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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 258: H939-H945, 1990;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 258, Issue 4 939-H945, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Lung inflation evokes reflex dilation of microvessels in rat skeletal muscle

J. Yu, A. M. Roberts and I. G. Joshua
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky 40292.

Lung inflation can reflexively decrease peripheral resistance, but effects on the microcirculation have not been determined. In this study, we examined the effects of lung inflation on microvessels in skeletal muscle. In anesthetized spontaneously breathing rats, the right cremaster muscle with intact circulation and innervation was exposed and suspended in a tissue bath filled with a physiological salt solution. Diameters of third-order arterioles (3As) were displayed by television microscopy and measured as an index of microcirculatory resistance. In other experiments, sympathetic activity (in the genital femoral nerve) to the cremaster was recorded. Lung inflation decreased systemic blood pressure by 32 +/- 3 mmHg and increased 3A diameter by approximately 23% (P less than 0.05, n = 17). The increase was abolished by cutting the cervical vagus nerves or the right genital femoral nerve. Furthermore, inflation decreased sympathetic nerve activity by 47.6 +/- 11.3% (P less than 0.05, n = 5) before vagotomy but not after. Dilation in response to inflation was also abolished by phentolamine or guanethidine. These results suggest that stimulation of vagal afferents by inflation reflexively decreases microvascular resistance by withdrawal of sympathetic tone.


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