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ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology2008

Comparison of baroreceptive to other afferent synaptic transmission to the medial solitary tract nucleus.

Michael C Andresen, James H Peters

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Article in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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35 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Distinct Calcium Sources Support Multiple Modes of Synaptic Release from Cranial Sensory Afferents.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016
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  18. The unsilent majority-TRPV1 drives "spontaneous" transmission of unmyelinated primary afferents within cardiorespiratory NTS.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2012
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael C AndresenDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239-3098, USA. andresen.ohsu@gmail.com
James H Peters
Oregon Health & Science University · US

Funding

Transmission Across the First Synapse of the BaroreflexR01HL041119 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI ANDRESEN, MICHAEL CHRISTIAN · 1991 to 2009
$2.9M
Presynaptic Mechanisms of Neurotransmission in NTSR01HL083115 · NHLBI · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI ANDRESEN, MICHAEL CHRISTIAN · 2006 to 2009
$1.4M
Oxytocin enhances afferent synaptic transmission within the NTS.F32HL088894 · NHLBI · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI PETERS, JAMES HENRY · 2007 to 2009
$137k
NHLBI NIH HHS F32 HL088894NHLBI NIH HHS HL-41119NHLBI NIH HHS HL-56460NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL041119NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL083115
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cranial nerve visceral afferents enter the brain stem to synapse on neurons within the solitary tract nucleus (NTS). The broad heterogeneity of both visceral afferents and NTS neurons makes understanding afferent synaptic transmission particularly challenging. To study a specific subgroup of second-order neurons in medial NTS, we anterogradely labeled arterial baroreceptor afferents of the aortic depressor nerve (ADN) with lipophilic fluorescent tracer (i.e., ADN+) and measured synaptic responses to solitary tract (ST) activation recorded from dye-identified neurons in medial NTS in horizontal brain stem slices. Every ADN+ NTS neuron received constant-latency ST-evoked excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) (jitter < 192 micros, SD of latency). Stimulus-recruitment profiles showed single thresholds and no suprathreshold recruitment, findings consistent with EPSCs arising from a single, branched afferent axon. Frequency-dependent depression of ADN+ EPSCs averaged approximately 70% for five shocks at 50 Hz, but single-shock failure rates did not exceed 4%. Whether adjacent ADN- or those from unlabeled animals, other second-order NTS neurons (jitters < 200 micros) had ST transmission properties indistinguishable from ADN+. Capsaicin (CAP; 100 nM) blocked ST transmission in some neurons. CAP-sensitive ST-EPSCs were smaller and failed over five times more frequently than CAP-resistant responses, whether ADN+ or from unlabeled animals. Variance-mean analysis of ST-EPSCs suggested uniformly high probabilities for quantal glutamate release across second-order neurons. While amplitude differences may reflect different numbers of contacts, higher frequency-dependent failure rates in CAP-sensitive ST-EPSCs may arise from subtype-specific differences in afferent axon properties. Thus afferent transmission within medial NTS differed by axon class (e.g., CAP sensitive) but was indistinguishable by source of axon (e.g., baroreceptor vs. nonbaroreceptor).

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Synaptic TransmissionAfferent PathwaysAnimalsAortaAxonsCapsaicinCranial NervesElectric StimulationEvoked PotentialsExcitatory Postsynaptic PotentialsGlutamic AcidIn Vitro TechniquesMaleNerve Fibers, MyelinatedNerve Fibers, UnmyelinatedPressoreceptorsCapsaicinGlutamic Acid

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PMID18790834
PMCPMC2614577
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