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. 1971 Mar;41(3):454–461. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1971.tb08043.x

Central autonomic effects of prostaglandin F2α on the cardiovascular system of the dog

Helen A Lavery, R D Lowe, G C Scroop
PMCID: PMC1702872  PMID: 4995931

Abstract

1. Prostaglandin F2α infused into the vertebral artery of the anaesthetized greyhound in doses which had no effect when given intravenously ((8-64 ng/kg)/min) caused an increase in blood pressure and heart rate.

2. This response was not significantly altered by β-adrenoceptor blockade with propranolol (10 mg i.v.) or by cervical cord section at C4-6.

3. The tachycardia was abolished and the pressor response greatly reduced by vagotomy or atropine (250 μg/kg i.v.).

4. The pressor response which remained after vagotomy was abolished by subsequent sympathetic blockade with bethanidine (2-3 mg/kg i.v.) or bretylium (10 mg/kg i.v.).

5. In contrast to the effects of propranolol or cervical cord section bethanidine (4-5 mg/kg i.v.) or bretylium (10 mg/kg i.v.) significantly reduced blood pressure and heart rate responses to intravertebral prostaglandin F2α. This result suggests that bethanidine and bretylium have some central actions.

6. It is concluded that the cardiovascular effects of intravertebral infusions of prostaglandin F2α are mediated by the autonomic nervous system and that the preferential pathway is withdrawal of vagal tone to the heart.

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