Affiliation:
1. Институт физиологии им. Л.А. Орбели НАН РА
Abstract
Microelectrophysiological studies were carried out on 12 intact Albino rats (250±30 g) with hydrocortisone injection, compared with the norm. A software mathematical analysis of a single spike activity of 282 neurons was carried out. The spike activity of single PAG and RMG neurons was recorded extracellularly in separate series of experiments, with successive involvement of each of them as stimulated and recorded. When assessing the relative degree severity of depressor and excitatory post-stimulus effects, using the example of diagrams of the average spike frequency in PAG at HFS RMG under hydrocortisone exposure in normal conditions, both in the depressor and excitatory sequences, in comparison with those without hydrocortisone, no significant changes were detected, but there was a greater severity of these values in the norm without hydrocortisone, in particular, preceding excitatory effects, which indicates not only the harmlessness of the indicated dose of hydrocortisone, but also a certain improvement in the normal status. In RMG neurons on HFS PAG, both in the norm without and under hydrocortisone exposure, a protective increase in tetanic depression was revealed in both sequences, without excess of poststimulus excitability. In general, for both PAG and RMG, a greater severity of pre- and post-stimulus frequency, preceding and accompanying excitatory effects in the norm without hydrocortisone, and a greater balance of depressor and excitatory post-stimulus manifestations of activity under hydrocortisone exposure than in the norm were revealed, which indicates the safety and even the benefit of that dose of hydrocortisone.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia