INTERRUPTION OF SYMPATHETIC AND VAGAL-MEDIATED AFFERENT RESPONSES BY TRANSMURAL MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION
INTERRUPTION OF SYMPATHETIC AND VAGAL-MEDIATED AFFERENT RESPONSES BY TRANSMURAL MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.72.3.623
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
ZIPES, DP
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作者:
BARBER, MJ;MUELLER, TM;ZIPES, DP
Sympathetic and vagal afferents travel in an apical-to-basal course in the heart and can be stimulated selectively with epicardial applications of bradykinin and nicotine, respectively. The hypothesis that transmural myocardial infarction (TMI) interrupts sympathetic and vagal afferent fibers traveling through the infarction and produces regions of afferent denervation in areas apical to the infarction was tested. In open-chest, chloralose-anesthetized dogs TMI was created by embolizing a diagonal branch of the left anterior descending coronary artery with a vinyl latex solution that was injected directly into the artery and hardened rapidly. The transmural nature of the infarction was verified by the nitro blue tetrazolium staining technique for dehydrogenase enzymes. Epicardial applications of bradykinin (5 .mu.g) and nicotine (50 .mu.g) were used to stimulate chemically sensitive sympathetic and vagal afferent nerve endings, respectively. Twenty-nine dogs were studied before and 90 min after creation of TMI. In 20 dogs, epicardial bradykinin applied before production of TMI produced a maximal pressor response of 13 .+-. 3 mm Hg 40 s after application (P < .01 vs. preapplication values), while topical nicotine produced a maximal depressor response of 14 .+-. 2 mm Hg (P < .01 vs. preapplication values) 20 s after application at all sites tested. Ninety min after production of TMI, epicardial sites basal to the infarction continued to respond normally to both drugs, while sites within the area of infarction and apical to the area (noninfarcted myocardium) no longer showed a pressor response to topical bradykinin or a depressor response to topical nicotine. Nerve interruptions in 12 dogs demonstrated that the sympathetic afferent responses elicited by bradykinin were eliminated with bilateral stellectomy, while vagal afferent responses elicited by nicotine were interrupted by transection of the cervical vagi. In 10 dogs, more extensive epicardial mapping of responses to the 2 drugs revealed that sites were not always afferently denervated in a homogeneous manner. Several sites medial and apical to the TMI continued to show pressor responses to bradykinin, but were unresponsive to topical nicotine. TMI produces areas of both sympathetic and vagal afferent denervation in infarcted and in noninfarcted myocardium apical to the region of infarction. This afferent denervation is not homogeneous in all areas.