Behavior of Cardiac Receptors with Nonmyelinated Vagal Afferents during Spontaneous Respiration in Cats
Behavior of Cardiac Receptors with Nonmyelinated Vagal Afferents during Spontaneous Respiration in Cats
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猫自主呼吸过程中非髓鞘迷走神经传入心脏受体的行为
DOI:
10.1161/01.res.41.5.694
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发表时间:
1977
影响因子:
20.1
通讯作者:
J. Shepherd
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文献类型:
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作者:
M. Thames;J. Shepherd
SUMMARY Activity from left atrial and left ventricular receptors with nonmyelinated vagal afferents (mean conduction velocity, 1.2 m/sec) was recorded in 13 closed-chest spontaneously breathing cats anesthetized with achloralose. The anatomic position of each receptor was determined by probing the opened heart at the conclusion of the experiment. Three of eight left atrial receptors and four of five left ventricular receptors were silent under resting conditions. The mean discharge frequency under resting conditions for the six receptors displaying spontaneous activity was 1.0 ± 0.15 impulse/sec. Thus cardiac receptors with vagal nonmyelinated afferents have a low resting discharge in spontaneously breathing cats. The frequency and pattern of discharge of atrial but not of ventricular receptors was altered during spontaneous respiration. The atrial receptors discharged with cardiac rhythmicity during end inspiration and early expiration when transmural pressure was greatest and were silent for the remainder of the respiratory cycle. When respiration was augmented by CO, breathing or blood volume was increased, the rate of discharge was a linear function of atrial transmural pressure. Eleven ventricular receptors with nonmyelinated afferents (mean conduction velocity, 1.0 m/sec) were exposed to graded volume expansion and phenylephrine infusion in eight open-chest and three spontaneously breathing cats. Raising left ventricular enddiastolic pressure alone increased the frequency of discharge, and a concomitant increase in systolic pressure caused a further increase in firing.