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Experiments on anesthetized spinal cats showed that ammonium acetate, injected intravenously (2–4 mmoles/kg) inhibits the depolarization of the central endings of primary afferent fibers activated by stimulation of afferent nerves. Inhibition of primary afferent depolarization is transient in character and develops parallel with depression of postsynaptic inhibition of monosynaptic reflexes. The depression produced by the action of ammonium was not due to blocking of negative postsynaptic potentials of the dorsal surface of the spinal cord or blocking of reflex electrical discharges in the ventral spinal roots. It is suggested that depression of primary afferent depolarization is due to a decrease in the emf for synaptic ion currents producing depolarization.
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Allergologic Research Laboratory, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 52–60, January–February, 1977.
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Sverdlov, Y.S., Ruchinskaya, T.Y. Action of ammonium acetate on central primary afferent depolarization. Neurophysiology 9, 39–45 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063543
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