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J Neurophysiol 60: 1497-1512, 1988;
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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 60, Issue 4 1497-1512, Copyright © 1988 by APS

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Synaptic integrative properties at hyperbaric pressure

Y. Grossman and J. J. Kendig
Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5117.

1. Because hyperbaric pressure profoundly depresses excitatory synaptic transmission, it has proved difficult to account for its excitatory effects in the CNS. We tested the hypothesis that hyperbaric pressure might increase excitation by enhancing facilitation and potentiation during repetitive synaptic activation, and/or by selectively depressing inhibitory synaptic transmission. Intracellular microelectrode recordings were obtained from crustacean muscle fibers innervated by single identifiable excitor and inhibitor motor neurons; the preparations were exposed to pressures of 0.1-10.1 MPa. 2. Hyperbaric pressure reduced the amplitude of the singly evoked excitatory junctional potential (EJP), enhanced paired-pulse facilitation, and increased the potentiation elicited by trains of stimuli. The potentiated EJP at 10.1 MPa approached the comparable response evoked at normobaric pressure. 3. Hyperbaric pressure also depressed inhibitory synaptic transmission, measured as depression of the EJP by the inhibitor motor neuron. However, pressure depressed excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission to the same extent. Thus there appears to be no selective effect of pressure on the GABA-activated chloride channel. The amplitude of the inhibited EJP at 10.1 MPa remained below that at normobaric pressure, even during repetitive stimulation. 4. The results do not support the hypothesis that pressure increases central excitation by selectively depressing inhibitory transmission per se; enhancement of potentiation, however, probably plays an important role. In this preparation, in which inhibitory transmission also displays facilitation, pressure did not increase overall excitation or alter the balance between excitation and inhibition. 5. These results predict that a pressure-excitable network should encompass excitatory synaptic connections which exhibit pronounced facilitation and inhibitory synapses with little or no facilitation.


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