Modulating the Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System: Stay Close to My Heart or Keep Your Distance?
Modulating the Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System: Stay Close to My Heart or Keep Your Distance?
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调节心脏自主神经系统:靠近我的心还是保持距离?
DOI:
10.1097/aln.0000000000004529
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发表时间:
2023
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影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Fox,AmandaA
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作者:
Bartels,Karsten;Fox,AmandaA
Perioperative cardiac protection research is needed to determine how to prevent and mitigate cardiac injury that can lead to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In this month’s edition of Anesthesiology, Dr. Howard-Quijano et al. 1 report effects of high thoracic spinal cord stimulation on decreasing sympathetic stimulation of the heart and corresponding ventricular arrhythmias. What is particularly meaningful about this paper is that the authors do experiments on Yorkshire pigs in order to define the biology underlying the favorable cardiac effects of high thoracic spinal cord stimulation. In their manuscript, the authors report findings from an elegant sequence of experiments demonstrating specifically that 1) spinal cord stimulation therapy during cardiac ischemia resulted in fewer ventricular arrhythmias, 2) intrathecal GABAA and GABAB receptor blockade eliminated the protective effects of spinal cord stimulation, 3) intrathecal administration of GABA transaminase inhibitor to increase spinal GABA concentrations resulted in less myocardial sympathoexcitation and ventricular arrhythmias to a similar degree as spinal cord stimulation, and 4) spinal cord stimulation resulted in more GABAA but not GABAB receptor expression. 1The findings of Dr. Howard-Quijano et al. 1 are concordant with other animal-experimental studies that use chronic neuropathic pain models. Spinal cord stimulation after partial sciatic nerve ligation in rodents results in improved analgesia. 2 Yet, analgesic effects of spinal cord stimulation are abolished by intrathecal administration of GABAA and GABAB antagonists. 2 Hence, the GABAergic mechanisms responsible for spinal cord stimulation-mediated analgesia for neuropathic pain may be quite similar to the mechanism responsible for spinal cord stimulation-mediated attenuation of ischemia/reperfusion-induced sympathoexcitation and ventricular arrhythmias.