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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 57, Issue 5 1410-1424, Copyright © 1987 by APS
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S. M. Barman and G. L. Gebber
We tested the hypothesis that neurons of the lateral tegmental field (LTF) of the cat medulla exert their sympathoexcitatory actions over a pathway that includes rostral ventrolateral medullospinal neurons innervating the spinal intermediolateral nucleus (IML). Thirty-one LTF neurons with sympathetic nerve-related activity [as demonstrated with spike-triggered averaging of inferior cardiac postganglionic sympathetic nerve discharge (SND)] were antidromically activated by microstimulation of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (VLM). The threshold current required to elicit the longest latency antidromic response was increased when the stimulating microelectrode was moved to more dorsal or medial sites in the rostral medulla. This observation suggests that the axons of LTF neurons projected to the rostral VLM. The firing rate of LTF neurons with sympathetic nerve-related activity was decreased during baroreceptor reflex activation. This observation is consistent with the view that these neurons subserved a sympathoexcitatory function. Twenty-five VLM neurons with sympathetic nerve-related activity were synaptically activated by microstimulation of the LTF. The modal onset latency of synaptic excitation (25.6 +/- 2.6 ms) compared favorably with the difference (31 ms on the average) between the firing times of LTF and VLM neurons relative to the peak of the cardiac-related sympathetic nerve slow wave. The firing rate of these VLM neurons decreased during baroreceptor reflex activation. Of nine VLM neurons tested, seven were antidromically activated by microstimulation of the second thoracic (T2) IML. These data are consistent with the view that LTF neurons are a source of the basal discharge of VLM-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons. Sixteen VLM neurons with sympathetic nerve-related activity were antidromically activated by microstimulation of both the LTF and the T2 IML. In some cases, LTF stimulation activated an axonal branch rather than the main axon. This was demonstrated using time-controlled collision of the VLM neuronal action potentials initiated by LTF and T2 IML stimulation. These data raise the possibility that individual VLM neurons influence SND by actions mediated at both spinal and supraspinal levels.
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