Serotonin-evoked modifications of the neuronal firing rate in the superior vestibular nucleus: a microiontophoretic study in the rat

Neuroscience
F LicataF Santangelo

Abstract

Microiontophoretic ejection (10-100 nA) of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) into the superior vestibular nucleus induced modifications of the mean firing rate in 87% of the neurons examined. The responses to 5-hydroxytryptamine application were excitatory in 48% of the cells, inhibitory in 29%, and biphasic (inhibitory/excitatory) in the remaining 10%. The excited neurons were scattered throughout the nucleus; the units inhibited or characterized by biphasic responses were distinctly more numerous in the ventrolateral sector of the nucleus. The magnitude of both excitatory and inhibitory effects was dose-dependent. The excitatory responses to 5-hydroxytryptamine were blocked or greatly reduced by two 5-hydroxytryptamine antagonists, methysergide and ketanserin, or even reversed in many cases. Inhibitory responses were enhanced by simultaneous application of 5-hydroxytryptamine antagonists in half of the units studied. In the remaining units, ketanserin left the response unmodified, whereas methysergide reduced but never quite blocked it. The application of 5-methoxy-N,N- dimethyltryptamine, a 5-hydroxytryptamine agonist more effective on 5-hydroxytryptamine1 than on 5-hydroxytryptamine2 receptors, and of 8-hydroxy-2(di-n-propyl-...Continue Reading

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