title: Baroreceptor inhibition of subretrofacial neurons: evidence from intracellular recordings in the cat.
abstract: Neurons of the subretrofacial nucleus in the rostral ventrolateral medulla have been studied by in vivo intracellular recording in the chloralose-anaesthetized cat. Impalements of sufficient quality to demonstrate inhibition by carotid baroreceptor stimulation (blind sac inflation) were obtained for 9 cells. In 8 of these, a clear hyperpolarization followed approximately 100-200 ms after the baroreceptor stimulus, reaching a maximum of 2-9 mV, 200-500 ms later. These findings confirm by more direct methods the inhibition of subretrofacial neurons by arterial baroreceptors.
authors.affiliation: Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dembowsky
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: McAllen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008526:Medulla Oblongata / Q000502:physiology*; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D009433:Neural Inhibition; D011311:Pressoreceptors / Q000502:physiology*