Cardiac receptors in the dog, with particular reference to two types of afferent ending in the ventricular wall
Cardiac receptors in the dog, with particular reference to two types of afferent ending in the ventricular wall
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狗的心脏受体,特别是心室壁中的两种类型的传入末梢
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1964
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C. Kidd
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H. Coleridge;J. Coleridge;C. Kidd
A great deal is known about afferent endings in the atrial walls of the heart. Histological studies have yielded descriptions of their appearance and distribution, and electrophysiological investigations have enabled their impulse activity to be extensively described (reviewed by Paintal, 1963). Less is known about receptors in the ventricles. A variety of afferent endings have been demonstrated histologically in the ventricular wall (see Discussion) but without any clearly defined pattern of distribution such as Nonidez (1937) found in the atrium. The impulse activity of ventricular fibres has been described in detail in cats (Paintal, 1955) and in frogs (Kolatat, Kramer & Miihl, 1957) but there has so far been no detailed account of these fibres in the dog. This is surprising in view of the many attempts made in this animal to evoke reflex effects by distending the ventricle (e.g. Salisbury, Cross & Rieben, 1960). The present paper describes experiments in which impulses were recorded in dogs from ventricular fibres with a cardiac rhythm of discharge, similar to those described by Paintal (1955) in the cat. In addition, other fibres were encountered with an irregular type of discharge and whose afferent endings were near the epicardial surface of the ventricles. Some further observations were also made on the distribution and nerve connexions of receptors in the atria.