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Midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) inhibits nociceptive inputs to sacral dorsal horn nociceptive neurons through alpha2-adrenergic receptors.

Abstract：

:Modulation of sacral spinal dorsal horn neurons by the ventrolateral PAG was studied by extracellular recording combined with microiontophoretic applications of alpha-adrenergic agonists or antagonists. Bicuculline (BIC, 15 ng) microinjected into the ventrolateral PAG produced a consistent inhibition of the responses of nociceptive dorsal horn neurons. After PAG-BIC applications, the total number of spikes per heat stimulation period was significantly decreased to a mean of 37 +/- 19% (n = 8) of the pre-BIC control. Local iontophoresis of the selective alpha2-adrenoceptor antagonists idazoxan or yohimbine but not the selective alpha1 antagonist benoxathian significantly reversed PAG-BIC-evoked inhibition. At low ejection currents, clonidine, an alpha2-adrenoceptor agonist, markedly reduced noxious heat-evoked responses but had no consistent action on the responses to iontophoresed excitatory amino acids [EAA; N-methyl--aspartate (NMDA) or kainic acid]. At ejection currents higher than required to block descending inhibition, idazoxan potentiated responses to both heat and EAA iontophoresis. At higher ejection currents, EAA responses were inhibited by clonidine. This indicates that both presynaptic and postsynaptic alpha2 receptors are capable of inhibiting the recorded neurons. Activation of the alpha1 adrenoceptors by iontophoresis of methoxamine often led to a marked increase in the responses to kainic acid and, to a lesser extent, to NMDA iontophoresis or noxious heat. Together with previously reported work, the current experiments demonstrate that PAG neurons inhibit nociceptive dorsal horn neurons primarily through an indirect alpha2 adrenoceptor mechanism. In this same population of dorsal horn neurons, norepinephrine has a direct alpha1-mediated excitatory effect.

journal_name

J Neurophysiol

journal_title

Journal of neurophysiology

authors

Budai D,Harasawa I,Fields HL

doi

10.1152/jn.1998.80.5.2244

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-11-01 00:00:00

pages

2244-54

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eissn

0022-3077

issn

1522-1598

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Midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) inhibits nociceptive inputs to sacral dorsal horn nociceptive neurons through alpha2-adrenergic receptors.