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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 277: R716-R724, 1999;
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Vol. 277, Issue 3, R716-R724, September 1999

Patterning of somatosympathetic reflexes

I. A. Kerman1 and B. J. Yates1,2

Departments of 1 Neuroscience and 2 Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

In a previous study, we reported that vestibular nerve stimulation in the cat elicits a specific pattern of sympathetic nerve activation, such that responses are particularly large in the renal nerve. This patterning of vestibulosympathetic reflexes was the same in anesthetized and decerebrate preparations. In the present study, we report that inputs from skin and muscle also elicit a specific patterning of sympathetic outflow, which is distinct from that produced by vestibular stimulation. Renal, superior mesenteric, and lumbar colonic nerves respond most strongly to forelimb and hindlimb nerve stimulation (~60% of maximal nerve activation), whereas external carotid and hypogastric nerves were least sensitive to these inputs (~20% of maximal nerve activation). In contrast to vestibulosympathetic reflexes, the expression of responses to skin and muscle afferent activation differs in decerebrate and anesthetized animals. In baroreceptor-intact animals, somatosympathetic responses were strongly attenuated (to <20% of control in every nerve) by increasing blood pressure levels to >150 mmHg. These findings demonstrate that different types of somatic inputs elicit specific patterns of sympathetic nerve activation, presumably generated through distinct neural circuits.

cutaneous input; muscle input; vestibular system; exercise; pain


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