Intracardiac route of the Bezold-Jarisch reflex.
Intracardiac route of the Bezold-Jarisch reflex.
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Bezold-Jarisch 反射的心内路线。
DOI:
10.1152/ajplegacy.1971.221.5.1464
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发表时间:
1971
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通讯作者:
T. James
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作者:
R. Frink;T. James
FRINK, RICHARD J., AND THOMAS N. JAMES. Intracardiac route of the Bezold-Jarisch reflex. Am. J. Physiol. 221 (5): 1464-1469. 1971.-The Bezold-Jarisch reflex originates in the left ventricle and produces sinus bradycardia and arterial hypotension. Although it is known that the reflex is mediated via the vagus nerve, its intracardiac route is not known. Our experiments considered three possible afferent routes from the left ventricle: 1) in company with the coronary veins to the coronary sinus and egress from the heart there, 2) in company with the Purkinje system to the left septal endocardium and then via the His bundle back to the coronary sinus, 3) in company with the coronary arteries to the root of the aorta. By cannulating the distal left circumflex artery, selective perfusion with 2 y0 xylocaine blocked the first route; by cannulating the septal artery, selective perfusion with xylocaine blocked the second route; by periarterial infiltration with xylocaine around the main left coronary artery, the third route was blocked. Both the first procedures produced AV block, but none of the three procedures altered normal sinus node responsiveness to vagal stimulation (direct or reflex). Twenty-six dogs were anesthetized with sodium pentobarbital, and the reflex regularly elicited with injection of nicotine into the left anterior descending artery. In 10 dogs the production of local anesthesia and AV block by direct perfusion into the distal left circumflex artery failed to alter the reflex sinus bradycardia. In 11 dogs the production of anesthetic AV block by direct perfusion into the septal artery failed to alter the reflex sinus bradycardia. In four dogs xylocaine anesthesia in both sites still failed to eliminate the reflex. Local infiltration of xylocaine around the main left coronary artery in seven dogs blocked the reflex in all seven. We conclude that the intracardiac route of the Bezold-Jaris& reflex funnels toward the origin of the main left coronary artery for egress from the heart. experimental AV block; reflex sinus bradycardiaTHE BEZOLD-JARISCH REFLEX has beenknown for about 100 years (2, 19, 20, 24). Its principal cardiovascular components are bradycardia and arterial hypotension. Although long familiar to physiologists and pharmacologists, it has generally been considered an oddity of the experimental laboratory. However, bradycardia and hypotension are a frequent clinical observation during acute posterior myocardial infarction in man, and these often (but not always) respond dramatically to the administration of atropine, suggesting that they represent a human counterpart to the experimental reflex (1, 10, 11, 16, 28, 30). Characteristically, the experimental reflex is elicited by chemical stimulation of receptors in the left ventricle with either nicotine or veratridine. Although it has been suggested that the reflex is mediated by coronary chemoreceptors (5), Sleight (29) was able to abolish the response to topically applied nicotine by local anesthesia of the left