Insulin-induced hypoglycemia does not impair the surge of luteinizing hormone secretion in the proestrous rat |
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Authors: | M Kawaguchi T Funabashi F Kimura |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201, USA. |
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Abstract: | Dopamine (DA) neurons in the ventral tegmental area and substantia nigra pars compacta were induced to fire in bursts with application of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA, 20 microM) and apamin (100 nM) while recording intracellularly in the rat brain slice. L-Arginine (300 microM), a substrate for nitric oxide (NO) production, increased both the number of spikes per burst and the magnitude of interburst hyperpolarizations. Nitric oxide synthase inhibitors N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, 100 microM), N-nitro-L-arginine, and 7-nitroindazole inhibited NMDA-induced burst firing by reducing the number of spikes per burst. Moreover, L-arginine (100 microM) reversed the inhibition of burst firing produced by L-NAME. These findings suggest that NO facilitates NMDA-induced burst firing in DA neurons. |
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