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Zablocki Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

1. This study tested the hypothesis that excitatory amino acid receptors mediate the excitatory response of expiratory bulbospinal neurones to carotid body chemoreceptor inputs. 2. Studies were carried out in thiopental sodium anaesthetized, paralysed, ventilated, vagotomized dogs. 3. Brisk, short-duration chemoreceptor activation was produced by bilateral bolus injections of CO2-saturated saline (PCO2 > 700 mmHg) into the autoperfused carotid arteries. A pressurized-reservoir-solenoid valve system was used to deliver the CO2 bolus injections just prior to the onset of the neural expiratory phase, as determined from the phrenic neurogram, about once per minute. 4. Multibarrelled micropipettes were used to record neuronal unit activity and deliver neurotransmitter agents. Net responses of expiratory bulbospinal neurones to peripheral chemoreceptor activation were determined by subtracting the mean discharge frequencies (Fn) during three control expiratory cycles from the Fn during administration of a CO2 test bolus. The role of excitatory amino acid receptors in mediating this response was determined by comparing the baseline and bolus expiratory neuronal Fn before, during and after the pressure microejection of the NMDA receptor antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (AP5) or the non-NMDA receptor antagonist 2,3-dihydroxy-6-nitro-7-sulphamoyl- benzo(f)quinoxaline (NBQX). Ejection rates of AP5 and NBQX were measured by monitoring the movement of the pipette meniscus. 5. AP5 reduced Fn during both the control and bolus cycles, as well as reducing the change in Fn between control and bolus cycles. NBQX had no effect on either baseline or bolus responses. 6. AP5 did not prevent excitation of expiratory bulbospinal neurones by AMPA. Coadministration of AMPA with AP5 prevented the AP5-mediated decrease in Fn but not the dose-dependent reduction in the CO2 bolus response. 7. Taken together, these data strongly suggest that the carotid chemoreceptor-mediated excitation of expiratory bulbospinal neurones is dependent on NMDA but not non-NMDA glutamate receptors.

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