Role of ganglionic cotransmission in sympathetic control of the isolated bullfrog aorta

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 498, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 201-214

  Thorne, Richard ^a,b   Horn, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BENEXTRAMINE; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GUANETHIDINE; HEXAMETHONIUM; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PHENTOLAMINE; RINGER SOLUTION; SURAMIN; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; BULLFROG; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYMPATHETIC TRUNK; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0031015880     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1997.sp021851     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. BOWERS, C. W. (1994). Superfluous neurotransmitters. Trends in Neurosciences 17, 315-320.
2. DODD, J. & HORN, J. P. (1983a). A reclassification of B and C neurones in the ninth and tenth paravertebral sympathetic ganglia of the bullfrog. Journal of Physiology 334, 255-269.
3. DODD, J. & HORN, J. P. (1983b). Muscarinic inhibition of sympathetic C neurones in the bullfrog. Journal of Physiology 334, 271-291.
4. DOUGHTY, M. B., CHU, S. S., MILLER, D. W., LI, K. & TESSEL, R. W. (1990). Benextramine: a long-lasting neuropeptide Y receptor antagonist. European Journal of Pharmacology 185, 113-114.
5. 2-purinoceptor antagonist in the mouse vas deferens. British Journal of Pharmacology 93, 243-245.
6. GOH, J. W. & PENNEFATHER, P. S. (1987). Pharmacological and physiological properties of the after-hyperpolarization current of bullfrog ganglion neurones. Journal of Physiology 394, 315-330.
7. HIRST, G. D. S. & EDWARDS, F. R. (1989). Sympathetic neuroeffector transmission in arteries and arterioles. Physiological Reviews 69, 546-604.
8. HÖKFELT, T. (1991). Neuropeptides in perspective: the last ten years. Neuron 7, 867-879.
9. HONMA, S. (1970). Functional differentiation in sB and sC neurons of toad sympathetic ganglia. Japanese Journal of Physiology 20, 281-295.
10. HORN, J. P. (1992). The integrative role of synaptic co-transmission in the bullfrog vasomotor C system: evidence for a synaptic gain hypothesis. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology 70, S19-26.
11. HORN, J. P., FATHERAZI, S. & STOFER, W. D. (1988). Differential projections of B and C sympathetic axons in peripheral nerves of the bullfrog. Journal of Comparative Neurology 278, 570-580.
12. HORN, J. P. & STOFER, W. D. (1987). Identification in isolated preparations of receptors for 3 putative co-transmitters that may be released by vasomotor sympathetic C neurons in the bullfrog. Neuroscience 22, S336.
13. HORN, J. P. & STOFER, W. D. (1988). Spinal origins of preganglionic B and C neurons that innervate paravertebral sympathetic ganglia nine and ten of the bullfrog. Journal of Comparative Neurology 268, 71-83.
14. HORN, J. P., STOFER, W. D. & THORNE, R. (1992). Sympathetic innervation of the bullfrog aorta by 2 co-transmitting synapses in series. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 18, 1531.
15. IVANOFF, A. Y. & SMITH, P. A. (1995). In vivo activity of B-and C-neurones in the paravertebral sympathetic ganglia of the bullfrog. Journal of Physiology 485, 797-815.
16. JAN, L. Y. & JAN, Y. N. (1982). Peptidergic transmission in sympathetic ganglia of the frog. Journal of Physiology 327, 219-246.
17. JOBLING, P. & HORN, J. P. (1996). In vitro relation between preganglionic sympathetic stimulation and activity of cutaneous glands in the bullfrog. Journal of Physiology 494, 287-296.
18. JONES, S. W. (1987). Chicken II luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone inhibits M-current of bullfrog sympathetic neurons. Neuroscience Letters 80, 180-184.
19. LEFF, P., WOOD, B. E. & O'CONNOR, S. E. (1990). Suramin is a slowly-equilibrating but competitive antagonist at P2x-receptors in the rabbit isolated ear artery. British Journal of Pharmacology 101, 645-649.
20. LIBET, B., CHICHIBU, S. & TOSAKA, T. (1968). Slow synaptic responses and excitability in sympathetic ganglia of the bullfrog. Journal of Neurophysiology 31, 383-395.
21. LUNDBERG, J. M. & HÖKFELT, T. (1983). Coexistence of peptides and classical neurotransmitters. Trends in Neurosciences 6, 325-333.
22. MELCHIORRE, C., YONG, M. S., BENFEY, B. G. & BELLEAU, B. (1978). Molecular properties of the adrenergic a receptor. 2. Optimum covalent inhibition by two different prototypes of polyamine disulfides. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 21, 1126-1132.
23. MORRIS, J. L. & GIBBINS, I. L. (1992). Co-transmission and neuromodulation. In Autonomic Neuroeffector Mechanisms, ed. BURNSTOCK, G. & HOYLE, C. H. V., pp. 33-119. Harwood Academic Publishers.
24. NILSSON, H., GOLDSTEIN, M. & NILSSON, O. (1986). Adrenergic innervation and neurogenic response in large and small arteries and veins from the rat. Acta Physiologica Scandinavica 126, 121-133.
25. NISHI, S., SOEDA, H. & KOKETSU, K. (1965). Studies on sympathetic B and C neurons and patterns of preganglionic innervation. Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology 66, 19-32.
26. PENG, Y. Y. & HORN, J. P. (1991). Continuous repetitive stimuli are more effective than bursts for evoking LHRH release in bullfrog sympathetic ganglia. Journal of Neuroscience 11, 85-95.
27. PLOTEK, Y. & ATLAS, D. (1983). Characterization of benextramine as an irreversible α-adrenergic blocker and as a blocker of potassium-activated calcium channels. European Journal of Biochemistry 133, 539-544.
28. SCHULMAN, J. A. & WEIGHT, F. F. (1976). Synaptic transmission: long-lasting potentiation by a postsynaptic mechanism. Science 194, 1437-1439.
29. SHEN, W.-X. & HORN, J. P. (1995). A presynaptic mechanism accounts for the differential block of nicotinic synapses on sympathetic B and C neurons by d-tubocurarine. Journal of Neuroscience 15, 5025-5035.
30. SKOK, V. I. (1965). Conduction in tenth ganglion of the frog sympathetic trunk. Federation Proceedings (translation suppl.) 24, T363-367.
31. SMITH, P. A. (1994). Amphibian sympathetic ganglia: an owner's and operator's manual. Progress in Neurobiology 43, 439-510.
32. SMITH, P. A. & WEIGHT, F. F. (1986). The pathway for the slow inhibitory postsynaptic potential in bullfrog sympathetic ganglia. Journal of Neurophysiology 56, 823-834.
33. STOFER, W. D., FATHERAZI, S. & HORN, J. P. (1990). Neuropeptide Y mimics a non-adrenergic component of sympathetic vasoconstriction in the bullfrog. Journal of the Autonomie Nervous System 31, 141-152.
34. TESSEL, R. E., MILLER, D. W., MISSE, G. A., DONG, X. & DOUGHTY, M. B. (1993). Characterization of vascular postsynaptic neuropeptide Y receptor function and regulation. 1. NPY-induced constriction in isolated rat femoral artery rings is mediated by both Y1 and Y2 receptors: evidence from benextramine protection studies. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 265, 172-177.
35. THORNE, R. & HORN, J. P. (1992). Homosynaptic and heterosynaptic gain modulation at co-transmitting synapses in the bullfrog sympathetic vasomotor C system. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 18, 1531.
36. THORNE, R., SMITH, M. S. & HORN, J. P. (1992). Ganglionic and arterial release of NPY by bullfrog sympathetic neurons. Journal of the Autonomic Neurvous System 38, 231-236.
37. THORNE, R., STOFER, W. D. & HORN, J. P. (1995). An aortic projection of lumbar paravertebral sympathetic neurons in the bullfrog. Journal of the Autonomie Nervous System 56, 38-44.
38. WILSON, J. X., BUTCHEY, J. K. & DESHPANDE, A. A. (1988). Chicken gonadotropin-releasing hormone II increases plasma catecholamines in the bullfrog. Neuroscience Letters 95, 354-358.