Serotonin involvement in descending inhibition of spinal nociceptive transmission produced by stimulation of medial diencephalon and basal forebrain.

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  • E Carstens
  • J D MacKinnon
  • M J Guinan
چکیده

The responses of single lumbar dorsal horn neurons to noxious radiant heat stimuli (50 degrees C, 10 sec) applied to glabrous footpad skin were recorded in cats anesthetized with sodium pentobarbital and 70% N2O. Responses were markedly reduced during electrical stimulation (100-msec trains at 100 Hz, 3/sec, up to 400 microA) at sites in the medial diencephalic periventricular gray (PVG), preoptic area, and basal forebrain. A role for serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) was investigated by determining whether descending inhibition from these areas could be affected by (1) acute systemic administration of the 5-HT antagonist methysergide, or (2) depletion of central 5-HT levels by pretreatment with the 5-HT synthesis inhibitor p-chlorophenylalanine (PCPA; 500 mg/kg, i.p.). Inhibition produced by stimulation at these sites was reduced or abolished in 22 cases following administration of methysergide (0.2 to 1 mg/kg) to non-pretreated cats. In the PCPA-pretreated cats, stimulation in preoptic or basal forebrain areas inhibited the responses of 26 units to noxious skin heating to varying degrees; PVG stimulation inhibited the responses of 14 of 26 units, while the remainder were unaffected. The mean current threshold for inhibition produced by PVG or preoptic/basal forebrain stimulation was significantly higher, while mean inhibition at 200 microA was significantly lower, in units from PCPA-pretreated cats compared to those from non-pretreated cats. The results indicate that 5-HT may be involved in the mediation of spinal inhibition produced by medial diencephalic and basal forebrain stimulation.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

دوره 3 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1983