia and project to the airways via the superior laryngeal nerves. Capsaicin-insensitive afferent neurones with cell bodies in the nodose ganglia projected to the rostral trachea and larynx via the recurrent laryngeal nerves. Severing the recurrent nerves abolished coughing evoked from the trachea and larynx whereas severing the superior laryngeal nerves was without effect on coughing. The data indicate that the tracheal and laryngeal afferent neurones regulating cough are polymodal Adelta-fibres that arise from the nodose ganglia. These afferent neurones are activated by punctate mechanical stimulation and acid but are unresponsive to capsaicin, bradykinin, smooth muscle contraction, longitudinal or transverse stretching of the airways, or distension. Comparing these physiological properties with those of intrapulmonary mechanoreceptors indicates that the afferent neurones mediating cough are quite distinct from the well-defined rapidly and slowly adapting stretch receptors innervating the airways and lungs. We propose that these airway afferent neurones represent a distinct subtype and that their primary function is regulation of the cough reflex.
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- Brendan J Canning
- Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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Although alteration of airway pH may serve an innate host defense capacity, it also is implicated in the pathophysiology of obstructive airway diseases. Acid-induced asthma appears in association with gastroesophageal reflux after accidental inhalation of acid (fog, pollution, and workplace exposure) and in the presence of altered airway pH homeostasis. Endogenous and exogenous exposures to acids evoke cough, bronchoconstriction, airway hyperreactivity, microvascular leakage, and heightened production of mucous, fluid, and nitric oxide. Abnormal acidity of the airways is reflected in exhaled breath assays. The intimate mechanisms of acid-induced airway obstruction are dependent on activation of capsaicin-sensitive sensory nerves. Protons activate these nerves with the subsequent release of tachykinins (major mediators of this pathway) that, in conjunction with kinins, nitric oxide, oxygen radicals, and proteases, modulate diverse aspects of airway dysfunction and inflammation. The recognition that acid stress might initiate or exacerbate airway obstructive symptomatology has prompted the consideration of new therapies targeting pH homeostasis.
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Rouget C, Cui YY, D'Agostino B, Faisy C, Naline E, Bardou M, Advenier C. Nociceptin inhibits airway microvascular leakage induced by HCl intra-oesophageal instillation. Br J Pharmacol 2004; 141:1077-83. [PMID: 14993101 PMCID: PMC1574276 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0705704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2003] [Revised: 01/13/2004] [Accepted: 01/19/2004] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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1. Gastro-oesophageal acid reflux may cause airway responses such as cough, bronchoconstriction and inflammation in asthmatic patients. Our previous results suggest that microvascular leakage induced, in the guinea-pig airways, by intra-oesophageal hydrochloric acid (HCl) infusion was mainly dependent on the release of tachykinins. Nociceptin, an endogenous ligand of the opioid receptor NOP, has been shown to inhibit bronchoconstriction and cough in guinea-pig or cat by inhibiting tachykinin release. 2. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of nociceptin on the intra-oesophageal HCl-induced airway microvascular leakage evaluated by Evans blue dye extravasation measurement in anaesthetised guinea-pigs pretreated with propranolol, atropine and phosphoramidon. 3. Infusion of intra-oesophageal HCl led to a significant increase in plasma extravasation in the main bronchi and trachea. This increase was abolished when animals underwent a bilateral vagotomy. 4. Airway microvascular leakage was inhibited by nociceptin (3-30 microg x kg(-1) i.v.) in a dose-dependent manner (maximal inhibition at the dose of 30 microg x kg(-1): 19.76+/-1.13 vs 90.92+/-14.00 ng x mg(-1) tissue for nociceptin and HCl infusion, respectively, in the main bronchi, P<0.01). The NOP receptor agonist [Arg(14),Lys(15)]N/OFQ mimicked the inhibitory effect of nociceptin, but at a 10-fold lower dose (3 microg x kg(-1) i.v). The NOP receptor antagonist J-113397 had no effect on plasma protein extravasation by itself, but was able to block the inhibitory effect of nociceptin. 5. Morphine (1 mg x kg(-1)) had a similar inhibitory effect as that of nociceptin. Naloxone pretreatment abolished the effect of morphine, but was enable to block the inhibitory effect of nociceptin. 6. Under similar conditions, nociceptin, in the previous range of concentration, was unable to counteract the airway microvascular leakage induced by substance P (SP). 7. These results suggest that airway plasma extravasation induced by intra-oesophageal HCl instillation might be inhibited by specific stimulation of the NOP receptor with nociceptin. Nociceptin is likely to act at a pre-junctional level, by inhibiting tachykinin release, since it was unable to prevent SP-induced airway plasma extravasation.
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- Céline Rouget
- UPRES EA220 – Pharmacology, University of Versailles and UFR Biomédicale des Saints Pères, 45 rue des Saints Pères, F-75006 Paris, France
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- UPRES EA220 – Pharmacology, University of Versailles and UFR Biomédicale des Saints Pères, 45 rue des Saints Pères, F-75006 Paris, France
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- Department of Experimental Medicine – Section of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, 2nd University of Naples, Via Constantinopoli 16, 80138 Naples, Italy
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- UPRES EA220 – Pharmacology, University of Versailles and UFR Biomédicale des Saints Pères, 45 rue des Saints Pères, F-75006 Paris, France
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- UPRES EA220 – Pharmacology, University of Versailles and UFR Biomédicale des Saints Pères, 45 rue des Saints Pères, F-75006 Paris, France
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- UPRES EA220 – Pharmacology, University of Versailles and UFR Biomédicale des Saints Pères, 45 rue des Saints Pères, F-75006 Paris, France
- Clinical Pharmacology Unit, LPPCE, Faculty of Medicine, 7 bd Jeanne d'Arc, BP 87900, 21079 Dijon Cedex, France
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- UPRES EA220 – Pharmacology, University of Versailles and UFR Biomédicale des Saints Pères, 45 rue des Saints Pères, F-75006 Paris, France
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Mazzone SB, Canning BJ. An in vivo guinea pig preparation for studying the autonomic regulation of airway smooth muscle tone. Auton Neurosci 2003; 99:91-101. [PMID: 12241093 DOI: 10.1016/s1566-0702(02)00053-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The autonomic nervous system plays a primary role in regulating airway smooth muscle tone. Here, we describe the development of an in vivo guinea pig model that permits systematic studies of the autonomic control of airway smooth muscle. The model is based on preparations previously described and utilizes measurements of isometric tension in a perfused segment of extrathoracic guinea pig trachea in situ. It has the advantage that the autonomic innervation to the tracheal segment under study can be physiologically or pharmacologically isolated and studied independently from other mechanisms regulating airway smooth muscle tone. Initial experiments were conducted to optimize model conditions. Subsequent experiments were designed to highlight the usefulness of this preparation for studying parasympathetic regulation of airway caliber. The results of the study demonstrate the utility of this model for future studies into the neural regulation of bronchomotor tone and the mechanisms of airway obstruction and hyperreactivity associated with disease.
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- Stuart B Mazzone
- The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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The cough reflex is initiated through activation of vagal afferent nerves. Rapidly adapting receptors fulfill all criteria for the afferents subserving the cough reflex. Bronchopulmonary C-fibres may also initiate cough when activated. C-fibre-mediated cough may depend upon ongoing or initiated activity in rapidly adapting receptors. The interaction between airways C-fibres and rapidly adapting receptors may occur at sites in the periphery or in the brainstem. C-fibre mediated cough must also overcome a coincident inhibitory effect of C-fibre activation on cough, an inhibitory effect that becomes prominent under general anesthaesia.
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- Brendan J Canning
- Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA.
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Canning BJ, Reynolds SM, Anukwu LU, Kajekar R, Myers AC. Endogenous neurokinins facilitate synaptic transmission in guinea pig airway parasympathetic ganglia. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2002; 283:R320-30. [PMID: 12121843 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00001.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Neurokinin-containing nerve fibers were localized to guinea pig airway parasympathetic ganglia in control tissues but not in tissues pretreated with capsaicin. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether neurokinins, released during axonal reflexes or after antidromic afferent nerve stimulation, modulate ganglionic synaptic neurotransmission. The neurokinin type 3 (NK(3)) receptor antagonists SB-223412 and SR-142801 inhibited vagally mediated cholinergic contractions of bronchi in vitro at stimulation voltages threshold for preganglionic nerve activation but had no effect on vagally mediated contractions evoked at optimal voltage or field stimulation-induced contractions. Intracellular recordings from the ganglia neurons revealed that capsaicin-sensitive nerve stimulation potentiated subsequent preganglionic nerve-evoked fast excitatory postsynaptic potentials. This effect was mimicked by the NK(3) receptor agonist senktide analog and blocked by SB-223412. In situ, senktide analog markedly increased baseline tracheal cholinergic tone, an effect that was reversed by atropine and prevented by vagotomy or SB-223412. Comparable effects of intravenous senktide analog on pulmonary insufflation pressure were observed. These data highlight the important integrative role played by parasympathetic ganglia and indicate that activation of NK(3) receptors in airway ganglia by endogenous neurokinins facilitates synaptic neurotransmission.
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- Brendan J Canning
- The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA.
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Mazzone SB, Canning BJ. Synergistic interactions between airway afferent nerve subtypes mediating reflex bronchospasm in guinea pigs. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2002; 283:R86-98. [PMID: 12069934 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00007.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The hypothesis that airway afferent nerve subtypes act synergistically to initiate reflex bronchospasm in guinea pigs was addressed. Laryngeal mucosal application of capsaicin or bradykinin or the epithelial lipoxygenase metabolite 15(S)-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid evoked slowly developing but pronounced and sustained increases in tracheal cholinergic tone in situ. These reflexes were reversed by atropine and prevented by vagotomy, trimethaphan, or laryngeal denervation. Central nervous system-acting neurokinin receptor antagonists also abolished the reflexes without altering baseline cholinergic tone. Baseline tone was, however, reversed by disrupting pulmonary afferent innervation while preserving the innervation of the trachea and larynx. Surprisingly, selective pulmonary denervation also prevented the laryngeal capsaicin-induced tracheal reflexes, suggesting that laryngeal C-fibers act synergistically with continuously active intrapulmonary mechanoreceptors to initiate reflex bronchospasm. Indeed, reflex bronchospasm evoked by histamine was markedly potentiated by bradykinin, an effect mimicked by intracerebroventricular, but not intravenous, substance P. These data, as well as anatomic evidence for afferent nerve subtype convergence in the commissural nucleus of the solitary tract, suggest that airway nociceptors and mechanoreceptors may act synergistically to regulate airway tone.
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- Stuart B Mazzone
- Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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Mazzone SB, Canning BJ. Evidence for differential reflex regulation of cholinergic and noncholinergic parasympathetic nerves innervating the airways. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002; 165:1076-83. [PMID: 11956048 DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.165.8.2001121270c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The hypothesis that cholinergic and nonadrenergic, noncholinergic parasympathetic nerves innervating the airways are subject to differential reflex regulation was addressed. Pronounced contractile and relaxant parasympathetic reflex responses could be evoked by intravenous histamine, laryngeal mucosal application of capsaicin, inhaled capsaicin, or electrical stimulation of the vagal afferent nerves projecting to the esophagus and abdominal viscera. These data suggest that activation of multiple vagal afferent nerve subtypes can initiate both cholinergic and noncholinergic parasympathetic reflexes in the airways. Conversely, hypoxia or activation of the diving response from the nose evoked only cholinergic contractile reflexes. All contractile and relaxant responses evoked by these stimuli were absent in vagotomized animals or in animals pretreated with the ganglionic blocker trimethaphan, confirming their reflex and parasympathetic nature. The data indicate that cholinergic and noncholinergic parasympathetic nerves regulating airway caliber in guinea pigs are comprised of two distinct parasympathetic pathways that are subject to differential reflex regulation. This previously unrecognized complexity of autonomic regulation of airway caliber has potentially important implications for the mechanisms of airways hyperresponsiveness.
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- Stuart B Mazzone
- The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21224,, USA.
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Kesler BS, Mazzone SB, Canning BJ. Nitric oxide-dependent modulation of smooth-muscle tone by airway parasympathetic nerves. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002; 165:481-8. [PMID: 11850340 DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.165.4.2004005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We addressed the hypothesis that noncholinergic parasympathetic nerves modulate airway smooth-muscle (ASM) tone in guinea pigs. The NO synthase inhibitor L-N(G)-nitro-arginine (L-NNA) and the guanylate cyclase inhibitor 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4,3-a]quinoxalin-1-one (ODQ) potentiated cholinergic contractions and partly inhibited noncholinergic relaxations of the trachealis evoked by nerve stimulation in vitro or in situ. When delivered selectively to the trachea in situ, L-NNA and ODQ also increased baseline cholinergic tone of the trachealis, and L-NNA potentiated histamine-induced contractions of the trachealis in situ. L-Arginine prevented the effects of L-NNA. Vagotomy or selective nerve blockade with tetrodotoxin (TTX) mimicked the effects of L-NNA on histamine responses. The effects of TTX and L-NNA were not additive, however, suggesting that the two agents have common mechanisms of action, and indicating that other nonadrenergic, noncholinergic relaxant neurotransmitters lack influence under baseline conditions. When reflexly activated by bradykinin, noncholinergic parasympathetic nerves partly reversed histamine-induced contractions of the trachealis. L-NNA failed to inhibit this response, however, and did not potentiate the reflex tracheal cholinergic contractions produced by bradykinin. These results show that noncholinergic parasympathetic nerves modulate ASM tone. The NO-dependent component of this response is most effective at baseline levels of nerve activity.
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- Branko S Kesler
- Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
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