Document Detail


Reversible inactivation and excitation of nucleus raphe magnus can modulate tail blood flow of male Wistar rats in response to hypothermia.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  19079538     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
BACKGROUND: The nucleus raphe magnus (NRM) is involved in thermoregulatory processing. There is a correlation between changes in the firing rates of the cells in the NRM and the application of the peripheral thermal stimulus. Introduction: we examined the effect of reversible inactivation and excitation of NRM on mechanisms involved in tail blood flow (TBF) regulation in hypothermia. METHODS: Hypothermia was induced in Male Wistar rats and cannula was implanted above the NRM. To evaluate the effect of nucleus inactivation on TBF, the amount of TBF was measured by Laser Doppler in hypothermic rats, before and after lidocaine microinjection into NRM. TBF was also measured after glutamate microinjection to assess the effect of nucleus excitation in hypothermic rats. RESULTS: Results indicated that after dropping TBF by hypothermia, microinjection of lidocaine into NRM significantly decreased TBF from 54.43 +- 5.7 to 46.81 +- 3.4, whereas glutamate microinjection caused a significant increase from 44.194 +- 0.6 to 98 +- 10.0 CONCLUSION: These data suggest that NRM have thermoregulatory effect in response to hypothermia.
Authors:
Seyed Mansour Malakouti; Masoomeh Kourosh Arami; Abdorahman Sarihi; Sohrab Hajizadeh; Gila Behzadi; Siamak Shahidi; Alireza Komaki; Behnam Heshmatian; Mehrangiz Vahabian
Related Documents :
8026718 - Thermoregulatory effect of intracerebral injections of neuropeptide y in rats at differ...
8564378 - Differential effects of ketaset/rompun anesthesia on hypothermia-induced retrograde amn...
6205228 - Impaired orthograde axonal transport in acute hypoglycaemia, an effect mediated via hyp...
11575548 - Minimum alveolar concentration of volatile anesthetics in rats during postnatal maturat...
993858 - Effect of dietary lactose at levels comparable to human consumption on cholesterol and ...
7529898 - Pituitary-dependent hormonal regulation of galaninergic neurons in the rat hypothalamus.
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Iranian biomedical journal     Volume:  12     ISSN:  1028-852X     ISO Abbreviation:  Iran. Biomed. J.     Publication Date:  2008 Oct 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2008-12-16     Completed Date:  2009-05-08     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9814853     Medline TA:  Iran Biomed J     Country:  Iran    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  237-40     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physiology, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. malako_mnnh@yahoo.com
Export Citation:
APA/MLA Format     Download EndNote     Download BibTex
MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
Hypothermia / physiopathology*
Male
Raphe Nuclei / physiology*
Rats
Rats, Wistar
Tail / blood supply*,  physiopathology*
Thermometers

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine


Previous Document:  Comparative study of the major Iranian cereal cultivars and some selected spices in relation to supp...
Next Document:  The mechanism of preventive effect of captopril on renal ischemia reperfusion injury is independent ...