| Barbiturate alteration of respiratory rhythm and drive in isolated brainstem-spinal cord of newborn rat: studies at normal and hyperbaric pressure. | |
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PMID: 1997065 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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High pressure and anaesthetic agents are mutual antagonists in intact animals, but antagonism is not observed in isolated nerve cells. In order to test the hypothesis that a neural network might display pressure-anaesthetic antagonism not found in simpler systems, we have examined the effects of pentobarbitone at normal pressure and at 10.1 MPa helium pressure on the rhythmic activity of medullary respiratory centres of isolated brainstem and spinal cord from 0-3 day old rats. Pentobarbitone 5-80 mumol litre-1 depressed the frequency, amplitude and area of spontaneous bursts recorded from C5, reduced respiratory drive, and altered the response to trigeminal nerve root stimulation. Compression to 10.1 MPa decreased ventilatory frequency and respiratory drive, and either did not interact with or enhanced the depressant effects of pentobarbitone. Pentobarbitone and helium pressure altered the response to trigeminal nerve root stimulation in the same manner. The results are consistent with additive rather than antagonistic effects of pressure and a barbiturate on the determinants of output from the respiratory centre-motor neurone pathway. Pressure-anaesthetic antagonism may be a property unique to the neural circuitry which underlies awake behaviour and pressure-induced seizures, rather than reflecting a fundamental molecular-level antagonism. |
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Authors:
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A Tarasiuk; Y Grossman; J J Kendig |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: In Vitro; Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: British journal of anaesthesia Volume: 66 ISSN: 0007-0912 ISO Abbreviation: Br J Anaesth Publication Date: 1991 Jan |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1991-04-02 Completed Date: 1991-04-02 Revised Date: 2007-11-14 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0372541 Medline TA: Br J Anaesth Country: ENGLAND |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 88-96 Citation Subset: IM |
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Unit of Physiology, Faculty for Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. |
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Action Potentials
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drug effects Animals Animals, Newborn / physiology Atmospheric Pressure Brain Stem / drug effects* Depression, Chemical Motor Neurons / physiology Phenobarbital / pharmacology* Rats Respiratory Center / drug effects Spinal Cord / drug effects* Time Factors Trigeminal Nerve / physiology |
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ID/Acronym/Agency:
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NS13108/NS/NINDS NIH HHS |
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Reg. No./Substance:
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50-06-6/Phenobarbital |
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