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These mechanisms are based on slow electrotonic variations inside the membrane potential of non-spiking neurones propagating only more than pretty quick distances [336]. The mechanism we propose requires the recurrent production of ceramide, most likely from rafts to rafts along the fibres. This really is achieved by means of the activation in cascade of your very same second messenger sequence involving calcium, NO and GMPc (Fig. 6). This adds a new role for ceramide that is already known to be involved in key biological processes such as cell growth, differentiation, apoptosis and senescence [379] as well as modulation of neuronal synaptic activation [40,41]. The mechanosensor triggering the neuronal conduction of excitation nevertheless remains to be determined. It may be sphingomyelinase itself due to the fact it has been demonstrated in vascular endothelial cells that neutral sphingomyelinase was activated by a transient mechanical stimulus [42,43]. We have demonstrated previously that through the GIR, NO will be the neurotransmitter released by the gastric afferent fibres to activate the ganglionic neurons [2]. So through the functioning of the autonomic Ciliary neurotrophic element (CNTF) is a neurotrophic cytokine belonging to the interleukin-6 sort family. In the CNS, CNTF is introduced by astrocytes and stimulates the survival of building neurons networks involved within the organization of the GIR, exactly the same molecule, NO, is involved in both the conduction of excitation with no action potentials within the nerve fibres and inside the communication in between the neurons with the ganglionic networks. This can be fundamentally diverse in the classic functioning of the neuronal networks which entails a conduction of excitation determined by the propagation of action potentials (on account of ionic fluxes) along with the activation of membrane receptors because of the release of neurotransmitters. Thus, the properties on the mechanism we propose open up new prospects regarding the functioning of neuronal networks.All procedures concerning the handling of experimental animals have already been authorized by the French Ministry of Agriculture and are in agreement together with the European Communities Council Directive (86/609/EEC).We've got employed an in vitro integrated physiological model. Experiments had been performed on 174 rabbits as currently published [2]. The organ bath has been modified and now has 3 adjacent compartments (Figure S1): the very first contained the coeliac plexus and the proximal component in the peripheral nerve fibres connecting the coeliac plexus for the viscera, the second contained the main part of these fibres as well as the third the distal element of these fibres plus the viscera (stomach and duodenum). A myotomy was performed in the pyloric region to interrupt the enteric nervous pathways amongst the stomach and duodenum. All these compartments could possibly be superfused independently with drugs, their separation becoming accomplished with Vaseline grease. The technical traits of this set-up make it achievable to trigger excitation devoid of action potentials inside the proximal component on the nerve fibres (by agonist superfusion of the coeliac plexus) and to block it downstream by selectively superfusing with drugs the compartment containing the main portion of those fibres. This protocol was used in certain to recognize the endogenous molecules involved within the conduction along the nerve fibres of excitation without action potentials. Gastric distensions employed to trigger the GIR have been within a physiological variety given that they bring the stomach to a volume related to Figure 6. Model of a neuronal conduction of