Profound hypotension and abolition of the vasomotor component of the cerebral ischemic response produced by restricted lesions of medulla oblongata in rabbit. Relationship to the so-called tonic vasomotor center.
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Circulation Research
- Vol. 45 (1), 63-70
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.res.45.1.63
Abstract
The effect of bilateral electrolytic lesions in the medulla oblongata on the cerebral ischemic reflex was studied in 24 anesthetized rabbits. In 15 animals, lesions were placed in areas from which the differentiated vasomotor component of the response was elicited by electrical stimulation. In 4 rabbits (group A) the lesions entirely abolished the vasomotor, but not cardiac, responses to cerebral ischemia, and resulted in an irreversible fall, to 30-40 mm Hg, of the arterial pressure (AP). The lesions destroyed large portions of the nucleus reticularis parvocellularis, the dorsal part of the nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis, and the ventromedial portion of the medial vestibular nuclei at the level of the inferior olive (3 mm rostral to the obex). In 4 other rabbits (group B) the pressor response was reduced to 25-67% of control with a fall of AP not as marked as that in group A. The lesions were within the same areas or very close to those of group, but smaller. In the remaining 7 rabbits (group C) the lesions did not alter the ischemic response or AP; they were either restricted to the nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis alone, were smaller than in group B, or if large, were located several millimeters more rostral to those of group A. In 9 control rabbits lesions placed elsewhere in the medullar failed to alter the ischemic response or resting AP. The vasomotor, but not the cardiac or respiratory, components of the cerebral ischemic response depend upon a restricted portion of the bulbar reticular formation. The integrity of this region is essential for maintenance of normal resting levels of AP and appears to function as the so-called tonic vasomotor center of the brainstem.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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