Respiratory and body temperature modulation by adenosine A1 receptors in the anteroventral preoptic region during normoxia and hypoxia.

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to investigate adenosine as a simultaneous mediator of hypoxia-induced hyperventilation and regulated hypothermia in the anteroventral preoptic region (AVPO), the thermointegrative region of the central nervous system (CNS). Accordingly, we predicted that injection of aminophylline and DPCPX, non-selective and A(1) receptor antagonists, respectively, into the AVPO would exacerbate the ventilatory response and lessen the drop in body temperature (T(b)) caused by hypoxia. We measured ventilation (V ) and T(b) of conscious Wistar rats before and after AVPO injection of aminophylline (1 and 10 microg/100 nL) or DPCPX (17.5 and 175 ng/100 nL), or their respective vehicles, followed by 30 min of hypoxia (7% O(2)). Vehicles and the lower doses of both antagonists had no effect on V and T(b) during normoxia or hypoxia. The higher doses of aminophylline and DPCPX increased (P<0.05) the hypoxia-induced hyperventilation, whereas the drop in T(b) elicited by hypoxia was attenuated (P<00.05) by DPCPX only. This higher DPCPX dose also increased T(b) during normoxia. The present data is consistent with the notion that adenosine plays an inhibitory role in respiratory and metabolic regulation, in a way that A(1) receptors stimulation in the AVPO inhibits ventilatory drive during hypoxia and tonically modulates basal T(b).

• Authors: Renata C H Barros, Luiz G S Branco, Evelin C Cárnio
• Journal: Respiratory physiology & neurobiology (Respir Physiol Neurobiol) Vol. 153 Issue 2 Pg. 115-25 (Sep 28 2006) ISSN: 1569-9048 [Print] Netherlands
• PMID: 16352472 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Adenosine A1 Receptor Antagonists
• Receptor, Adenosine A1
• Xanthines
• Aminophylline
• 1,3-dipropyl-8-cyclopentylxanthine
• Adenosine

Topics

• Adaptation, Physiological
• Adenosine (physiology)
• Adenosine A1 Receptor Antagonists
• Aminophylline (administration & dosage)
• Analysis of Variance
• Animals
• Body Temperature Regulation (physiology)
• Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
• Hypoxia (metabolism)
• Male
• Microinjections
• Preoptic Area (drug effects, metabolism)
• Rats
• Rats, Wistar
• Receptor, Adenosine A1 (metabolism)
• Respiration
• Tidal Volume (physiology)
• Xanthines (administration & dosage)