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Article: Electrophysiological properties of neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla of normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats
Title | Electrophysiological properties of neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla of normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats |
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Keywords | Blood pressure Double discharge unit Single discharge unit Spontaneous neuronal activity Spontaneously hypertensive rat Ventrolateral medulla Wistar-Kyoto rat |
Issue Date | 1991 |
Publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/brainres |
Citation | Brain Research, 1991, v. 549 n. 1, p. 118-126 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Single unit activities were recorded from the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVL) of pentobarbital-anesthetized normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Throughout the recording period, arterial blood pressures of WKY (mean arterial pressure, MAP = 103.1 mm Hg) and SHR (MAP = 159.2 mm Hg) remained stable at the respective basal levels. The units recorded in this study were all spontaneously active and cardiac-locked. Two types of discharge patterns, namely single and double discharges, were identified. These single and double discharge units were found to distribute randomly in RVL. In WKY, 92.6% of RVL neurons exhibited single discharges whereas in SHR, the majority (57%) of RVL neurons exhibited double discharges. The mean firing rate of single discharge units in RVL of SHR was significantly higher than that of WKY, whereas the mean firing rate of double discharge units in WKY was similar to that of SHR. About half of the units studied were also tested for antidromic collision; all units tested could be antidromically activated from the intermediolateral column (IML) of the thoracic spinal cord and the lowest threshold sites were consistently localized within IML. In both groups of rats, the axonal conduction velocity of RVL neurons showed a bimodal distribution viz. the fast and slow conducting axons. The mean conduction velocities of each of these two groups of neurons in WKY and SHR were similar. Most of the double discharge units in WKY and SHR belonged to the fast conducting type. In comparison with WKY, the present findings in SHR demonstrated that the majority of RVL units exhibited double discharge pattern with a fast conduction velocity, and the remaining RVL units showed single discharge pattern with a higher firing rate and regularity. These properties of RVL neurons may probably contribute to the enhanced sympathetic outflow from RVL of SHR and in turn account for the higher BP observed in SHR. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/171549 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.832 |
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dc.contributor.author | Chan, RKW | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, YS | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Wong, TM | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-10-30T06:15:37Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-10-30T06:15:37Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1991 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Brain Research, 1991, v. 549 n. 1, p. 118-126 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0006-8993 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/171549 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Single unit activities were recorded from the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVL) of pentobarbital-anesthetized normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Throughout the recording period, arterial blood pressures of WKY (mean arterial pressure, MAP = 103.1 mm Hg) and SHR (MAP = 159.2 mm Hg) remained stable at the respective basal levels. The units recorded in this study were all spontaneously active and cardiac-locked. Two types of discharge patterns, namely single and double discharges, were identified. These single and double discharge units were found to distribute randomly in RVL. In WKY, 92.6% of RVL neurons exhibited single discharges whereas in SHR, the majority (57%) of RVL neurons exhibited double discharges. The mean firing rate of single discharge units in RVL of SHR was significantly higher than that of WKY, whereas the mean firing rate of double discharge units in WKY was similar to that of SHR. About half of the units studied were also tested for antidromic collision; all units tested could be antidromically activated from the intermediolateral column (IML) of the thoracic spinal cord and the lowest threshold sites were consistently localized within IML. In both groups of rats, the axonal conduction velocity of RVL neurons showed a bimodal distribution viz. the fast and slow conducting axons. The mean conduction velocities of each of these two groups of neurons in WKY and SHR were similar. Most of the double discharge units in WKY and SHR belonged to the fast conducting type. In comparison with WKY, the present findings in SHR demonstrated that the majority of RVL units exhibited double discharge pattern with a fast conduction velocity, and the remaining RVL units showed single discharge pattern with a higher firing rate and regularity. These properties of RVL neurons may probably contribute to the enhanced sympathetic outflow from RVL of SHR and in turn account for the higher BP observed in SHR. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/brainres | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Brain Research | en_US |
dc.subject | Blood pressure | - |
dc.subject | Double discharge unit | - |
dc.subject | Single discharge unit | - |
dc.subject | Spontaneous neuronal activity | - |
dc.subject | Spontaneously hypertensive rat | - |
dc.subject | Ventrolateral medulla | - |
dc.subject | Wistar-Kyoto rat | - |
dc.subject.mesh | Animals | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Axons - Physiology | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Blood Pressure | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Electric Stimulation | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Electrophysiology - Methods | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Heart Conduction System - Physiology | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Medulla Oblongata - Physiology - Physiopathology | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Neural Conduction | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Neurons - Physiology | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Rats | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Rats, Inbred Shr | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Rats, Inbred Wky | en_US |
dc.title | Electrophysiological properties of neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla of normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Chan, YS:yschan@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Chan, YS=rp00318 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/0006-8993(91)90607-W | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 1893245 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-0025797392 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 549 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 118 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 126 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:A1991FP94900016 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Chan, RKW=7403110878 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Chan, YS=7403676627 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Wong, TM=7403531434 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0006-8993 | - |