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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
卷 303, 期 10, 页码 R1011-R1022出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00263.2012
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hypocretin; perifornical area; sympathetic vasomotor activity; phrenic nerve activity
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- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [S1001022]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24500473] Funding Source: KAKEN
Iigaya K, Horiuchi J, McDowall LM, Lam AC, Sediqi Y, Polson JW, Carrive P, Dampney RA. Blockade of orexin receptors with Almorexant reduces cardiorespiratory responses evoked from the hypothalamus but not baro- or chemoreceptor reflex responses. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 303: R1011-R1022, 2012. First published September 26, 2012; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00263.2012.-Orexin neurons form a restricted group in the dorsal hypothalamus. The group is centered on the perifornical area within the classic hypothalamic defense area, an area which when activated produces marked cardiovascular and respiratory effects. Central administration of orexin can produce cardiorespiratory effects, but the extent to which orexin contributes to such responses evoked from the perifornical hypothalamus is not clear. To determine this, we used the dual orexin receptor antagonist Almorexant to challenge the cardiorespiratory effects evoked by disinhibition of the perifornical hypothalamus. Bicuculline (10 and 20 pmol) was microinjected in the perifornical area before and after administration of Almorexant (15 mg/kg iv) or vehicle in urethane-anesthetized rats. Almorexant significantly reduced the pressor, tachycardic, renal sympathoexcitatory, and tachypneic responses to bicuculline (10 pmol, by 55%, 53%, 28%, 77%; 20 pmol, by 54%, 27%, 51%, 72%, respectively). Reductions of similar magnitude were observed with bicuculline microinjections centered on more caudal sites just peripheral to the orexin neuron group, which would likely have activated fewer orexin neurons. In contrast, Almorexant had no effect on the cardiorespiratory response of the chemoreflex (sodium cyanide injection) or the sympathetic component of the baroreflex. Thus orexin makes a major contribution to the cardiorespiratory response evoked from the perifornical area even though orexin neurons represent only a fraction of the output of this area. Orexin neurons may also mediate cardiorespiratory responses from non-orexin neurons in the caudal hypothalamus. However, under resting conditions, blockade of orexin receptors does not affect the chemo- and baroreflexes.
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