[Role of nitric oxide in the mechanisms of formation of reflex vasomotor responses].

This review focuses on modem data concerning the role of nitric oxide (NO) in the mechanisms of vasomotor regulation. On the background of the literature data and own experimental results, we have discussed some questions of NO integration into transmission of impulses in central and autonomic nervous system under condition of realization of cardiogenic and sinocarotid pressor and depressor reflexes, reflectory vasomotor responses formation under acute myocardial ischemia. According to literature and own functional and morphological data we suggest species differences in NO participations in mechanisms of reflex self--regulation of circulation.

[Sources of cortical, hypothalamic and spinal serotoninergic projections: topical organization in the dorsal Raphe nucleus].

Distribution of primuline, fast blue, fluoro-gold and nuclear yellow-labelled monoamine-containing cells in periventricular gray and dorsolateral tegmentum (including locus coeruleus) was studied in the rat after injection of these fluorochromes into the frontal cortex, hypothalamus and spinal cord. Combination of monoamine fluorescence method and retrograde cell-labelling was used. Two big groups of serotonin-positive cells projecting into the upper thoracic spinal segments were found in dorsomedial zone of the dorsal raphe.