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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 252: H1059-H1069, 1987;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 252, Issue 6 1059-H1069, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Contractile responses to sympathetic activation after coronary instrumentation

G. Heusch, B. D. Guth, D. M. Roth, R. Seitelberger and J. Ross Jr

The consequences of acute coronary dissection and chronic coronary instrumentation on contractile responses to sympathetic activation were examined in dogs. Stimulation of the left ventrolateral cervical cardiac nerve in seven anesthetized dogs after acute dissection of the left circumflex coronary artery (CX) did not change the increase in systolic shortening velocity. After acute dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD), nerve stimulation increased shortening velocity of the posterior wall in all dogs but enhanced that of the anterior wall in only five dogs. In six conscious dogs with chronic instrumentation of the CX, reflex sympathetic activation induced by occlusion of the inferior vena cava comparably increased thickening velocities of both the anterior wall and posterior walls both at 1 and 3 wk after instrumentation. In six other dogs with chronic instrumentation of the LAD, responses to caval occlusion were nonuniform and correlated to the morphological degree of sympathetic denervation. Therefore, acute dissection and chronic instrumentation of the LAD may produce sympathetic denervation but do not cause functionally significant sympathetic denervation of the CX region.


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