期刊
BRAIN & DEVELOPMENT
卷 25, 期 5, 页码 338-345出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(03)00008-1
关键词
swallowing; respiration; decrementing expiratory neuron; augmenting respiratory neuron; central pattern generator; medulla oblongata
To elucidate the neuronal basis of the coordination between swallowing and respiration, we examined the swallowing-related activity of respiratory neurons in the ventrolateral respiratory groups of the medulla oblongata of decerebrate, paralyzed and artificially ventilated rats (n = 14). Extracellular recording was made during fictive swallowing evoked by the electrical stimulation of the superior laryngeal nerve from a total of 141 neurons with respiratory rhythm (99 expiratory and 42 inspiratory neurons). The burst of discharge by the hypoglossal nerve was used to monitor the pharyngeal phase of swallowing. The decrementing-expiratory (E-DEC) neurons (n = 62) were activated during (n = 46) or after (n = 10) the hypoglossal bursts, or showed no swallowing-related activity (n = 6). All of the augmenting-expiratory (E-AUG) neurons (n = 37) were silent during the hypoglossal bursts but were activated after each swallow. Inspiratory neurons showed either no swallowing-related bursts (a = 27), or were activated after the hypoglossal burst, (a = 15). Activation of the majority of E-DEC neurons may be related to the arrest of respiration during swallowing, and the post-swallow activation of E-AUG neurons may correspond to the expiratory phase that follows swallowing. We suggest that these behaviors of expiratory neurons are essential in the phase resetting of the respiratory cycle in association with the swallowing. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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