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. 1983 Apr;337:563–573. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1983.sp014642

Effects of acute changes in blood volume on the carotid sinus baroreceptor reflex in conscious rabbits.

I B Faris, G G Jamieson, J Ludbrook
PMCID: PMC1199125  PMID: 6875947

Abstract

The control of blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac output and systemic vascular resistance by the carotid sinus baroreceptor reflex was studied in six conscious rabbits during states of acute hypervolaemia and acute hypovolaemia. These states were produced by infusing blood equal to 20% and 40%, and withdrawing blood equal to 20% and 35%, of the initial blood volume. The properties of the reflex were characterized by creating sinusoidal pressure changes across the wall of the carotid sinus at a frequency of 0.01 Hz and amplitudes of 54 and 83 mmHg. From the effects of the lower-amplitude stimulus the dynamic gain of the reflex was calculated for blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac output and systemic vascular resistance. The higher-amplitude stimulus was used to determine the near maximal responses of the circulatory variables to changes in carotid sinus transmural pressure. The gain for systemic vascular resistance was reduced by hypervolaemia, and increased by 20% hypovolaemia. The gains for heart rate and blood pressure were not affected by hypervolaemia or by 20% hypovolaemia. 35% hypovolaemia reduced the gain for heart rate, but the resting value was close to the upper limit of the reflex response. It also reduced the gain for cardiac output and blood pressure, and the increase in gain for systemic vascular resistance that had been caused by 20% hypovolaemia was not sustained.

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