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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 277: R682-R689, 1999;
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Vol. 277, Issue 3, R682-R689, September 1999

Functional roles played by the sympathetic supply to lip blood vessels in the cat

Hiroshi Izumi

Department of Orofacial Functions, Tohoku University School of Dentistry, Sendai 980-8575, Japan

In the anesthetized cat we used laser-Doppler flowmetry to investigate the part played by cervical superior sympathetic trunk (CST) fibers in the control of blood vessels in an orofacial area (the lower lip). The blood flow increase (antidromic vasodilatation) elicited by inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) stimulation was not affected by ongoing repetitive CST stimulation over the frequency range examined (0.2-10 Hz), although reflex parasympathetic vasodilatation was attenuated. The vasoconstrictor responses elicited by IAN stimulation in some preparations were reduced in a frequency-dependent manner (at 0.2-1 Hz) during ongoing CST stimulation (and replaced by vasodilator responses). The vasoconstrictor response evoked directly by brief CST stimulation was attenuated, but not transformed to a vasodilator response, by ongoing CST stimulation. Thus in the cat lower lip 1) sympathetic stimulation attenuated one type of vasodilator response (parasympathetic-mediated vasodilatation), but not another (antidromic vasodilatation), and 2) ongoing sympathetic (CST) stimulation at low frequencies (<1 Hz) prevented further sympathetic-mediated vasoconstriction.

parasympathetic vasodilatation; antidromic vasodilatation; orofacial area; vasoresponse


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