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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-8-26
pubmed:abstractText
Sympathetic efferent activities to the heart during blood pressure changes were investigated in 11 dogs with acute myocardial ischemia. Normalized sympathetic efferent activities recorded in thoracic cardiac nerves decreased or increased as anticipated in response to transient changes in mean arterial pressure (15 to 25 mm Hg with nitroglycerin or phenylephrine, 2 to 8 micrograms/kg, intravenously). A branch of the left circumflex coronary artery was occluded, and the arterial pressure challenges were repeated at 5, 15, and 25 minutes after the occlusion. The control (preocclusion) responses in sympathetic efferent activities to the heart ranged from +/- 2% to 70% (changes relative to steady state normalized at 100%). Reflex sympathetic efferent responses were diminished at 15 and 25 minutes of ischemia. Several sympathetic efferent baroreflex responses during myocardial ischemia were paradoxic. Reflex sympathetic efferent changes were not affected in sham animals. These results indicate that both increases and decreases in cardiac sympathetic efferent activities during baroreflex challenges are attenuated within 15 to 25 minutes of acute coronary artery occlusion. These findings suggest that an abnormal buffering of blood pressure changes during acute myocardial ischemia might lead to autonomic dysfunction that promotes arrhythmogenesis and sudden cardiac death.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0002-8703
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
126
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
347-51
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Attenuation of baroreflex changes in cardiac sympathetic efferent activities during acute myocardial ischemia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294-0005.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.