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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 69, Issue 6 1981-1986, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Central action of tachykinins on activity of expiratory pumping muscles

M. A. Haxhiu, N. S. Cherniack and E. van Lunteren
Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106.

The central effects of tachykinins (substance P, neurokinin A, and neurokinin B) on the distribution of the motor activity to rib cage and abdominal expiratory muscles were studied in anesthetized tracheotomized spontaneously breathing dogs and cats. Intracisternal application of substance P (11 dogs) in doses of 10(-5) to 10(-4) M caused diaphragm electrical activity to change insignificantly from 19.3 +/- 1.9 to 24.8 +/- 3.2 units (P greater than 0.05), produced a moderate increase of triangularis sterni activity from 12.6 +/- 2.2 to 19.2 +/- 2.2 units (P less than 0.05), and stimulated a large increase of transversus abdominis activity from 9.4 +/- 2.7 to 28.5 +/- 2.6 units (P less than 0.01). Comparable effects were seen with similar doses of neurokinin A (8 dogs) and neurokinin B (3 dogs) administered intracisternally. Local application of substance P to the ventral medullary surface (5 dogs and 4 cats) also caused expiratory muscle activity to increase more than diaphragm activity, and in addition transversus abdominis activity increased to a larger extent than triangularis sterni activity. Furthermore, administration of the substance P antagonist [D-Pro2,D-Trp7,9]-SP to the ventral medullary surface decreased respiratory motor output, with expiratory muscles activity being attenuated to a greater extent than diaphragm activity. Application of neurotensin and N-methyl-D-asparate to the ventral surface of the medulla produced responses similar to those observed as a result of central administration of tachykinin peptides. The results suggest that 1) mammalian tachykinins are involved in the regulation of thoracic and abdominal expiratory muscle activity, 2) these muscles manifest substantial differences in their electrical responses to excitatory neuropeptides acting centrally, and 3) inputs from modulatory neurons located in this vicinity of the ventral medullary surface seem to be distributed unevenly to different expiratory premotor and/or motoneurons.


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