The effects of acetylcholine in the heart‐lung preparation including the production of auricular fibrillation
The effects of acetylcholine in the heart‐lung preparation including the production of auricular fibrillation
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10.1113/jphysiol.1955.sp005306
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1955-05
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J. Burn;E. Williams;J. Walker
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作者:
J. Burn;E. Williams;J. Walker
METHODS The preparation was made by the method described by Knowlton & Starling (1912). Two dogs were used for each experiment. Thefirst was anaesthetized with ether and its blood was collected from the carotid artery. The second was also anaesthetized with ether, and some blood was withdrawn and added to the blood of the first, to form a reservoir for the experiment. The preparation of the heart-lung in the second dog then proceeded under chloralose (0.07 g/kg), but, since the reservoir blood used during the experiment had been exposed only to ether (which was soon removed in the expired air), the final concentration of anaesthetic consisted of probably less than 70 mg chloralose/l. blood. The venous reservoir, which was immersed in a constant temperature bath, contained an overflow tube above which the level of blood could not rise. The overflow tube led the excess blood to a second reservoir placed below the first; it was then returned to the top reservoir by a Dale-Schuster (1928) pump. Thus a constant venous pressure was ensured. The blood was prevented from clotting with heparin (Boots) 5000 units/l. The temperature in the venous cannula was recorded at 5 min intervals throughout each experiment, and the heating of the bath was adjusted to keep it constant.Electrocardiograms (ecg) were taken on a Cossor machine, model 1314, which employs a Kelvin-Hughes pen writing directly on Teledeltos paper. The leads were attached to the right and left forelegs and the left hindleg after removal ofsome skin. The auricles were made to beat at any required frequency by means ofa square-wave stimulator offairly conventional design. Constant current pulses of duration 0 9 msec and strength 1 mA were employed. The stimulator had two independent channels, each variable with respect to frequency, delay, duration and strength. It