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1 Cats were anaesthetized with pentobarbitone sodium and atropinized peripherally by intravenous injection of atropine methyl nitrate; the effect was examined of topical bilateral application of dyflos to the ventral surface of the medulla oblongata at a region lateral to the pyramids and caudal to the trapezoid bodies. Dyflos was applied by means of perspex rings; the volume of fluid placed in each ring was 10 μl.
2 The topical application of dyflos (1-20 mg/ml) produced a fall in arterial blood pressure without changes in heart rate and, in experiments without artificial ventilation, tachypnoea with dissociation of thoracic and abdominal respiration.
3 Atropine methyl nitrate (50 mg/ml) applied topically in the same way as dyflos, prevented or abolished its vasodepressor effect.
4 The two reactivators of acetylcholinesterase, obidoxime (100-200 mg/ml) and pralidoxime mesylate (100-200 mg/ml), applied topically in the same way as dyflos, abolished its vasodepressor effect. The reactivator compound 30 (100 mg/ml), also a pyridinium aldoxime, did not have this effect.
5 Obidoxime and pralidoxime mesylate also reversed the vasodepression produced by carbachol applied to the ventral surface of the brain stem but not the vasodepression produced by glycine similarly applied.
6 The problem is discussed as to whether the reversal of the dyflos and carbachol-induced vasodepression by obidoxime and pralidoxime is due to acetylcholinesterase reactivation by dephosphorylation and decarbamylation respectively, to a central atropine-like action of these compounds or to a combination of both.
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