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Excitatory amino acid receptors in the periaqueductal gray mediate the cardiovascular response evoked by activation of dorsomedial hypothalamic neurons.

Abstract：

:Neurons in the region of dorsomedial hypothalamus are involved in the organization of the physiological responses to emotional stress. We have recently shown that the cardiovascular response evoked by activation of dorsomedial hypothalamus neurons is largely dependent on a synaptic relay with the lateral/dorsolateral periaqueductal gray region. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether excitatory amino acid receptors at the lateral/dorsolateral periaqueductal gray region are involved in mediating the response evoked by activation of dorsomedial hypothalamus neurons. In conscious rats, the cardiovascular effects produced by microinjection of GABA(A) receptor antagonist, bicuculline methiodide into the dorsomedial hypothalamus were evaluated before and after injection of different excitatory amino acid antagonists into lateral/dorsolateral periaqueductal gray region. Pretreatment of lateral/dorsolateral periaqueductal gray region with the non-selective ionotropic excitatory amino acid receptor antagonist kynurenic acid or with the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-selective antagonist, MK-801, largely reduced the tachycardic and pressor effects evoked by activation of dorsomedial hypothalamus neurons by bicuculline methiodide microinjection (heart rate 90 and 74%; blood pressure 81 and 84%, respectively). The non-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-selective antagonist 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione, did not alter the cardiovascular response evoked by dorsomedial hypothalamus activation. In an additional series of experiments, microinjection of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor agonist, N-methyl-D-aspartate, into the lateral/dorsolateral periaqueductal gray region, evoked an increase in heart rate and a pressor response that was accompanied by an increase in locomotor activity. These effects were not altered by pretreatment of lateral/dorsolateral periaqueductal gray region neurons with 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione but were completely abolished by MK-801. Altogether, these findings indicate that the cardiovascular response evoked by dorsomedial hypothalamus activation involves a synaptic relay at the lateral/dorsolateral periaqueductal gray region that is mediated at least in large part by excitatory amino acid receptors, possibly N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors.

journal_name

Neuroscience

journal_title

Neuroscience

authors

da Silva LG Jr,Menezes RC,Villela DC,Fontes MA

doi

10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.12.041

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-01-01 00:00:00

pages

1129-39

issue

eissn

0306-4522

issn

1873-7544

pii

S0306-4522(05)01507-1

journal_volume

139

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Excitatory amino acid receptors in the periaqueductal gray mediate the cardiovascular response evoked by activation of dorsomedial hypothalamic neurons.