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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 240: H793-H799, 1981;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 240, Issue 5 793-H799, Copyright © 1981 by American Physiological Society

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Abnormalities in baroreflex control of heart rate in canine heart failure

C. W. White

The mechanism of the attenuated arterial baroreceptor control of heart rate in heart failure was studied in 18 unanesthetized dogs after the development of chronic right-heart failure and compared to 12 control animals. The change in heart rate and arterial pressure in response to increases in right carotid sinus pressure during isolated carotid sinus perfusion was markedly reduced in heart failure (P less than 0.05). After vagotomy the difference in heart rate responses persisted, but was less pronounced (P = 0.065). The chronotropic response to perfusion of the sinus node artery with acetylcholine in heart-failure dogs showed a selectively depressed response, when compared to norepinephrine and hypertonic saline. The ratio of the change in heart rate in heart-failure vs. control dogs was 57% for acetylcholine but was not diminished for hypertonic saline (114%). The effect of direct vagal nerve stimulation on changes in heart rate was also markedly reduced in heart-failure dogs. These studies demonstrate that the alterations in baroreceptor control of heart rate in heart failure involve both the parasympathetic and sympathetic baroreflex efferent limbs. There is, in addition, a depressed responsiveness of the sinus node to cholinergic stimuli.


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