title: Interaction of vasomotor and exocrine neurons in bullfrog paravertebral sympathetic ganglia.
abstract: A 2 min sample of an intracellular recording of in vivo synaptic activity from a vasomotor C-neuron in a bullfrog sympathetic ganglion was converted to a series of stimulus pulses. This physiologically derived activity was used to stimulate preganglionic C-fibres of similar ganglia studied in vitro. Intracellular recordings were made from exocrine B-cells within the ganglia. Although they do not receive fast, nicotinic synaptic input from preganglionic C-fibres, B-cell excitability was profoundly increased by stimulation of C-fibres with physiologically derived activity. Also, subthreshold depolarizing current pulses that failed to generate action potentials in B-cells under control conditions almost always generated action potentials whilst C-fibres were activated. These effects were attenuated or prevented by the luteinizing hormone releasing hormone antagonist, [D-pyro-Glu1,D-Phe2,D-Trp3,6]-LHRH (70 microM). The physiological release of luteinizing hormone releasing hormone from C-fibres therefore causes an interaction between vasomotor and exocrine outflow within a paravertebral sympathetic ganglion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Ford
authors.forename: A Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Ivanoff
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D000818:Animals; D001285:Atropine / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D005728:Ganglia, Sympathetic / Q000502:physiology*; D007987:Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D009412:Nerve Fibers / Q000502:physiology*; D011892:Rana catesbeiana
chemical_list: D007987:Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone; D001285:Atropine