Baroreflex ?resetting? by arterial hypoxia in the renal and cardiac sympathetic nerves of the rabbit
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 370 (1), 1-7
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00707938
Abstract
Renal and cardiac sympathetic baroreflex functions were studied in sodium pentobarbitone anaesthetized rabbits given succinylcholine, during constant artificial ventilation with air and with hypoxic gas mixtures. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) was raised and lowered between values of 40 and 140 mm Hg by means of aortic and vena caval perivascular balloons and integrated sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) was recorded. The relationship between MAP and SNA was sigmoid, with upper and lower plateau levels. The curves were defined by calculating median blood pressure, SNA Range and reflex gain. In both renal and cardiac sympathetics section of the carotid sinus and aortic nerves completely abolished the MAP-related changes in SNA. The renal baroreflex curves were reset from control levels during hypoxia. Median blood pressure increased, as did SNA Range and gain. These effects were due to central interactions between arterial baroreceptor, arterial chemoreceptor and vagal afferent activity. The cardiac sympathetic baroreflex curves were shifted in the opposite direction from control with reduction in median blood pressure, SNA Range and reflex gain. These changes were due to chemoreceptor-arterial baroreceptor interactions. Arterial hypoxia thus evokes a differentiated pattern of baroreflex resetting in the renal and cardiac sympathetic motoneuron pools with differing changes in neural response range and sensitivity to arterial pressure changes.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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