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Leal AK, Murphy MN, Iwamoto GA, Mitchell JH, Smith SA. A role for nitric oxide within the nucleus tractus solitarii in the development of muscle mechanoreflex dysfunction in hypertension. Exp Physiol 2012; 97:1292-304. [PMID: 22581746 PMCID: PMC3480555 DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2012.065433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Evidence suggests that the muscle mechanoreflex, a circulatory reflex that raises blood pressure and heart rate (HR) upon activation of mechanically sensitive afferent fibres in skeletal muscle, is overactive in hypertension. However, the mechanisms underlying this abnormal reflex function have yet to be identified. Sensory input from the mechanoreflex is processed within the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) in the medulla oblongata. Within the NTS, the enzymatic activity of nitric oxide synthase produces nitric oxide (NO). This centrally derived NO has been shown to modulate muscle reflex activity and serves as a viable candidate for mediating the mechanoreflex dysfunction that develops in hypertension. We hypothesized that mechanoreflex dysfunction in hypertension is mediated by abnormal alterations in NO production in the NTS. Mechanically sensitive afferent fibres were stimulated by passively stretching hindlimb muscle before and after blocking the endogenous production of NO within the NTS via microdialysis of the NO synthase inhibitor L-NAME (1 and 5 mM) in normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). Changes in HR and mean arterial pressure in response to stretch were significantly larger in SHRs compared with Wistar-Kyoto rats prior to L-NAME dialysis. Attenuating NO production via L-NAME in normotensive rats recapitulated the exaggerated cardiovascular response to stretch observed in SHRs. Dialysing L-NAME in SHRs further accentuated the increases in HR and mean arterial pressure elicited by stretch. These findings support the contention that reductions in NO production within the NTS contribute to the generation of abnormal cardiovascular control by the skeletal muscle mechanoreflex in hypertension.
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- Anna K. Leal
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA 75390-9174
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- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA 75390-9174
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA 75390-9174
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA 75390-9174
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA 75390-9174
- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA 75390-9174
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA 75390-9174
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Varani AP, Moutinho LM, Bettler B, Balerio GN. Acute behavioural responses to nicotine and nicotine withdrawal syndrome are modified in GABA(B1) knockout mice. Neuropharmacology 2012; 63:863-72. [PMID: 22727822 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2012.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2012] [Revised: 05/18/2012] [Accepted: 06/05/2012] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Nicotine is the main active component of tobacco, and has both acute and chronic pharmacological effects that can contribute to its abuse potential in humans. The aim of the present study was to evaluate a possible role of GABA(B) receptors in acute and chronic responses to nicotine administration, by comparing GABA(B1) knockout mice and their wild-type littermates. In wild-type mice, acute nicotine administration (0.5, 1, 3 and 6 mg/kg, sc) dose-dependently decreased locomotor activity, and induced antinociceptive responses in the tail-immersion and hot-plate tests. In GABA(B1) knockout mice, the hypolocomotive effect was observed only with the highest dose of nicotine, and the antinociceptive responses in both tests were significantly reduced in GABA(B1) knockout mice compared to their wild-type littermate. Additionally, nicotine elicited anxiolytic- (0.05 mg/kg) and anxiogenic-like (0.8 mg/kg) responses in the elevated plus-maze test in wild-type mice, while selectively the anxiolytic-like effect was abolished in GABA(B1) knockout mice. We further investigated nicotine withdrawal in mice chronically treated with nicotine (25 mg/kg/day, sc). Mecamylamine (1 mg/kg, sc) precipitated several somatic signs of nicotine withdrawal in wild-type mice. However, signs of nicotine withdrawal were missing in GABA(B1) knockout mice. Finally, there was a decreased immunoreactivity of Fos-positive nuclei in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, basolateral amygdaloid nucleus and hippocampal dentate gyrus in abstinent wild-type but not in GABA(B1) knockout mice. These results reveal an interaction between the GABA(B) system and the neurochemical systems through which nicotine exerts its acute and long-term effects.
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- Andrés P Varani
- Instituto de Investigaciones Farmacológicas-CONICET, Junín 956, 5° Piso, Buenos Aires C1113AAD, Argentina
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Wilcox CM. Tinkering with a tarnished technique: isn't it time to abandon celiac plexus blockade for the treatment of abdominal pain in chronic pancreatitis? Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2012; 10:106-8. [PMID: 22079511 DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2011.10.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2011] [Revised: 10/25/2011] [Accepted: 10/30/2011] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Pelosi GG, Tavares RF, Antunes-Rodrigues J, Corrêa FMA. Cardiovascular responses to noradrenaline microinjection in the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray of unanesthetized rats. J Neurosci Res 2008; 86:712-9. [PMID: 17893924 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The periaqueductal gray area (PAG) is a mesencephalic area involved in cardiovascular modulation. Noradrenaline (NA), a neurotransmitter involved in central blood pressure control, is present in the rat PAG. We report here on the cardiovascular effects caused by NA microinjection into the ventrolateral PAG (vlPAG) of unanesthetized rats and the peripheral mechanism involved in their mediation. NA microinjection in the vlPAG of unanesthetized rats evoked dose-related pressor and bradycardiac responses. No significant cardiovascular responses were observed in urethane-anesthetized rats. The pressor response was potentiated by pretreatment with the ganglion blocker pentolinium (5 or 10 mg/kg, intravenously). Pretreatment with the vasopressin antagonist dTyr(CH2)5 (Me)AVP (50 microg/kg, intravenously) blocked the pressor response evoked by the NA microinjection into the vlPAG. Additionally, circulating vasopressin content was found to be significantly increased after NA microinjection in the vlPAG. The results suggest that activation of noradrenergic synapses within the vlPAG modulates vasopressin release in unanesthetized rats.
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- Gislaine Garcia Pelosi
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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BACKGROUND Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are both potently inhibited by anesthetics and densely expressed in the thalamus. Brain imaging shows that thalamic activity suppression accompanies anesthetic-induced unconsciousness. Therefore, anesthetic-induced unconsciousness may involve direct antagonism of thalamic nicotinic receptors. The authors test this by separately attempting to block or enhance anesthetic-induced loss of righting in rats using intrathalamic microinjections of nicotine or its antagonist. METHODS Rats were implanted with a cannula aimed at the thalamus or control locations. A week later, loss of righting was induced using sevoflurane (1.4 +/- 0.2%). A dose-parameter study (n = 35) first identified an optimal intrathalamic nicotine dose associated with arousal. Subsequently, this dose was used to pinpoint the thalamic site mediating the arousal response (n = 107). Finally, sevoflurane righting dose and response specificity were assessed after blocking nicotinic channels with intrathalamic mecamylamine pretreatment (n = 8) before nicotine challenge. RESULTS Nicotine (150 microg/0.5 microl over 1 min) was the optimal arousal dose, because lower doses (75 microg) were ineffective and higher doses (300 microg) often caused seizures. Nicotine temporarily restored righting and mobility in animals when microinjections involved the central medial thalamus (P < 0.0001, chi-square). Righting occurred despite continued sevoflurane administration. Intrathalamic mecamylamine pretreatment did not lower the sevoflurane dose associated with loss of righting, but prevented the nicotine arousal response. CONCLUSIONS The reversal of unconsciousness found here with intrathalamic microinfusion of nicotine suggests that suppression of the midline thalamic cholinergic arousal system is part of the mechanism by which anesthetics produce unconsciousness.
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- Michael T Alkire
- Department of Anesthesiology, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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Wilkins BW, Hesse C, Charkoudian N, Nicholson WT, Sviggum HP, Moyer TP, Joyner MJ, Eisenach JH. Autonomic cardiovascular control during a novel pharmacologic alternative to ganglionic blockade. Clin Pharmacol Ther 2007; 83:692-701. [PMID: 17687267 DOI: 10.1038/sj.clpt.6100326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to compare ganglionic blockade with trimethaphan (TMP) and an alternative drug strategy using combined muscarinic antagonist (glycopyrrolate, GLY) and alpha-2 agonist (dexmedetomidine, DEX). Protocol 1: incremental phenylephrine was administered during control and combined GLY-DEX, or control and TMP on two control combined GLY and DEX or TMP infusion on two randomized days. Protocol 2: muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and the baroreflex MSNA relationship was determined before and after GLY-DEX. Blood pressure was higher with GLY-DEX (99+/-3 mm Hg) and lower with TMP (78+/-3 mm Hg) relative to control (GLY-DEX: 90+/-2 mm Hg; TMP: 91+/-2 mm Hg; P<0.05). Incremental phenylephrine increased pressure during GLY-DEX (P<0.01 vs control) and TMP (P<0.01 vs control) to a similar degree. Both GLY-DEX and TMP infusion inhibited norepinephrine release (P<0.01 vs control). GLY-DEX inhibited baseline MSNA (P<0.05) and baroreflex changes in MSNA (P<0.01). We conclude that the GLY-DEX alternative drug strategy can be used as a reasonable alternative to pharmacologic ganglionic blockade to examine autonomic cardiovascular control.
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- B W Wilkins
- Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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Cardiac beta-receptor responsiveness is diminished by both aging and hypertension. However, concomitant decreases in the activity of counterregulatory mechanisms, such as the arterial baroreflex and neuronal catecholamine uptake, influence the ultimate cardiac responses to adrenergic agents in vivo. In the present study, we evaluated by echocardiography cardiac responses to intravenous infusion of epinephrine in 14 young and 18 older normotensive men and women and in 10 young and 17 older hypertensive men and women. To assess the relative contribution of intrinsic cardiac and counterregulatory components to the overall response, infusions were repeated combined with a ganglionic blocker in the young groups. Epinephrine-induced increases in heart rate were similar in the four groups. Increases in stroke volume, ejection fraction, and cardiac index were similar in the two hypertensive and two young normotensive groups. In contrast, they were attenuated in the older normotensive group, resulting in higher left ventricular responses in older hypertensive than in normotensive subjects. Heart rate and left ventricular responses to epinephrine in the presence of ganglionic blockade did not differ between the two young groups. Increases in plasma norepinephrine due to epinephrine infusion were larger in hypertensive than in normotensive subjects. One may conclude that compared with young normotensive subjects, in hypertensive subjects mechanisms increasing versus decreasing cardiac responses to epinephrine may remain in balance, and, compared with older normotensive subjects, older hypertensive subjects exhibit enhanced cardiac responses to sympathetic stimulation.
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- Frans H H Leenen
- Hypertension Unit, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, H360, 40 Ruskin St., Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4W7, Canada.
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Liu C, Smith TG, Balanos GM, Brooks J, Crosby A, Herigstad M, Dorrington KL, Robbins PA. Lack of involvement of the autonomic nervous system in early ventilatory and pulmonary vascular acclimatization to hypoxia in humans. J Physiol 2006; 579:215-25. [PMID: 17138611 PMCID: PMC1865001 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.118190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The activity within the autonomic nervous system may be altered following sustained exposure to hypoxia, and it is possible that this increase in activity underlies the early acclimatization of both ventilation and the pulmonary vasculature to hypoxia. To test this hypothesis, seven individuals were infused with the ganglionic blocker trimetaphan before and after an 8 h exposure to hypoxia. The short half-life of trimetaphan should ensure that the initial infusion does not affect acclimatization to the 8 h hypoxia exposure, and the use of a ganglion blocking agent should inhibit activity within all branches of the autonomic nervous system. During the infusions of trimetaphan, measurements of ventilation and echocardiographic assessments of pulmonary vascular tone (DeltaPmax) were made during euoxia and during a short period of isocapnic hypoxia. Subjects were also studied on two control days, when a saline infusion was substituted for trimetaphan. Trimetaphan had no effect on either euoxic ventilation or the sensitivity of ventilation to acute hypoxia. Trimetaphan significantly reduced DeltaPmax in euoxia (P<0.05), but had no significant effect on the sensitivity of DeltaPmax to acute hypoxia once changes in cardiac output had been controlled for. The 8 h period of hypoxia elevated euoxic ventilation (P<0.001) and DeltaPmax (P<0.001) and increased their sensitivities to acute hypoxia (P<0.001 for both), indicating that significant acclimatization had occurred. Trimetaphan had no effect on the acclimatization response of any of these variables. We conclude that altered autonomic activity following 8 h of hypoxia does not underlie the acclimatization observed in ventilation or pulmonary vascular tone.
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- Chun Liu
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK
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Christou DD, Jones PP, Pimentel AE, Seals DR. Increased abdominal-to-peripheral fat distribution contributes to altered autonomic-circulatory control with human aging. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2004; 287:H1530-7. [PMID: 15178547 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00322.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Autonomic nervous system (ANS) control of the circulation is altered with aging in adult humans. Similar changes are observed in obesity, particularly abdominal obesity. To determine whether age-associated differences in ANS-circulatory function can be partially explained by increased body fatness, we examined ANS function and three expressions of adiposity (total body fat, abdominal body fat, and abdominal-to-peripheral body fat distribution; dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) in 43 healthy men: 27 young (25 ± 1 yr) and 16 older (65 ± 1). ANS functions assessed included 1) autonomic support of arterial blood pressure (BP; radial artery catheter), i.e., the reduction in BP during versus before acute ganglionic blockade (GB; intravenous trimethaphan); 2) baroreflex buffering, i.e., the increase in systolic BP with continuous incremental and bolus infusions of phenylephrine during versus before GB; 3) cardiovagal baroreflex sensitivity (Oxford technique); and 4) heart rate variability (time- and frequency-domain analyses). Covarying for abdominal-to-peripheral fat distribution reduced or abolished age-related differences in ANS support of BP, cardiovagal baroreflex sensitivity, and heart rate variability but did not affect age-related differences in baroreflex buffering. Covarying for abdominal and total fat had small selective or no effects on age-associated differences in autonomic-circulatory control. Abdominal-to-peripheral fat distribution explains a significant portion of the variance in a number of autonomic-circulatory functions attributable to aging. Therefore, the development of this fat pattern may contribute to several changes in ANS-cardiovascular function observed with aging. These results may help explain how changes in body fat distribution with advancing age are linked to impairments in circulatory control.
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- Demetra D Christou
- Dept. of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado at Boulder, UCB 354, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
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Durand S, Zhang R, Cui J, Wilson TE, Crandall CG. Evidence of a myogenic response in vasomotor control of forearm and palm cutaneous microcirculations. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2004; 97:535-9. [PMID: 15090486 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01299.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Previous investigations of autoregulatory mechanisms in the control of skin blood flow suffer from the possibility of interfering effects of the autonomic nervous system. To address this question, in 11 subjects cutaneous vascular responses were measured during acute changes in perfusion pressure (using Valsalva maneuver; VM) before and after ganglionic blockade via systemic trimethaphan infusion. Cutaneous vascular conductance at baseline (CVCbase) and during the last 5 s of the VM (CVCVM) were measured from forearm (nonglabrous) and palm (glabrous) skin. During the VM without ganglionic blockade, compared with CVCbase, CVCVM decreased significantly at the palm [0.79 ± 0.17 to 0.55 ± 0.17 arbitrary units (AU)/mmHg; P = 0.002] but was unchanged at the forearm (0.13 ± 0.02 to 0.16 ± 0.02 AU/mmHg; P = 0.50). After ganglionic blockade, VM induced pronounced decreases in perfusion pressure, which resulted in significant increases in CVCVM at both forearm (0.19 ± 0.03 to 0.31 ± 0.07 AU/mmHg; P = 0.008) and palm (1.84 ± 0.29 to 2.76 ± 0.63 AU/mmHg; P = 0.003) sites. These results suggest that, devoid of autonomic control, both glabrous and nonglabrous skin are capable of exhibiting vasomotor autoregulation during pronounced reductions in perfusion pressure.
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- S Durand
- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, 7232 Greenville Ave., Dallas, TX 75231, USA
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Kanaya N, Nakayama Y, Nakayama M, Okazaki K, Hattori JI, Kurosawa S, Edanaga M, Namiki A. Differential pressor response to intravenous ephedrine during recovery from deliberate hypotension. J Clin Anesth 2004; 16:266-70. [PMID: 15261317 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2003.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2003] [Revised: 09/04/2003] [Accepted: 09/04/2003] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine whether nitroglycerin or trimethaphan alters pressor response to intravenous (i.v.) ephedrine. DESIGN Prospective, randomized study. SETTING Operating room of a university hospital. PATIENTS 60 ASA physical status I female patients scheduled for mastectomy. INTERVENTIONS Patients were assigned to one of six groups (n = 10 in each). Group 1: nitroglycerin + normal saline (NS) i.v., Group 2: nitroglycerin + ephedrine 0.1 mg/kg i.v., Group 3: nitroglycerin + ephedrine 0.15 mg/kg i.v., Group 4: trimethaphan + NS i.v., Group 5: trimethaphan + ephedrine 0.1 mg/kg i.v., and Group 6: trimethaphan + ephedrine 0.15 mg/kg i.v. MEASUREMENTS Hemodynamic responses to ephedrine following withdrawal of vasodilators were observed for 15 minutes. MAIN RESULTS Ephedrine increased heart rate and mean blood pressure. After ephedrine 0.1 mg/kg i.v., the maximum pressor response in the trimethaphan group was approximately twofold that of the nitroglycerin group (p = 0.038). CONCLUSIONS Ephedrine restored BP more easily in those patients who had received trimethaphan compared with those who had received nitroglycerin for deliberate hypotension.
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- Noriaki Kanaya
- Department of Anesthesiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
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Gülpinar MA, Ozbeyli D, Arbak S, Yeğen BC. Anti-inflammatory effect of acute stress on experimental colitis is mediated by cholecystokinin-B receptors. Life Sci 2004; 75:77-91. [PMID: 15102523 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2003.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2003] [Accepted: 12/03/2003] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We aimed to investigate the effects of electric shock (ES) on the course of experimental colitis and the involvement of possible central and peripheral mechanisms. In Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 190) colitis was induced by intracolonic administration 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (TNBS). The effects of ES (0.3-0.5 mA) or the central administration of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF; astressin, 10 microg/kg) or cholecystokinin (CCKB; 20 microg/kg) receptor antagonists and peripheral glucocorticoid receptor (RU-486; 10 mg/kg) or ganglion (hexamethonium; 15 mg/kg) blockers on TNBS-induced colitis were studied by the assessment of macroscopic score, histological analysis and tissue myeloperoxidase activity. ES reduced all colonic damage scores (p < 0.05-0.01), while central CRF (p < 0.05-0.001) and CCKB receptor (p < 0.05-0.01) blockers or peripheral hexamethonium (p < 0.05-0.01) and RU-486 (p < 0.05) reversed stress-induced improvement. ES demonstrated an anti-inflammatory effect on colitis, which appears to be mediated by central CRF and CCK receptors with the participation of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and the sympathetic nervous system.
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- Mehmet Ali Gülpinar
- Department of Physiology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Haydarpaşa, 81326 Istanbul, Turkey
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Langley RJ, Kalra R, Mishra NC, Sopori ML. Central but not the peripheral action of cholinergic compounds suppresses the immune system. J Neuroimmunol 2004; 148:140-5. [PMID: 14975594 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2003.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2003] [Revised: 11/05/2003] [Accepted: 11/25/2003] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Cholinergic compounds modulate the immune system; however, the mechanism of cholinergic immunotoxicity is largely unknown. Lewis rats were exposed chronically to cholinergic compounds via subcutaneous or intracerebroventricular routes. Compounds that crossed the blood-brain barrier (BBB) inhibited the antibody response when given by either route, however, poorly permeable compounds, unless given in high doses, inhibited the antibody response only by intracerebroventricular administration. Intracerebroventricular administration of cholinergic agents also reduced serum corticosterone levels, which along with the antibody response was attenuated by pretreatment with the ganglionic blocker chlorisondamine. Thus, cholinergic agents affect the neuroimmune communication and inhibit glucocorticoid production; the latter may be a biomarker for cholinergic toxicity.
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- Raymond J Langley
- Immunology Program, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, 2425 Ridgecrest Dr., S.E., Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA
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OBJECT Cervical spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been found to augment cerebral blood flow (CBF) in a number of animal models, although the mechanisms underlying the cerebrovascular effects of SCS are poorly described. In this study, the authors examined the role of sympathetic tone in CBF alterations induced by SCS in rats. METHODS Spinal cord stimulation was performed at three intervals while CBF was monitored with laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF). Either hexamethonium (5, 10, or 20 mg/kg), prazosin (0.25, 0.5, or 1 mg/kg), idazoxan (0.5, 1, or 2 mg/kg), propranolol (1, 2, or 4 mg/kg), or vehicle was administered intravenously before the second stimulation. Changes in LDF values due to SCS were recorded as the percentage of change from baseline values and were analyzed. In vehicle-treated animals, SCS increased LDF values by 60.5 +/- 1.8% over baseline, whereas both high-dose hexamethonium and prazosin completely abolished the SCS-induced increases in LDF values. On the other hand, LDF values increased by 50.9 +/- 4% and 61.4 +/- 4% after SCS in the presence of idazoxan or propranolol, respectively. Administration of sympathetic nervous system blockers resulted in a variable degree of systemic hypotension as well. Nevertheless, induced hypotension without sympathetic blockade had only a minimal effect on SCS-induced augmentation of LDF values (48 +/- 1.4% over baseline). CONCLUSIONS Sympathetic tone plays a major role in SCS-induced increases in CBF. This effect seems to be mediated primarily by alpha1-adrenergic receptors. Systemic hypotension alone cannot explain the effects of sympathetic blockade on the SCS response. Clinical use of SCS in the treatment of cerebral ischemia should take alpha1-adrenergic receptor sympathetic tone into account.
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- Sachin Patel
- University of Michigan Medical School and Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0338, USA
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Polushin IS, Maĭstrenko NA, Kurygin AA, Pashchenko OV. [Ganglionic blockers in abdominal surgery: facts and hypotheses. 2.Clinical, pathophysiological and pharmacological aspects of ganglionic blocker use]. Vestn Khir Im I I Grek 2003; 161:16-20. [PMID: 12638485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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The authors discuss facts and hypotheses on the effects of benzohexonium upon the motor activity of the intestine and the significance of N-cholinolytics for prophylactics and treatment of postoperative pareses of the gastrointestinal tract. The ganglioblockers possess antistress effect, reduce the degree of pathological vegetative reactions and facilitate realization of the mechanisms of selfregulation of functions of the small and large intestine. Using benzohexonium during operation and in the first days after it makes the intestinal pareses less frequent. N-cholinolytics however do not have a considerable stimulating influence on the contracting activity of the gastrointestinal tract that accounts for their not high effectiveness in treatment of early functional motor evacuatory disorders. The points of action of gangliolytics, those at the level of the intestinal wall included, can not be considered to be completely established, as well as the mechanisms of their indirect effect. The ganglionic blockade should be considered as the basic method of prophylactics of the postoperative paresis of the intestine.
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Kurygin AA, Maĭstrenko NA, Polushin IS, Revin GO. [Ganglionic blockers in abdominal surgery: facts and hypotheses. I. Benzohexonium and motor function of the gastrointestinal system in the early postoperative period]. Vestn Khir Im I I Grek 2003; 161:11-6. [PMID: 12577544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2023]
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The method of registration of the intraluminal pressure was used to study the function of the stomach, small intestine and sigmoid colon under conditions of partial ganglionic blockade in the first days after truncal vagotomy and resection of the stomach. It was found that benzohexonium in doses 0.1-0.3 mg/kg failed to substantially decrease the frequency of early functional motor-evacuation disorders of the "operated" stomach, but the results of using N-cholinolytic was better after truncal vagotomy than after resection of the stomach. Benzohexonium in doses 0.1-0.2 mg/kg failed to considerably stimulate the motor function of the small intestine while the doses of 0.3-0.4 mg/kg resulted in a decrease of its contractile activity. No reliable changes in the qualitative and quantitative parameters of the sigmoid colon motor function were found against the background of ganglionic blockade. So, for prevention and correction of early postoperative motor-evacuation disorders of the gastrointestinal tract the ganglionic blockade with N-cholinolytics should not be taken as a method of choice or a variant of monotherapy.
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- J Savulescu
- Ethics Program, The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia.
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Gorokhovatskiĭ II, Polushin IS, Khubulava GG, Shikhverdiev NN, Karlov VA, Kulikova NA. [Ganglion block in cardiopulmonary bypass surgery]. Anesteziol Reanimatol 2001:11-4. [PMID: 11586620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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Ganglion blockers increase the antinociceptive defense in anesthesiological support of cardiopulmonary bypass operations for mitral and aortic valve failure. Benzohexonium decreased total peripheral vascular resistance, increased cardiac and stroke indexes, and increased systolic potency of the heart. Ganglionar blocking was associated with an increase of systemic oxygen transport, arrhythmias developed rarely, blood concentrations of epinephrine, norepinephrine, ACTH, vasopressin, and leukinferon were lower.
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Smaglik P. Asthma study death spurs inquiry. Nature 2001; 411:873. [PMID: 11418812 DOI: 10.1038/35082200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The presence of an abnormal sympathetic vascular tone is assumed in the hindquarters of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) on the basis that ganglionic blockade decreases hindquarter vascular resistance (HQR) in them but not in normotensive control rats (NCR). Hindquarter blood flow (HQF) was observed with an electromagnetic flow probe implanted around the terminal aorta in SHR and NCR in the conscious state. Mean arterial pressure (AP) was also recorded with an indwelling catheter. HQR was calculated as AP divided by HQF. Intravenous bolus injection of chlorpromazine-HCl at 0.5 mg/kg significantly decreased HQR in SHR but not in NCR. Thereafter, in SHR, ganglionic blockade with hexamethonium bromide did not decrease HQR further. Chlorpromazine given to SHR after ganglionic blockade did not decrease HQR either. These findings indicate that the abnormal hindquarter tone in SHR was inhibited by chlorpromazine. It is suggested that dopaminergic neurons are involved in the hindquarter sympathetic tone generation.
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- J Iriuchijima
- Physiological Laboratory, Hiroshima Prefectural College of Health and Welfare, Mihara, Japan
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Tsuboi M, Furukawa Y, Nakajima K, Kurogouchi F, Chiba S. Inotropic, chronotropic, and dromotropic effects mediated via parasympathetic ganglia in the dog heart. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2000; 279:H1201-7. [PMID: 10993785 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.2000.279.3.h1201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Some parasympathetic ganglionic cells are located in the epicardial fat pad between the medial superior vena cava and the aortic root (SVC-Ao fat pad) of the dog. We investigated whether the ganglionic cells in the SVC-Ao fat pad control the right atrial contractile force, sinus cycle length (SCL), and atrioventricular (AV) conduction in the autonomically decentralized heart of the anesthetized dog. Stimulation of both sides of the cervical vagal complexes (CVS) decreased right atrial contractile force, increased SCL, and prolonged AV interval. Stimulation of the rate-related parasympathetic nerves to the sinoatrial (SA) node (SAPS) increased SCL and decreased atrial contractile force. Stimulation of the AV conduction-related parasympathetic nerves to the AV node prolonged AV interval. Trimethaphan, a ganglionic nicotinic receptor blocker, injected into the SVC-Ao fat pad attenuated the negative inotropic, chronotropic, and dromotropic responses to CVS by 33 approximately 37%. On the other hand, lidocaine, a sodium channel blocker, injected into the SVC-Ao fat pad almost totally inhibited the inotropic and chronotropic responses to CVS and partly inhibited the dromotropic one. Lidocaine or trimethaphan injected into the SAPS locus abolished the inotropic responses to SAPS, but it partly attenuated those to CVS, although these treatments abolished the chronotropic responses to SAPS or CVS. These results suggest that parasympathetic ganglionic cells in the SVC-Ao fat pad, differing from those in SA and AV fat pads, nonselectively control the atrial contractile force, SCL, and AV conduction partially in the dog heart.
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- M Tsuboi
- Department of Pharmacology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan
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Kohm AP, Tang2 Y, Sanders VM, Jones3 SB. Activation of antigen-specific CD4+ Th2 cells and B cells in vivo increases norepinephrine release in the spleen and bone marrow. J Immunol 2000; 165:725-33. [PMID: 10878345 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.2.725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The neurotransmitter norepinephrine (NE) binds to the beta 2-adrenergic receptor (beta 2AR) expressed on various immune cells to influence cell homing, proliferation, and function. Previous reports showed that NE stimulation of the B cell beta 2AR is necessary for the maintenance of an optimal primary and secondary Th2 cell-dependent Ab response in vivo. In the present study we investigated the mechanism by which activation of Ag-specific CD4+ Th2 cells and B cells in vivo by a soluble protein Ag increases NE release in the spleen and bone marrow. Our model system used scid mice that were reconstituted with a clone of keyhole limpet hemocyanin-specific Th2 cells and trinitrophenyl-specific B cells. Following immunization, the rate of NE release in the spleen and bone marrow was determined using [3H]NE turnover analysis. Immunization of reconstituted scid mice with a cognate Ag increased the rate of NE release in the spleen and bone marrow 18-25 h, but not 1-8 h, following immunization. In contrast, immunization of mice with a noncognate Ag had no effect on the rate of NE release at any time. The cognate Ag-induced increase in NE release was partially blocked by ganglionic blockade with chlorisondamine, suggesting a role for both pre- and postganglionic signals in regulating NE release. Thus, activation of Ag-specific Th2 cells and B cells in vivo by a soluble protein Ag increases the rate of NE release and turnover in the spleen and bone marrow 18-25 h after immunization.
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- A P Kohm
- Department of Cell Biology, The Burn and Shock Trauma Institute, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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Goldstein DS, Tack C, Li ST. Sympathetic innervation and function in reflex sympathetic dystrophy. Ann Neurol 2000; 48:49-59. [PMID: 10894215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Patients with reflex sympathetic dystrophy have posttraumatic pain disproportionate to the injury and spreading beyond the distribution of any single peripheral nerve. We examined sympathetic neurocirculatory function and the role of sympathetic postganglionic nerve traffic in maintaining the pain in 30 patients with reflex sympathetic dystrophy. Most had had the condition for more than 1 year, and 14 had undergone sympathectomy for the pain. Positron emission tomographic scanning after administration of 13N-ammonia was used to assess local perfusion, and 6-[18F]fluorodopamine was used to assess sympathetic innervation. Rates of entry of norepinephrine in the regional venous drainage (spillovers) and regional plasma levels of L-dihydroxyphenylalanine (the immediate product of the rate-limiting enzymatic step in norepinephrine biosynthesis) and dihydroxyphenylglycol (the main neuronal metabolite of norepinephrine) were measured with and without intravenous trimethaphan for ganglion blockade. 13N-Ammonia-derived radioactivity was less on the affected side than on the unaffected side, whereas 6-[18F]fluorodopamine-derived radioactivity was symmetrical. Thus, perfusion-adjusted 6-[18F]fluorodopamine-derived radioactivity was higher on the affected side. Norepinephrine spillover and arteriovenous increments in plasma levels of L-dihydroxyphenylalanine and dihydroxyphenylglycol did not differ significantly between affected and unaffected limbs, although 4 patients had noticeably less norepinephrine spillover and smaller arteriovenous increments in plasma dihydroxyphenylglycol on the affected side. Trimethaphan decreased the pain in only 2 of 12 nonsympathectomized patients. The results indicate that patients with chronic unilateral reflex sympathetic dystrophy have decreased perfusion of the affected limb, symmetrical sympathetic innervation and norepinephrine synthesis, variably decreased release and turnover of norepinephrine in the affected limb, and failure of ganglion blockade to improve the pain in most cases. These findings suggest augmented vasoconstriction, intact sympathetic terminal innervation, possibly impaired sympathetic neurotransmission, and pain usually independent of sympathetic neurocirculatory outflows.
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- D S Goldstein
- Clinical Neurocardiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1620, USA
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BACKGROUND Approximately 50% of patients with primary autonomic failure have supine hypertension. We investigated whether this supine hypertension could be driven by residual sympathetic activity. METHODS AND RESULTS In patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA) or pure autonomic failure (PAF), we studied the effect of oral yohimbine on seated systolic blood pressure (SBP), the effect of ganglionic blockade (with trimethaphan) on supine SBP and plasma catecholamine levels, and the effect of alpha(1)-adrenoreceptor blockade (phentolamine) on supine SBP. The SBP response to yohimbine was greater in patients with MSA than in those with PAF (area under the curve, 2248+/-543 versus 467+/-209 mm Hg. min; P=0.022). MSA patients with a higher supine SBP had a greater response than those with a lower supine SBP (3874+/-809 versus 785+/-189 mm Hg. min; P=0. 0017); this relationship was not seen in PAF patients. MSA patients had a marked depressor response to low infusion rates of trimethaphan; the response in PAF patients was more variable. Plasma norepinephrine decreased in both groups, but heart rate did not change in either group. At 1 mg/min, trimethaphan decreased supine SBP by 67+/-8 and 12+/-6 mm Hg in MSA and PAF patients, respectively (P<0.0001). Cardiac index and total peripheral resistance decreased in MSA patients by 33.4+/-5.8% and 40.7+/-9.5%, respectively (P=0. 0015). Patients having a depressor response to trimethaphan also had a depressor response to phentolamine. In MSA patients, the pressor response to yohimbine and the decrease in SBP with 1 mg/min trimethaphan were correlated (r=0.98; P=0.001). CONCLUSIONS Residual sympathetic activity drives supine hypertension in MSA. It contributes to, but does not completely explain, supine hypertension in PAF.
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- J R Shannon
- Autonomic Dysfunction Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-2195, USA
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Sonoyama K, Fujiwara R, Kasai T. Non-effect of hexamethonium, a ganglionic blocker, on the response of ileal apolipoprotein A-IV mRNA following a massive small bowel resection in rats. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2000; 64:1282-4. [PMID: 10923803 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.64.1282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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An intravenous infusion of hexamethonium, a ganglionic blocker, did not affect the increase in the apolipoprotein A-IV mRNA level in the residual ileum following a massive small bowel resection in unrestrained conscious rats. The result suggests that upregulation of the apolipoprotein A-IV gene in the residual ileum is not mediated by a neural pathway, including the nicotinic synapse route.
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- K Sonoyama
- Division of Applied Bioscience, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
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Sonoyama K, Tajima K, Fujiwara R, Kasai T. Intravenous infusion of hexamethonium and atropine but not propranolol diminishes apolipoprotein A-IV gene expression in rat ileum. J Nutr 2000; 130:637-41. [PMID: 10702597 DOI: 10.1093/jn/130.3.637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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To clarify the role of neural factors in the regulation of apolipoprotein (apo) A-IV expression in the small intestine, we investigated the effect of neural blockers on mRNA levels of apo A-IV in rat small intestine. Either ganglionic blocker (hexamethonium), cholinergic blocker (atropine) or beta-adrenergic blocker (propranolol) was infused intravenously to unrestrained conscious rats for 8 h, and then total RNA was isolated from the small intestine and analyzed using Northern hybridization. Apo A-IV mRNA levels in the ileum were significantly lower in hexamethonium- or atropine-infused rats than in saline- (control) or propranolol-infused rats. Immunoblot analysis showed no difference in plasma apo A-IV concentrations between hexamethonium- and saline-infused groups. The lower mRNA levels of apo A-IV in the ileum of hexamethonium-infused rats were observed even in bile-drained rats, indicating that the lower expression was not due to any changes in bile availability. The ileal apo A-IV mRNA levels were significantly higher in rats infused with lipid emulsion into the ileum than in rats infused with glucose-saline, and the concomitant infusion of intravenous hexamethonium did not affect the higher levels of apo A-IV mRNA. These results suggest that the basal expression of the ileal A-IV gene is at least partially regulated in a site-specific manner by cholinergic neurons.
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- K Sonoyama
- Laboratory of Food Biochemistry, Research Group of Food Science, Division of Applied Bioscience, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589 Japan
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Two experiments explored the cardiovascular consequences of extreme cold exposure and their relationship with ultrasound production in infant rats. Experiment 1 addressed the thermoregulatory and cardiovascular concomitants of ultrasound production during cold exposure in rats pretreated with saline or the ganglionic blocker chlorisondamine (5 mg/kg). For both groups, emission of ultrasound was associated with hypothermia and bradycardia. Experiment 2 explored whether the hypothermia experienced by pups in Experiment 1 is associated with increased blood viscosity, which is an important factor affecting venous return to the heart. Blood viscosity increased significantly as temperature decreased from 38 degrees C to 22 degrees C. These experiments suggest that, during extreme cold exposure, decreased cardiac output and increased blood viscosity combine to diminish venous return. The authors have hypothesized that pups respond to decreased return by recruiting the abdominal compression reaction, a physiological maneuver that propels blood back to the heart, resulting in emission of ultrasound as an acoustic by-product.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA.
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BACKGROUND Hormonal systems such as vasopressin (AVP) and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAS) have been reported to become activated during anesthesia and surgery. The purpose of this study was to examine the relative importance of AVP and angiotensin II (AII) in blood pressure control during isoflurane anesthesia in rats. METHODS Rats were given an AVP V1-receptor antagonist (AVP-a, 10 microg kg(-1)), the AII receptor antagonist saralasin (SAR, 20 microg kg(-1) min(-1)) and hexamethonium (HEX, 10 mg kg(-1)) intravenously in random order, awake or anesthetized with isoflurane. RESULTS AVP-a had no effect on mean arterial pressure (MAP) in awake or anesthetized animals, but reduced MAP by 20.0+/-2.2% in the anesthetized rats which previously had been treated with SAR and/or HEX. SAR infusion had no effect on MAP when administered to conscious rats, but decreased MAP by 12.0+/-4.4% during anesthesia. Ganglionic blockade with HEX consistently lowered MAP in the conscious and anesthetized animals. CONCLUSION It is concluded that AVP contributes to the maintenance of blood pressure when the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and/or RAS are blocked during isoflurane anesthesia. SAR infusion leads to hypotension during anesthesia, but not in conscious rats. These findings indicate that AII is of importance for blood pressure maintenance during isoflurane anesthesia in rats, and that apparent pressor effects of AVP come into play when RAS and/or ANS are blocked.
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Sasano H, Hayano J, Tsuda T, Katsuya H. Effects of sympathetic nerve blockades on low-frequency oscillations of human earlobe skin blood flow. J Auton Nerv Syst 1999; 77:60-7. [PMID: 10494751 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1838(99)00029-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Earlobe skin blood flow measured by laser Doppler flowmetry often shows low-frequency oscillations with a frequency around 0.1 Hz. We evaluated the effects of different sympathetic blocking techniques on the oscillations. Power spectrum of 5-min time series of beat-to-beat peak earlobe skin blood flow showed a distinct spectral peak at a frequency around 0.1 Hz (mean +/- SD, 0.107+/-0.016 Hz). The power of the spectral peak measured as coefficient of component variance (CCV) was diminished with total spinal anesthesia (TSA, n = 4) and cervicothoracic epidural anesthesia (CTEA, n = 4; P<0.05 for both). The CCV was unchanged significantly with bilateral thoracic sympathetic ganglionic excision (TSGE, n = 5). Right stellate ganglion block (RSGB, n = 6) caused a trend towards an increase in the CCV on the right (blocked)-side (P = 0.072) but no change on the left (intact)-side. Cross-spectrum analysis revealed that the low-frequency oscillations were not coherent between the right- and left-side earlobes or with low-frequency oscillations in systolic blood pressure either before or after RSGB. TSA and CTEA are known to cause extensive sympathetic nerve blockade in a broad area, while TSGE and RSGB are known to cause local and partial sympathetic blockade. Our results suggest that although the low-frequency oscillations in earlobe skin blood flow may be mediated non-neurally, magnitude of the oscillations may be modified by sympathetic vasomotor tone.
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan.
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The hypothesis that upright posture could modulate forearm blood flow (FBF) early in exercise was tested in six subjects. Both single (2-s duration) and repeated (1-s work/2-s rest cadence for 12 contractions) handgrip contractions (12 kg) were performed in the supine and 70 degrees head-up tilt (HUT) positions. The arm was maintained at heart level to diminish myogenic effects. Baseline brachial artery diameters were assessed at rest in each position. Brachial artery mean blood velocity (MBV; Doppler) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) (Finapres) were measured continuously to calculate FBF and vascular conductance. MAP was not changed with posture. Antecubital venous pressure (Pv) was reduced in HUT (4.55 +/- 1.3 mmHg) compared with supine (11.3 +/- 1.9 mmHg) (P < 0.01). For the repeated contractions, total excess FBF (TEF) was reduced in the HUT position compared with supine (P < 0.02). With the single contractions, peak FBF, peak vascular conductance, and TEF during 30 s after release of the contraction were reduced in the HUT position compared with supine (P < 0.01). Sympathetic blockade augmented the FBF response to a single contraction in HUT (P < 0.05) and tended to increase this response while supine (P = 0.08). However, sympathetic blockade did not attenuate the effect of HUT on peak FBF and TEF after the single contractions. Raising the arm above heart level while supine, to diminish Pv, resulted in FBF dynamics that were similar to those observed during HUT. Alternatively, lowering the arm while in HUT to restore Pv to supine levels restored the peak FBF and vascular conductance responses, but not TEF response, after a single contraction. It was concluded that upright posture diminishes the hyperemic response early in exercise. The data demonstrate that sympathetic constriction restrains the hyperemic response to a single contraction but does not modulate the postural reduction in postcontraction hyperemia. Therefore, the attenuated blood flow response in the HUT posture was largely related to factors associated with diminished venous pressures and not sympathetic vasoconstriction.
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- J K Shoemaker
- Section of Cardiology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA.
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Tono T, Ueki Y, Nagata N, Haruta A, Komune S. Effects of trimetaphan-induced deliberate hypotension on human cochlear blood flow. Acta Otolaryngol Suppl 1999; 539:40-3. [PMID: 10095859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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In order to observe the reaction of cochlear blood flow (CBF) to trimetaphan (TMP)-induced hypotension, CBF was measured with laser-Doppler flowmetry in 7 human subjects during general anaesthesia for middle ear surgery. All subjects showed a decrease in mean arterial pressure (MAP) during intravenous infusion of TMP, followed by a gradual return to the baseline level after termination of the infusion. The CBF generally followed the MAP changes with the same pattern. Three of the seven subjects demonstrated a CBF change larger than the maximum MAP change, indicating the lack of a local autoregulatory mechanism in CBF. On the other hand, CBF changes were smaller in magnitude than the maximum change in MAP for the rest of the subjects, suggesting an autoregulatory mechanism in CBF. However, since the audiograms from these subjects indicated profound damage along the cochlear basal turn probably due to middle ear inflammation, concomitant vascular damage in this region offers another possible explanation for the inappropriate CBF changes. The present observations may also suggest that deliberately TMP-induced hypotension has a potentially harmful effect on CBF during otological surgery that attempts to preserve or improve hearing.
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Miyazaki Medical College, Japan.
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Louletzian O, Welker Y, Le Lostec Z, Mornet P. [Tuberculous osteoarthritis revealed by ankle injury]. Presse Med 1999; 28:531-2. [PMID: 10209542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023] Open
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Mackensen GB, Nellgård B, Miura Y, Chu CT, Dexter F, Pearlstein RD, Warner DS. Sympathetic ganglionic blockade masks beneficial effect of isoflurane on histologic outcome from near-complete forebrain ischemia in the rat. Anesthesiology 1999; 90:873-81. [PMID: 10078690 DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199903000-00031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Isoflurane-anesthetized rats have better outcome from global cerebral ischemia than rats anesthetized with fentanyl and nitrous oxide. The authors wanted to determine whether circulating catecholamine concentrations depend on the anesthetic agent and whether sympathetic ganglionic blockade affects anesthetic-mediated differences in outcome from near-complete forebrain ischemia. METHODS For two different experiments, normothermic Sprague-Dawley rats that had fasted were assigned to one of four groups and subjected to 10 min of 30 mm Hg mean arterial pressure and bilateral carotid occlusion. Rats were anesthetized with 1.4% isoflurane or fentanyl (25 microg x kg(-1) x h(-1)) and 70% nitrous oxide, with or without preischemic trimethaphan (2.5 mg given intravenously). In experiment 1, arterial plasma catecholamine concentrations were measured before, at 2 and 8 min during, and after ischemia (n = 5-8). In experiment 2, animals (n = 15) underwent histologic analysis 5 days after ischemia. RESULTS In experiment 1, intraischemic increases in plasma norepinephrine and epinephrine levels were 28 and 12 times greater in the fentanyl-nitrous oxide group than in the isoflurane group (P<0.01). Trimethaphan blocked all changes in plasma catecholamine concentrations (P<0.02). In experiment 2, isoflurane reduced the mean +/- SD percentage of dead hippocampal CA1 neurons compared with fentanyl-nitrous oxide (43+/-22% vs. 87+/-10%; P<0.001). Trimethaphan abolished the beneficial effects of isoflurane (91+/-6%; P<0.001). Similar observations were made in the cortex. CONCLUSIONS Isoflurane attenuated the peripheral sympathetic response to ischemia and improved histologic outcome compared with fentanyl and nitrous oxide. This outcome benefit was reversed by sympathetic ganglionic blockade. The beneficial effects of isoflurane may result from a neuroprotective influence of an intermediate sympathetic response that is abolished by trimethaphan.
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- G B Mackensen
- Department of Anesthesiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.
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Price DD, Long S, Wilsey B, Rafii A. Analysis of peak magnitude and duration of analgesia produced by local anesthetics injected into sympathetic ganglia of complex regional pain syndrome patients. Clin J Pain 1998; 14:216-26. [PMID: 9758071 DOI: 10.1097/00002508-199809000-00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Pain-relieving effects of lidocaine/bupivicaine local anesthetic (LA) and saline (S) block of sympathetic ganglia (stellate block, 4 patients; lumbar sympathetic block, 3 patients) were compared in 7 complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) patients on a double-blind crossover basis to evaluate the diagnostic and therapeutic value of local anesthetic sympathetic blocks. DESIGN Patients rated their pain on a visual analog scale before and after blocks and were tested for mechanical allodynia one-half hour after blocks. Thereafter, they rated their pain intensity in diaries four times a day for 7 days. Each patient received two blocks, S and LA, and served as his own control. RESULTS Both S and LA injections of sympathetic ganglia produced large reductions in pain intensity in 6 of 7 patients 30 minutes after block. These large reductions were accompanied by the reversal of mechanical allodynia in both S and LA. The mean difference between initial peak reduction in pain intensity produced by saline (68.7%) and active local anesthetic (74.4%) did not approach statistical significance. In striking contrast, the mean duration of pain relief was reliably longer in the case of LA (3 days, 18 hours) as compared with S ( 19.9 hours), a difference that occurred in all 7 patients. In a larger sample of 41 CRPS patients, signs of sympathetic efferent blockade, including Homer' s syndrome or skin surface temperature change, were not predictive of initial peak magnitude of pain relief from sympathetic blockade but were predictive of duration of pain reduction. CONCLUSION The combination of these results provides evidence that duration of pain relief is affected by injection of local anesthetics into sympathetic ganglia. These results indicate that both magnitude and duration of pain reduction should be closely monitored to provide optimal efficacy in procedures that use local anesthetics to treat CRPS.
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- D D Price
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610, USA
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UNLABELLED In this study, we aimed to elucidate the effects of intrinsic nitric oxide (NO) on cardiac neural regulation. Twenty-two cats were anesthetized with 1.5% isoflurane and allocated to Group I (intact; n = 7), Group D (denervated baroreceptors and vagi; n = 8), or Group B (autonomic blockade with i.v. hexamethonium, propranolol, and atropine; n = 7). Cardiac sympathetic nerve activity (CSNA), mean arterial pressure (MAP), sinus heart rate (HR), and A-H and H-V intervals during pacing (150 bpm) were measured before and after i.v. administration of a NO synthase inhibitor, NG-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA, 30 mg/kg) and after reversal with an excessive dose of L-arginine (300 mg/kg), before and during intermittent electrical stimulation of the posterior hypothalamus. L-NNA significantly increased MAP in Groups I and B, but not in Group D. L-NNA significantly decreased HR and lengthened A-H in Group I, but not in other groups. L-arginine further decreased HR and lengthened A-H unexpectedly. The reasons for these findings could not be determined in this study. L-NNA did not change CSNA. Hypothalamic stimulation did not potentiate L-NNA-induced changes in CSNA, hemodynamic variables, and atrioventricular conduction. In conclusion, intrinsic NO may modulate atrioventricular conduction and sinus rate through a vagal cholinergic, rather than a nonautonomic mechanism. IMPLICATIONS Elucidating the roles of intrinsic nitric oxide (NO) on cardiac neural regulation is important. In intact, vagotomized, and baroreceptor-denervated or pharmacologically autonomic blockaded cats, an NO synthesis inhibitor was administered, and atrioventricular conduction and cardiac sympathetic neural discharge were measured. The results suggest a vagal cholinergic mechanism of intrinsic NO.
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- M Yabe
- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
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Centrally given interleukin (IL)-1 is known to induce a rapid rises in blood IL-6. To extend this and to examine the mechanism by which this occurs, the effects of intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of human recombinant IL-1 beta on mRNA expression of IL-6 and tumour necrosis factor (TNF) in the spleen and liver were examined in rats. I.c.v. injection of IL-1 produced a rapid rise of the tissue mRNA levels of Il-6 and TNF in both organs, prior to and/or in parallel with an increase in their serum levels. Pretreatment with chlorisondamine, a ganglionic blocking agent, inhibited the Il-6 responses, while it had little influence on the TNF responses. The results suggest that brain IL-1 induces peripheral production of IL-6, but not of TNF, through autonomic nervous system activation.
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- H Kitamura
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Kuo HC. Inhibitory effect of capsaicin on detrusor contractility: further study in the presence of ganglionic blocker and neurokinin receptor antagonist in the rat urinary bladder. Urol Int 1997; 59:95-101. [PMID: 9392056 DOI: 10.1159/000283035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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In order to understand the mechanisms by which capsaicin at high concentrations affects the micturition reflex and detrusor contractility, in vivo and in vitro whole bladder studies were conducted using ganglionic blockers and a neurokinin receptor antagonist. Thirty-eight adult rats were divided into control (normal saline cystometry) and experimental (1,000 microM capsaicin cystometry) groups. Both groups were subdivided to receive pretreatment with intravesical hexamethonium, perivesical hexamethonium, or intravesical spantide ([D-Arg1, D-Trp7,9, Leu11]-substance P). After in vivo cystometry, the bladders were removed and in vitro whole bladder contractility studies using electrical field stimulation as well as bethanechol and KCl stimulations were performed. In the bladders pretreated with perivesical hexamethonium, the amplitudes of contractions and in vitro detrusor contractility under electrical stimulation were decreased. Other bladder preparations showed no significant differences from the controls. However, when 1,000 microM capsaicin was infused into the bladders, both control and experimental bladders showed an initial excitation and a final inhibition with an elevated basal intravesical pressure and retention. Capsaicin at 100 microM did not have this effect. The results of this study conclude that blockage of perivesical ganglia or neurokinin receptors in the submucosa did not influence the depressant effects of 1,000 microM capsaicin on the micturition reflex and detrusor contractility in rats. Nonspecific toxic effects on detrusor muscle or nerves is likely when intravesical high-concentration capsaicin is administered.
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- H C Kuo
- Department of Urology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan
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Ragozin AV, Semenichenko GG, Kozlov SP, Svetlov VA. [Balanced regional anesthesia based on epidural blockade in extensive abdominal interventions in aged patients]. Anesteziol Reanimatol 1997:55-9. [PMID: 9432895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A high risk of hemodynamic disorders is the main problem associated with regional blocking in elderly patients subjected to abdominal surgery. There are theoretical reasons for ganglionic blocking without hypotonus as a means preventing hemodynamic complications of regional anesthesia in traumatic interventions. Extensive operations on the abdominal organs were performed in 40 patients aged 60 to 82 years. Before surgery the epidural space at the levels from T12 to T7, depending on the level of the intervention, was catheterized. Epidural blocking was combined with drugs for intravenous anesthesia (dipidolor, diazepam, nitrogen oxide). Pentamine in a dose of 1.36 +/- 0.06 mg/kg/h and dopamine in a dose of 3 to 4 micrograms/kg/h were special component of anesthesia. Intubation of the trachea and forced ventilation of the lungs were used; myorelaxants were administered only before intubation. The intra- and postoperative periods were characterized by hemodynamic and metabolic stability and early postoperative rehabilitation. The authors consider that preventive ganglionic blocking without hypotonus attained by a combination of a dosed injection of a ganglion blocker and injection of a highly selective adrenomimetic dopamine in the microcirculation dose ensure the hemodynamic and metabolic stability of balanced anesthesia based on epidural blocking in elderly and senile patients subjected to extensive abdominal interventions. The proposed method of balanced anesthesia is an effective means of neurovegetative inhibition during epidural blocking as the basic component of anesthesia, which permits minimizing the doses of general anesthetics and ensures positive changes in the respiratory system of elderly patients, manifesting by improved pulmonary and bronchial conduction and improvement of blood gas composition.
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Intravenous administration of the antihyperglycemic agent metformin decreases arterial pressure and sympathetic nerve activity (SNA). To test the hypothesis that metformin inhibits SNA by interrupting ganglionic neurotransmission, we compared the actions of intravenous administration of metformin and the ganglionic blocker trimethaphan on postganglionic renal and preganglionic adrenal sympathetic nerves in pentobarbital-anesthetized male Sprague-Dawley rats. Intravenous metformin elicited dose-dependent decreases in postganglionic renal SNA (1 mg/kg: 0 +/- 0%; 10 mg/kg: -20 +/- 4%; 100 mg/kg: -92 +/- 3%; n = 7). Conversely, only the maximal dose of metformin affected preganglionic adrenal SNA (100 mg/kg: delta adrenal SNA = -14 +/- 6%; n = 8). Ganglionic blockade with intravenous trimethaphan (5 mg/kg) produced a differential sympathoinhibitory response similar to the response observed after high-dose metformin (delta renal SNA = -100 +/- 3%; delta adrenal SNA = -17 +/- 7%; P < .001). Preganglionic renal neurons were electrically stimulated in the spinal cord, before and during the peak of the sympathoinhibitory response to intravenous metformin, and the magnitude of the stimulus-evoked increases in postganglionic renal SNA were compared. Metformin dose-dependently attenuated the magnitude of the increase in postganglionic renal SNA elicited by stimulation of the spinal cord (30 mg/kg: -23 +/- 8%; 90 mg/kg: -65 +/- 11%; 270 mg/kg: -91 +/- 8%; n = 6 per dose). We conclude that high-dose intravenous metformin interrupts ganglionic neurotransmission in renal nerves.
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- J S Petersen
- Department of Pharmacology, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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AIMS Whereas the effects of ageing on beta-receptor mediated responses have been extensively studied in vitro and in vivo using the beta-adrenoceptor agonist isoprenaline, little is known regarding ageing induced changes in responses to endogenous catecholamines. In the present study, we assessed age-related changes in cardiac responses to the endogenous beta-adrenoceptor agonist adrenaline and the influence of age-related changes in arterial baroreflex function on these responses. METHODS Adrenaline alone was infused in 14 young subjects, age 30 +/- 2 years (eight males, six females), and 18 older subjects (six males, 12 females), age 60 +/- 2 years, and together with ganglionic blockade (trimetaphan) in seven young and 11 older subjects. Adrenaline was infused at 3-4 incremental rates, each rate for 8 min. Cardiac function was assessed by echocardiography. RESULTS Adrenaline alone, at infusion rates 20-160 ng kg-1 min-1 caused similar increases in heart rate in the two groups. In contrast, adrenaline caused larger increases in stroke volume, ejection fraction, cardiac index and systolic blood pressure and larger decreases in end-systolic wall stress and diastolic blood pressure in the young compared with older subjects. Older females exhibited the smallest increases in stroke volume index and ejection fraction. With concomitant ganglionic blockade, all above cardiovascular responses to adrenaline were similar in the young and older group. Plasma adrenaline increased similarly in the two groups. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that ganglionic blockade does not unmask an age-related decrease in cardiovascular responses to adrenaline (in contrast to isoprenaline). A concomitant ageing induced decrease in neuronal uptake (which applies to adrenaline, but not isoprenaline) may explain such a differential effect.
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- M White
- Hypertension Unit, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada
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Mazumder PK, Gupta AK, Kaushik MP, Kumar D, Dube SN. Cardiovascular effects of an organophosphate toxin isolated from Ptychodiscus brevis. Biomed Environ Sci 1997; 10:85-92. [PMID: 9099430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The dose-dependent hypotensive and bradycardic effects induced by an ichthyotoxic organophosphate compound isolated from the marine dinoflagellate Ptychodiscus brevis were studied. These effects were not antagonized by atropine, but potentiated by alpha-adrenoceptor blocker and hexamethonium. The toxin abolished the vasopressor effect elicited by phenylephrine, indicating an alpha-adrenergic blocking activity. The cardiovascular depressor responses were antagonized by tetraethylammonium while blockade of cholinergic and histaminergic receptors or inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis failed to modify these effects. The results indicate that the cardiovascular depressor effects of the toxin are probably mediated through alpha-adrenergic and ganglionic blockade accompanied by modulation of potassium channel activity.
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- P K Mazumder
- Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior, India
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We recently showed that, in conscious rats, acute infusions of insulin (10-15 fold increase in plasma insulin) produced decreases in hindquarter vascular resistance, but only if, changes in sympathetic outflow were prevented with a ganglionic blocker. The aim of the present investigation was to determine if similar effects of insulin could be observed in a preparation that allowed direct visualization of striated muscle (cremaster) microvessels. Initial studies with topical application of insulin showed that third-order arterioles (A3), but not first- or second-order arterioles vasodilated in response to 800 microU/ml and 8 mU/ml of insulin. Systemic (euglycemic) infusion of insulin (6 mU/ml, but not 2 mU/ml) also increased A3 arteriole diameter in animals treated with a ganglionic blocker, but not in control rats. These data show that insulin can have a direct vasodilator effect on striated muscle microvessels if concomitant increases in sympathetic outflow are absent. However, the response was only present with supraphysiological doses of the hormone.
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- J P Porter
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, KY 40292, USA
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The aim of the present study was to investigate previously suggested adrenergic and tachykinin activity, as well as the cardiovascular effects, of venom from the stonefish (Synanceja trachynis). Stonefish venom (60-120 micrograms/kg, i.v.) produced dose-dependent bronchoconstriction in anaesthetised guinea-pigs. This response (100 micrograms/kg, i.v.) was significantly reduced by the neurokinin 1 (NK1) receptor antagonist CP-99,994 (1 mg/kg, i.v.). Contractile responses to venom (4 micrograms/ml) of guinea-pig isolated ileum (GPI) were significantly inhibited by a combination of the sodium channel blocking drug tetrodotoxin (1 microM) and the ganglion blocking drug mecamylamine (10 microM). However, subsequent administration of CP-99,994 (0.1 microM) did not produce further inhibition. Endogenous tachykinin depletion with capsaicin (1 microM) also significantly attenuated responses to venom (4 micrograms/ml) in GPI. Venom (4 micrograms/ml) produced increases in rate and force of contraction of rat spontaneously beating isolated atria which were significantly inhibited by the beta-adrenoceptor antagonist propranolol (5 microM) but not by noradrenergic transmitter depletion with reserpine (4.5 mg/kg, i.p.). In the presence of the alpha 1-adrenoceptor antagonist prazosin (0.3 microM), venom (6 micrograms/ml) significantly inhibited electrically evoked twitches of prostatic segments of rat vas deferens. The inhibitory effect of venom was significantly reduced by the alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonist idazoxan (1 microM) but not by propranolol (5 microM) or the neurokinin 2 (NK2) receptor antagonist SR-48,968 (0.1 microM). Venom (60-120 micrograms/kg, i.v.) produced dose-dependent increases in mean arterial blood pressure in anaesthetised rats. This pressor response (60 micrograms/kg, i.v.) was significantly reduced by prazosin (10-50 micrograms/kg, i.v.) and the leukotriene receptor antagonist SB205312 (1 mg/kg, i.v.), significantly increased by propranolol (2 mg/kg, i.v.), but not significantly affected by the cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor indomethacin (10 mg/kg, i.v.) or the thromboxane A2/prostaglandin H2 (TP) receptor antagonist GR32191B (1 mg/kg, i.v.). Pressor responses to venom (100 micrograms/kg, i.v.) were also observed in anaesthetised rabbits. These results suggest that stonefish venom contains a component capable of stimulating the release of endogenous tachykinins with subsequent activity at NK1 receptors. The venom also appears to act via stimulation of sodium channels on sensory nerves. The venom also has activity at alpha 2-adrenoceptors and a direct action at beta-adrenoceptors. The effect of venom on blood pressure of anaesthetised rats appears to include a pressor component that is mediated, in part,by alpha-adrenoceptors and leukotriene receptors, and a depressor component that is mediated by beta-adrenoceptors. However, the pressor response does not involve action at TP receptors, or require the production of cyclo-oxygenase metabolites.
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- B J Hopkins
- Department of Pharmacology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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The present study was conducted to develop a standardized ganglionic blockade protocol to assess neurogenic pressor activity in conscious rats. Rats were instrumented with arterial and venous catheters for measurement of arterial pressure and heart rate and for administration of three different ganglionic blockers (trimethaphan, hexamethonium, and chlorisondamine). To investigate the role of the pressor hormones angiotensin II (AII) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) in modulating the cardiovascular responses to ganglionic blockade, we also administered ganglionic blockers to rats pretreated with AVP and AII receptor antagonists. The peak depressor responses to trimethaphan (20 mg/kg; -45 +/- 2 mm Hg), hexamethonium (20 mg/kg; -44 +/- 2 mm Hg), and chlorisondamine (2.5 mg/kg; -47 +/- 3 mm Hg) were not different from each other. With trimethaphan, there was a significantly enhanced peak depressor response after blockade of AT1/V1 receptors (-45 +/- 2 vs -59 +/- 2 mm Hg). No significant differences were observed for hexamethonium or chlorisondamine after hormonal blockade (-44 +/- 2 vs. -46 +/- 3 and -47 +/- 3 vs -48 +/- 4 mm Hg, respectively). These observations suggest that, for hexamethonium and chlorisondamine, the peak depressor response to ganglionic blockade is a consistent measure of neurogenic pressor activity in the conscious rat. This response is not influenced by circulating AII or AVP. On the other hand, trimethaphan should be used carefully due to its complex interactions with other systems, particularly under conditions in which AVP or AII may be altered.
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- D Santajuliana
- Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108, USA
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Dol'nikov NA, Dorofeev NR, Ivanov MA, Baskov VN, Samusenko TM. [The epidural administration of pentamine as a method for stimulating the functions of the small intestine in the early postoperative period]. Anesteziol Reanimatol 1996:24-6. [PMID: 8686935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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A technique of prolonged sympathetic ganglion blockage with an epidurally applied ganglioblocker pentamine has been suggested. With the help of manometry, using an open catheter and electromyography methods, the effect of the above technique on the recovery of the damaged small intestinal functions in the early postoperative period has been studied in comparison with prolonged epidural blockade with trimecaine in patients after gastric surgery. The effect of epidurally administered drugs on central hemodynamics has been studied. The technique suggested is effective for the recovery of the damaged small intestinal functions and has a number of advantages over conventional prolonged epidural blockade: less pronounced effect on central hemodynamics, the absence of blocking effect on afferent pulsation. All these makes it a technique of choice in patients with severe homeostasis disturbances and low central hemodynamic indexes.
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The sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) block is a safe, easy method for the control of acute or chronic pain in any pain management office. It takes only a few moments to implement, and the patient can be safely taught to effectively perform this pain control procedure at home with good expectations and results. Indications for the SPG blocks include pain of musculoskeletal origin, vascular origin and neurogenic origin. It has been used effectively in the management of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) pain, cluster headaches, tic douloureux, dysmenorrhea, trigeminal neuralgia, bronchospasm and chronic hiccup.
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- J N Peterson
- Headache and Pain Center, Hollywood Community Hospital, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA
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Silverman DG, Spencer R, Kitahata LM. Response to Dr. Redick's observations. Reg Anesth 1995; 20:83. [PMID: 7727337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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