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The microinjection of l-glutamate (1–6 nmol/rat) and N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA 1–10 nmol/rat), ionotropic glutamate receptor (iGluR) agonists, into the nucleus raphe obscurus caused a concentration-dependent increase of arterial blood pressure. In contrast, (±)-1-aminocyclopentane-trans-1, 3-dicarboxylic acid (t-ACPD, 14–42 nmol/rat), a metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluRs) agonist, caused a concentration-dependent decrease in blood pressure. Pretreatment with D, L-2-amino-phosphono valeric acid (2-APV, 5 nmol/rat) a selective NMDA iGluR antagonist, and (+)-5-methyl-10, 11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo[a, b] cyclohepten-5,10-imine hydrogen maleate (MK801, 0.9 nmol/rat), a noncompetitive NMDA iGluR antagonist, blocked both the glutamate and NMDA pressor responses, while pretreatment with (+)-α-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine (MCPG, 0.05 nmol/rat), a mGluR1 antagonist, increased the glutamate-induced pressor effects and blocked the fall in blood pressure induced by t-ACPD. 6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3dione-(CNQX, 0.4 nmol/rat) a non-NMDA iGluR antagonist, did not affected the glutamate-induced hypertension. These observations indicate opposing roles for ionotropic and metabotropic receptors in the glutamate-induced blood pressure changes elicited from the nucleus raphe obscurus. Moreover, we suggest that the glutamate-induced hypertension may be due to the activation of NMDA ionotropic receptor subtypes and the metabotropic receptors may influence this activaction through a reduction of excitability at level of synapses.
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D'Amico, M., Berrino, L., Pizzirusso, A. et al. Opposing effects on blood pressure following the activation of metabotropic and ionotropic glutamate receptors in raphe obscurus in the anaesthetized rat. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch Pharmacol 353, 302–305 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00168632
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