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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 265, Issue 5 1065-R1075, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society
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A. M. Allen and P. G. Guyenet
Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908.
Bulbospinal barosensitive neurons of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM cells; presumed sympathetic vasomotor premotor neurons) were recorded with iontophoretic electrodes in urethan-anesthetized rats. The majority of these cells were insensitive to intravenous clonidine (Clo; up to 20 micrograms/kg) and insensitive to iontophoretically applied Clo or alpha-methylnorepinephrine (alpha-MNE). These cells (n = 47 of 76) had a spinal conduction velocity of 4.1 +/- 0.2 m/s and a mean firing rate of 20 +/- 1 spikes/s. A second population (n = 29) was powerfully inhibited by intravenous Clo (5-10 micrograms/kg, activity decreased by 83 +/- 11%), iontophoretically applied Clo (decreased by 51 +/- 7%), and iontophoresis of alpha-MNE (decreased by 69 +/- 3%). These cells had a slower conduction velocity (2.0 +/- 0.3 m/s) and a much slower discharge rate (6 +/- 1 spikes/s). Both populations were pulse synchronous at resting arterial pressure. The inhibitory effects produced by iontophoresis of alpha-MNE or Clo were reduced to the same degree (86-98%) by iontophoresis of idazoxan (an alpha 2-adrenergic antagonist with imidazoline structure) and by iontophoresis of piperoxan (65-77%, a nonimidazoline alpha 2-antagonist). The inhibition of RVLM cells by intravenous Clo was reversed by iontophoresis of idazoxan and by intravenous injection of yohimbine (nonimidazoline alpha 2-antagonists). These data suggest that 1) intravenous Clo only inhibits a subpopulation of RVLM sympathetic premotoneurons, possibly the C1 adrenergic cells, 2) this effect of Clo is due to activation of alpha 2-adrenergic receptors rather than nonadrenergic imidazoline binding sites, and 3) these alpha 2-receptors are located on or close to the Clo-sensitive cells and may be continuously activated by endogenously released catecholamines.
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