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. 1977 Mar;265(3):781–793. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1977.sp011743

The contribution of alterations in cardiac output to changes in arterial pressure reflexly evoked from the carotid sinus in the rabbit.

P W Humphreys, N Joels
PMCID: PMC1307847  PMID: 856989

Abstract

1. The reflex cardiovascular effects of changes in pressure within the vascularly isolated carotid sinus were examined in seventeen anaesthetized rabbits. The opposite sinus was denervated and both aortic nerves were divided, 2. Comparison of the mean values at sinus pressures of 40 and 200 mmHg showed a large reduction in systemic arterial pressure from 126 to 58 mmHg and a moderate reduction in heart rate, from 287 to 253 beats min-1. Cardiac output, measured by thermal dilution, showed only a small change, a fall from 160 to 148 ml. min-1 kg-1. 3. By contrast with this reduction in cardiac output of just over 7%, total peripheral resistance, derived by dividing mean arterial pressure by cardiac output, was halved, falling from 0-48 to 0-41 mmHg ml.-1 min kg. 4. Thus in the anaesthetized rabbit changes in cardiac output make only a small contribution to the changes in systemic pressure evoked by alterations in carotid sinus pressure. Changes in total peripheral resistance are principally responsible for the effect on systemic pressure. 5. Though the changes in output of the heart were small, there were considerable changes in the work done by the left ventricle which was approximately halved when carotid sinus pressure was raised from 40 to 200 mmHg.

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