Partial transection of the ipsilateral cervical spinal cord evokes a sustained increase in the adrenal section of catecholamines in the cat.

Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System
D A Bereiter

Abstract

The importance of cervical spinal pathways on the adrenal secretion of catecholamines was assessed in chloralose-anesthetized cats. Partial transections of the upper cervical spinal cord were made ipsilateral (n = 21) or contralateral (n = 10) to the adrenal vein sampling catheter. Ipsilateral cuts evoked an immediate increase in the adrenal secretion of epinephrine that remained elevated at 60 min (+89.7 +/- 27.0 ng/min, P less than 0.001) and increased the epinephrine/norepinephrine secretory ratio from 1.99 +/- 0.4 to 5.02 +/- 0.6 by 60 min (P less than 0.01) indicating a preferential augmentation of the secretion of epinephrine. The magnitude of the increase in secretion of epinephrine was well correlated with the cross-sectional area of the ipsilateral cut (rs = 0.681, P less than 0.01). In contrast, partial transections of similar size made contralateral to the adrenal vein sample evoked significantly smaller increases in the adrenal secretion of epinephrine by 60 min (+12.7 +/- 4.8 ng/min) and were not correlated with the cross-sectional area of the cut. The region of transection common to those experiments that caused the greatest increase in the secretion of catecholamines included the deep laminae (laminae V-VII) with...Continue Reading

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