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JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 84, Issue 5, Pages 2695-2698Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.84.5.2695
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Antidromic activity was recorded in anesthetized rats from single afferent fibers in the proximal ends of cut dorsal root filaments at the L4-6 level and tested for responses to acute cutaneous inflammation produced by intradermal injection of capsaicin. This antidromic activity included low-frequency spontaneous firing and dorsal root reflex (DRR) discharges evoked by applying von Frey hairs to the skin of the foot. DRRs could be recorded from both small myelinated (A delta) and unmyelinated (C) afferent fibers, as well as from large myelinated (A beta) fibers. After capsaicin was injected intradermally into the plantar skin of the foot, a significant enhancement of DRR activity was seen in A delta and C fibers but not in A beta fibers, and this increase lasted for similar to1 h. This study supports the hypothesis that centrally mediated antidromic activity in A delta and C primary afferent fibers contributes to the development of neurogenic inflammation, presumably by release of inflammatory substances in the periphery.
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