Medial prefrontal cortical lesions and baroreceptor heart rate reflex sensitivity in the spontaneously hypertensive rat
作者:
Anthony Verberne,
Stephen Lewis,
Bevyn Jarrott,
William Louis,
期刊:
Journal of Hypertension
(OVID Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 6,
issue 2
页码: 123-128
ISSN:0263-6352
年代: 1988
出版商: OVID
关键词: Medial prefrontal cortex,;baroreceptor reflex,;excitotoxic lesions,;spontaneously hypertensive rat.
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Previous investigations have shown that an excitotoxic lesion of the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) in normotensive Sprague-Dawley rats results in a reduction in the sensitivity of the baroreceptor heart rate reflex. The aim of this study was to examine the importance of the MPFC in regulation of the heart rate reflex in conscious, unrestrained spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). The MPFC was lesioned by bilateral microinfusions of the excitotoxin N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA). Baroreceptor heart rate reflex testing was performed by measuring reflex heart rate changes in response to blood pressure alterations induced by nitroprusside and phenylephrine with subsequent computerized sigmoidal curve-fitting of the data. Lesion of the MPFC did not significantly alter resting, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate or baro-reflex parameters (gain, thresholds, range or plateaus). These observations suggest that the putative descending facilitatory influence from the MPFC to brainstem areas, involved in baroreceptor reflex regulation observed in normotensive rats, may be defective in SHR.
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