Role of Alpha-2 Adrenoceptors in Regulation of Giant Migrating Contractions and Defecation in Conscious Dogs

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (9) ◽  
pp. 2204-2210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Munenori Nagao ◽  
Chikashi Shibata ◽  
Yuji Funayama ◽  
Kouhei Fukushima ◽  
Ken­ichi Takahashi ◽  
...  
Diabetes ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 749-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. T. Frizzell ◽  
G. K. Hendrick ◽  
D. W. Biggers ◽  
D. B. Lacy ◽  
D. P. Donahue ◽  
...  

Digestion ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 268-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.J. Konturek ◽  
J. Bilski ◽  
J. Tasler ◽  
J.W. Konturek ◽  
W. Bielański ◽  
...  

1987 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-235
Author(s):  
Stanislaw J. Konturek ◽  
JanW Konturek ◽  
Cornelis B. Lamers ◽  
Janine Tasler ◽  
Jan Bilski

1991 ◽  
Vol 260 (4) ◽  
pp. G653-G657 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Malbert ◽  
Y. Ruckebusch

Antroduodenal pressure events were measured simultaneously with transpyloric flow, in conscious dogs, to evaluate the role of mechanical factors modulating this flow. The relationships between pressure and flow across the gastroduodenal junction were never linear. During the interdigestive state, terminal antral contraction occurred 0.9 +/- 0.29 s after the onset of the gush of gastric contents. Hence, the highest flow rate occurred during the period of lowest resistance. After a meal, terminal antral contraction began 3.3 +/- 0.87 s before the flow of chyme, and resistance rose simultaneously with flow rate. The antroduodenal resistance was 10 times higher than during the interdigestive state (8.33 +/- 1.56 vs. 0.73 +/- 0.34 mmHg.ml-1.s). The pyloroduodenal resistance was always lower than the antropyloric one. It is concluded that, because of the temporal relationship between motor events and flow, pure resistive behavior of the junction occurred only after a meal.


1978 ◽  
Vol 234 (2) ◽  
pp. H152-H156
Author(s):  
G. S. Geis ◽  
G. Barratt ◽  
R. D. Wurster

Resting cardiovascular parameters and the responses to bilateral carotid occlusions (BCO) were monitored in pentobarbital-anesthetized and conscious dogs before and after placing lesions in the dorsolateral funiculi at C7-C8 and after spinal transections at C7. Pre- and postlesion blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) responses to exercise were also monitored. The lesions significantly attenuated the responses to BCO and decreased resting BP in anesthetized dogs. Yet neither resting HR in anesthetized or conscious dogs nor the resting BP in conscious dogs was affected by the lesions. Subsequent spinal transections significantly decreased resting HR and BP and the responses to BCO but did not affect the BP response to BCO in anesthetized dogs as compared with corresponding postlesion parameters. BP responses to exercise were significantly attenuated by the lesions, but HR responses were not affected. Since stimulation and BP studies indicated that the descending pressor pathway had been ablated, the data suggest that the pathway mediates BP and HR responses to BCO in pentobarbital-anesthetized and conscious dogs. It does not maintain resting HR in anesthetized or conscious animals, and the resting BP in conscious dogs. This pathway is important for BP responses to exercise but is not necessary for HR responses. Finally, other spinal pathways are involved in cardiovascular control.


1994 ◽  
Vol 267 (2) ◽  
pp. H605-H613 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Shen ◽  
M. Ochoa ◽  
X. Xu ◽  
J. Wang ◽  
T. H. Hintze

The role of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) in parasympathetic coronary vasodilation following carotid chemoreflex activation induced by nicotine in conscious dogs and stimulation of the vagus nerve in anesthetized dogs was studied. Injection of nicotine (11 +/- 4 micrograms) into the carotid artery increased coronary blood flow (CBF) by 126 +/- 16% from 28 +/- 3 ml/min and reduced late diastolic coronary resistance (LDCR) by 43 +/- 4% from 3.58 +/- 0.52 mmHg.ml-1.min, accompanied by a significant increase in mean arterial pressure and a decrease in heart rate (all P < 0.01). Pacing and propranolol did not change the coronary vascular response to chemoreflex activation. There were still increases in CBF by 113 +/- 17% from 29 +/- 3 ml/min and decreases in LDCR by 41 +/- 5% from 3.13 +/- 0.52 mmHg.ml-1.min (all P < 0.01). After infusion of N omega-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA) (30 mg/kg), the increase in CBF following chemoreflex activation was only 23 +/- 3% from 37 +/- 3 ml/min, and the fall in LDCR was 19 +/- 3% from 3.09 +/- 0.51 mmHg.ml-1.min. Stimulation of the vagus nerve showed a relationship between stimulation frequency and coronary vasodilation that was significantly inhibited by L-NNA. Thus EDRF plays an important role in mediating parasympathetic coronary vasodilation during chemoreflex activation and perhaps during many reflexes that cause vagal cholinergic vasodilation in the heart.


2000 ◽  
Vol 278 (2) ◽  
pp. R469-R475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry N. Thrasher ◽  
Hong-Gen Chen ◽  
Lanny C. Keil

We studied the role of cardiac and arterial baroreceptors in the reflex control of arginine vasopressin (AVP) and renin secretion during graded hypotension in conscious dogs. The dogs were prepared with Silastic cuffs on the thoracic inferior vena cava and catheters in the pericardial space. Each experiment consisted of a control period followed by four periods of inferior vena caval constriction, during which mean arterial pressure (MAP) was reduced in increments of ∼10 mmHg. The hormonal responses were measured in five dogs under four treatment conditions: 1) intact, 2) acute cardiac denervation (CD) by intrapericardial infusion of procaine, 3) after sinoaortic denervation (SAD), and 4) during combined SAD+CD. The individual slopes relating MAP to plasma AVP and plasma renin activity (PRA) were used to compare the treatment effects using a 2 × 2 factorial analysis. There was a significant ( P < 0.01) effect of SAD on the slope relating plasma AVP to MAP but no effect of CD and no SAD × CD interaction. In contrast, the slope relating PRA and MAP was increased ( P < 0.05) by SAD but was not affected by CD. These results support the hypothesis that stimulation of AVP secretion in response to graded hypotension is primarily driven by unloading arterial baroreceptors in the dog.


1993 ◽  
Vol 264 (2) ◽  
pp. R369-R375 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Miki ◽  
Y. Hayashida ◽  
K. Shiraki

The role of cardiac-renal-neural reflex in the natriuresis induced by left atrial balloon inflation was investigated in conscious dogs. Female mongrel dogs were assigned randomly to 1) sham-operated (n = 8), 2) cardiac-denervated (n = 6), and 3) renal-denervated (n = 8) groups. The dogs were chronically instrumented with a bipolar stainless steel wire electrode for measurement of renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA). Balloon inflation induced a step increase in left atrial pressure (Pla) by 7.7 +/- 1.7 mmHg, a step decrease in RSNA (-66.6 +/- 5.5%), and concomitant increases in urine flow (441 +/- 142%), osmolal excretion (60 +/- 12%), and sodium excretion (300 +/- 69%) in sham-operated dogs. Renal denervation abolished the diuresis and natriuresis during balloon inflation. Chronic cardiac denervation abolished also the diuresis and natriuresis in the face of a similar increase in Pla. RSNA did not change significantly throughout the experimental period in cardiac-denervated dogs. It is concluded that a sustained reduction of RSNA originating from left atrial mechanoreceptors plays a major role in the natriuresis during left atrial distension in conscious dogs.


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