Maturation of porcine tracheal cholinergic and inhibitory non-adrenergic, non-cholinergic innervation

Pediatric Pulmonology
P E HodgsonD J Hatch

Abstract

It is known that both excitatory cholinergic neural activity and nitric oxide (NO) release from inhibitory non-adrenergic, non-cholinergic (iNANC) nerves are important determinants of adult human airway smooth muscle tone. However, the level of cholinergic and iNANC activity in the newborn is unknown. Therefore, isolated trachealis muscle strips were obtained from neonatal, 10-day-old, and adult pigs. To quantify cholinergic nerve activity, isometric contractions were elicited by stimulating the nicotinic receptors of the cholinergic intramural ganglia with dimethyl-phenyl-piperazinium (DMPP). After ganglionic blockade with hexamethonium, the post-ganglionic cholinergic nerves were subjected to electrical field stimulation (EFS). To assess whether DMPP and EFS were also stimulating nitric oxide release from iNANC nerves, the stimulations were repeated after NO-synthase inhibition with 3 x 10(-5) M NG-monomethyl-L-arginine acetate (LNMMA). All responses were expressed as a percentage of maximal response to 10(-4) M acetylcholine. Although no significant age-related differences in the contractile responses to DMPP were demonstrated between the three age groups, the EFS responses were significantly different. At EFS frequencies of...Continue Reading

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