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A strategy based upon a comparative decrease in bilateral symmetry of cytochrome oxidase (COX) histochemistry following unilateral eye enucleation was used to identify the primary visual area in the area dorsalis of the telencephalon of the goldfish, Carassius auratus. The lateral zone of area dorsalis (Dl) at about the level of the anterior commissure exhibits such a bilateral difference. A parallel decline in the symmetry COX reactivity was observed in the associated part of the central zone (Dc). Electrophysiological activity using extracellular techniques confirmed the visually-driven activity of neurons in these areas. Lesions confirmed the loci in the lateral zone of area dorsalis, including both its dorsal and ventral parts. Single- and multi-unit recordings exhibited a variety of responses to different light stimuli. Single unit latency measures proved not to be a reliable measure of target areas. Responses habituated to stimuli repeated within 5 s and were only reliably evoked with intervals greater than several seconds.
Galanin exerts an inhibitory effect on locus coeruleus (LC) neurons via a postsynaptic, as yet unidentified galanin receptor. Using an in vitro intracellular recording technique the effect of two galanin receptor agonists on LC neurons was investigated. Bath application of [Sar(1), D-Ala(12)]gal(1-16)-NH(2) (AR-M961), an agonist both at galanin R1 and R2 (GALR1, GALR2) receptors, evoked a reversible membrane hyperpolarization and inhibition of spike discharge in all LC neurons tested (n=42). The action of AR-M961 was blocked by tetraethylammonium chloride. Hyperpolarizing responses induced by AR-M961 were retained in the presence of tetrodotoxin and high Mg(2+)/low Ca(2+) media. The selective GALR2 agonist Gal(2-11)-NH(2) (AR-M1896) only caused inhibition of spike discharge and a slight hyperpolarization in 26 of 34 LC neurons tested, and was on a molar basis much weaker than AR-M961. These results suggest that it mainly is the GALR1 receptor that mediates hyperpolarization of LC neurons.
Novel findings of changes in nociceptive dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons during hindlimb inflammation induced by complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) injections in the hindpaw and hindleg are reported. These include increased maximum fiber following frequency in nociceptive C- and Adelta-fiber units by 2.7 and 3 times, respectively, and increased incidence of ongoing (spontaneous) activity by 3.3 times (to 54%) and 2.4 times (to 27%), respectively. These changes and the CFA-induced changes in somatic action potential (AP) configuration in nociceptive neurons (Djouhri and Lawson, 1999) were incomplete 24 hr after CFA. The nerve growth factor (NGF) dependence of the inflammation-induced changes was examined by injecting a synthetic NGF sequestering protein [tyrosine receptor kinase A Ig2 (trkA Ig2)] with CFA and subsequently into the CFA injection sites. NGF sequestration prevented some CFA-induced changes in nociceptive neurons including: the increased fiber following frequency (C and Adelta), the increased proportions of units with ongoing activity (C and Adelta), the decreased AP duration (C and Adelta), but not the decreased afterhyperpolarization (AHP) durations (C, Adelta, and Aalpha/beta) (Djouhri and Lawson, 1999). AP variables of nociceptive units with spontaneous activity were examined. The time course of electrophysiological changes in nociceptive units is consistent with processes involving altered protein expression and/or retrograde transport of factors. These results (1) implicate NGF in regulating inflammation-induced decreases in AP duration and in increases in firing rate and spontaneous activity but not in decreases in AHP duration and (2) suggest clinical advantages of reducing NGF in some inflammatory pain states.