PMID: 9435599Jan 22, 1998Paper

Influence of sympathetic blockade on the acute hypertensive response to aortic constriction

The American Journal of Physiology
R Fazan JúniorHelio Cesar Salgado

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to determine the contribution of the sympathetic nervous system to the hypertensive response to acute (45-min) aortic coarctation in conscious intact or sinoaortic-denervated (SAD) rats. Rats were treated chronically (5 wk) with guanethidine (50 mg.kg-1.day-1 i.p.) to induce sympathetic nerve degeneration or acutely with the alpha 1-adrenergic receptor antagonist prazosin. (1 mg/kg i.v.). Aortic constriction elicited a prompt and sustained rise in mean carotid pressure that was significantly greater in SAD than in intact rats. The increase in pressure was associated with reflex bradycardia only in the intact rats, whereas the heart rate of SAD rats did not change. Guanethidine treatment did not affect the arterial pressure or heart rate responses to aortic coarctation of intact rats but blunted the hypertensive response of SAD rats to the same values exhibited by intact rats. Prazosin administered 10 min after the beginning of aortic coarctation reduced the hypertensive response of SAD rats to the same level as that of intact rats. In conclusion, the data obtained by means of the association of sinoaortic deafferentation with chronic sympathectomy with guanethidine or acute alpha 1-adrener...Continue Reading

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