Characteristics of Glutamate-Evoked Temporomandibular Joint Afferent Activity in the Rat

Journal of Neurophysiology - Tập 85 Số 6 - Trang 2446-2454 - 2001
Brian E. Cairns1, Barry J. Sessle1, James W. Hu1
1Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1G6 Canada

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Injection of glutamate into the rat temporomandibular joint (TMJ) capsule can reflexly induce a prolonged increase in the electromyographic (EMG) activity of the jaw muscles, however, the characteristics of TMJ afferents activated by glutamate have not been investigated. In the present study, we examined the effect of glutamate injection into the TMJ capsule on jaw muscle EMG activity and the extracellularly recorded activity of single trigeminal afferents that had receptive fields in the TMJ tissue and antidromically identified projections to the brain stem subnucleus caudalis (Vc) in rats of both sexes. Glutamate (0.05–1.0 M, 10 μl) injection into the TMJ capsule evoked EMG activity in a dose-related manner; however, at concentrations of 0.5 and 1.0 M, glutamate-evoked digastric muscle responses were greater in female than in male rats. In experiments where jaw muscle EMG and afferent activity were recorded simultaneously, glutamate (0.5 M, 10 μl) injection into the TMJ capsule evoked activity in the jaw muscles as well as in 27 (26 Aδ and 1 C-fiber afferent) of 34 trigeminal afferents that could be activated by blunt mechanical stimulation of the TMJ tissue. In these experiments, glutamate-evoked jaw muscle activity was significantly increased for 6 min after the glutamate injection, whereas afferent activity was significantly increased only during the first minute after the glutamate injection. The glutamate-evoked afferent activity was inversely related to conduction velocity and, in afferents with conduction velocities <10 m/s, was significantly greater in female ( n = 6) than in male ( n = 10) rats. These results suggest that glutamate excites putative nociceptive afferents within the TMJ to a greater degree in female than in male rats. This sex-related difference in afferent discharge may, in part, underlie sex-related differences in glutamate-evoked jaw muscle EMG activity.

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Journal of Neurophysiology

Tập 85 Số 6

2446-2454

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