AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 263, Issue 3 639-R646, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Arterial pressure lability and renal sympathetic nerve activity are dissociated in SAD rats

C. Barres, S. J. Lewis, H. J. Jacob and M. J. Brody
Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the sympathetic nervous system drives the high variability of arterial pressure (AP) observed after sinoaortic denervation (SAD) in rats. One or fourteen days after SAD, rats were instrumented chronically to record mean AP (MAP), heart rate (HR), and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) in the conscious unrestrained state. Acute SAD increased MAP, HR, RSNA, and variability of MAP and decreased variability of both HR and RSNA. In rats with chronic SAD, variability of MAP remained high, whereas MAP, HR, RSNA, and variability of HR and RSNA returned to normal levels. Correlation analysis showed that, in sham-operated rats, AP and RSNA were negatively correlated in 90% of cases. In contrast, rats with both acute and chronic SAD exhibited only 30% negative and 25% positive correlations. These results indicate that 1) low AP variability in intact rats results from baroreflex-mediated inversely related fluctuations in RSNA and HR and 2) high variability of AP after acute and chronic SAD is correlated infrequently with RSNA. Because lability is reduced by interventions that block the sympathetic nervous system, we conclude that lability of AP associated with SAD appears to be mediated largely by a permissive role of sympathetic activity.

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