1987 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Neuro-humoral mechanisms of relexive respiratory suppression mediated by endogenous opiated system.
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60440027
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Neurophysiology and muscle physiology
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| Research Institution | Res. Inst. of Environ. Med. Nagoya Univ. |
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Principal Investigator |
KUMAZAWA Takao Res. Inst. of Environ. Med. Nagoya Univ. Professor, 環境医学研究所, 教授 (20022775)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
EGICHI Knihiro Sch. of Dent. Aichigakuin Univ. Assistant Professor, 歯学部, 助手 (30113062)
KITO Junzo Sch. of Med. Nagoya Univ. Associate Professor, 医学部, 助教授 (60022802)
KOZAKI Yasuko Res. Inst. of Environ. Med. Nagoya Univ. Research Associate, 環境医学研究所, 教務職員 (20126882)
MIZUMURA Kazue Res. Inst. of Environ. Med. Nagoya Univ. Associate Professor, 環境医学研究所, 助教授 (00109349)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1985 – 1987
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| Keywords | Thin-fiber muscular afferent / Polymodal receptor / Respiratory suppression Proglumide / Enkephalin / ELISA / Opioid / 結合腕傍核 / オピオイド |
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| Research Abstract |
Our previous works have revealed naloxone-reversible respiratory suppression induced by stimulation of thin-fiber muscular afferents: polymodal receptor inputs. The present work is aimed to elucidate the following questions provided by those previous works. 1)Whether N. parabrachialis (PBN) is implicated in the respiratory inhibition, since previous decerebration experiment suggested the importance of the rostral pons. 2)What kinds of modulation factors are involved, since repeated stimulation reduced the magnitude of the respiratory inhibition. 3) What opioid peptide(s) may be really concerned. In addition the receptor characteristics of polymodal receptors are investigated in detail.
Results. 1)Both repetitive electrical stimulation of PBN and microinjection of morphine into PBN produced naloxone-reversible, long lasting respiratory supression, which is similar to that induced by peripheral muscular afferent stimulation. 2)Respiratory suppression produced by morphine did not reduce by its repetitive application, suggesting that opioid tolerance is not the cause of the tachyphylaxis of the reflex res[piratory suppression. Since the tachyphylaxis was antagonized by proglumide, an antagonist of cholecystokinin (CCK), it may be caused by a temporal summation of activities in facilitatory systems such as CCK, which would be simultaneously stimulated by muscular afferents. Effectiveness of the stimulation was shown to be respiratoy-phase dependent; influence of vagal inputs was also suggested. 3)Perfusion through the 4th ventricle-cisterna magna with solution containing enkephalinase inhibitors caused significantly larger reflex respiratory suppression. Concentration of enkephalin determined by ELISA was higher in the elute during and after stimulation than before.
The present result reveals an enkephalinergic respiratory regulation mechanism triggered by peripheral polymodal receptor inputs.
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