Characteristics of Spontaneous Discharges of ACG Visceral Nociceptive Neurons and Non-nociceptive Ones in Cats with Intracellular Recording[J]. Acupuncture research, 2000, (3): 179-183.
Characteristics of Spontaneous Discharges of ACG Visceral Nociceptive Neurons and Non-nociceptive Ones in Cats with Intracellular Recording[J]. Acupuncture research, 2000, (3): 179-183. DOI: 10.13702/j.1000-0607.2000.03.004.
Electrically stimulating greater splanchnic nerve(GSN) was used as an experiment model of visceral pain.The spontaneous firings of 176 stimulus-relative neurons in anterior cingulate gyrus(ACG)were analyzed by means of the intracellular recording techniques of glass microelectrode in cats.According to characteristics of the evoked response to stimulating GSN
stimulus-relative neurons could be classified into visceral nociceptive neurons(VNNs
8401%)and visceral non-nociceptive neurons(NVNNs
1591%).The main findings were as follows:(1)The percentage of number of spontaneous firing neurons was significantly higher in VNNs than in NVNNs.(2)The resting membrane potential of the former was significantly lower than that of the latter.(3)Modes and frequency of spontaneous discharges of both were not obviously different. The results indicated that there existed VNNs and NVNNs in ACG
and that the excitability of the VNNs was higher than that of the NVNNs.