Abstract
A 2 min sample of an intracellular recording of in vivo synaptic activity from a vasomotor C-neuron in a bullfrog sympathetic ganglion was converted to a series of stimulus pulses. This physiologically derived activity was used to stimulate preganglionic C-fibres of similar ganglia studied in vitro. Intracellular recordings were made from exocrine B-cells within the ganglia. Although they do not receive fast, nicotinic synaptic input from preganglionic C-fibres, B-cell excitability was profoundly increased by stimulation of C-fibres with physiologically derived activity. Also, subthreshold depolarizing current pulses that failed to generate action potentials in B-cells under control conditions almost always generated action potentials whilst C-fibres were activated. These effects were attenuated or prevented by the luteinizing hormone releasing hormone antagonist, [D-pyro-Glu1,D-Phe2,D-Trp3,6]-LHRH (70 microM). The physiological release of luteinizing hormone releasing hormone from C-fibres therefore causes an interaction between vasomotor and exocrine outflow within a paravertebral sympathetic ganglion.
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