scholarly journals A Critique on Baroreceptor and their Effective Reflex Action on Compartmental Cardiovascular Modeling in Regulating Hemodynamic Parameters

Baroreceptor is the feedback unit present in the living beings which acts as a sensor that is located in the walls of blood vessels. This sensor senses the deformation in the blood vessels which causes change in arterial blood pressure and regulates it via Central Nervous System (CNS) and the information are autonomic reflexes that has a great influence on circulatory system elements such as peripheral systemic resistance (Rpsym), contractility of the ventricles (Emax), unstressed volume of the ventricles (Vus_ven) and heart rate (HR). The dynamic behaviour of the baroreceptor is modeled and substantiated by applying the negative feedback mechanism. A detailed modeling and simulation study is presented considering various testing conditions in regulating the circulatory system elements which oversees the Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) in cardiovascular system. The Total Artificial Cardiovascular model (TAH-CVS) is also developed using pressure, volume and flow related differential equations. Based on the testing conducted under various conditions, the feedback-mechanism of the baroreceptor model is combined with the continuous TAH-CVS closed loop model to validate the effectiveness of the baroreceptor model. The simulation results of TAH-CVS model at initial conditions are compared with the TAH-CVS model with baroreceptor.

1994 ◽  
Vol 266 (2) ◽  
pp. H393-H398 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. Faraci ◽  
D. Kinzenbaw ◽  
D. D. Heistad

Exogenous vasopressin decreases blood flow to the choroid plexus and production of cerebrospinal fluid. Some studies indicate that hypoxia and increases in intracranial pressure (ICP) produce increases in circulating vasopressin. We examined the hypothesis that endogenous release of vasopressin decreases blood flow to the choroid plexus during hypoxia and increased ICP. Blood flow to the choroid plexus was measured in anesthetized rabbits using microspheres. Hypoxia increased cerebral blood flow more than twofold but had little effect on blood flow to the choroid plexus. In contrast, hypoxia produced a marked increase in blood flow to the choroid plexus in the presence of a vasopressin V1-antagonist, [d(CH2)5Tyr(Me)]AVP. During intracranial hypertension, blood flow to the choroid plexus decreased from 409 +/- 42 to 295 +/- 25 ml.min-1 x 100 g-1 (means +/- SE; P < 0.05 vs. control) when ICP was increased from 1 to 40 mmHg. The vasopressin antagonist inhibited the decrease in blood flow to the choroid plexus in response to increased ICP. Thus release of vasopressin during hypoxia and increased ICP have a constrictor effect on blood vessels of the choroid plexus. Plasma levels of vasopressin increased minimally during hypoxia and increased ICP, which suggests that sources of vasopressin other than plasma affect blood vessels of the choroid plexus. We propose that endogenous vasopressin may play a protective role during hypoxia and intracranial hypertension by a negative feedback mechanism to reduce blood flow to the choroid plexus.


Author(s):  
S. Jalalah ◽  
K. Kovacs ◽  
E. Horvath

Lactotrophs, as many other endocrine cells, change their morphology in response to factors influencing their secretory activity. Secretion of prolactin (PRL) from lactotrophs, like that of other anterior pituitary hormones, is under the control of the hypothalamus. Unlike most anterior pituitary hormones, PRL has no apparent target gland which could modulate the endocrine activity of lactotrophs. It is generally agreed that PRL regulates its own release from lactotrophs via the short loop negative feedback mechanism exerted at the level of the hypothalamus or the pituitary. Accordingly, ultrastructural morphology of lactotrophs is not constant; it is changing in response to high PRL levels showing signs of suppressed hormone synthesis and secretion.By transmission electron microscopy and morphometry, we have studied the morphology of lactotrophs in nontumorous (NT) portions of 7 human pituitaries containing PRL-secreting adenoma; these lactotrophs were exposed to abnormally high PRL levels.


To investigate the normal anatomical distribution of the arterial blood supply, venous drainage and innervation on both the dorsal and plantar aspects of pes region including the level of tarsal joint due to its clinical importance with a little data available. Methods: Ten hind paws of five adult apparently healthy domestic dogs of both sexes; six paws injected, through blood vessels with colored latex neoprene for anatomical dissection and the other four paws injected a contrast mixture of red lead oxide and turpentine oil for the radiographic investigation of blood vessels. In addition to five live dogs used to apply the distal limb local anesthesia with the aid of Needle-Guided Ultrasonography. Results: This investigation revealed that the dorsal and plantar aspects of dog pes region supplied by superficial and deep sets of arteries, veins and nerves. The three dorsal metatarsal arteries originated from the arcuate artery. The medial tarsal vein forming characteristic venous arcades. The 3rd plantar metatarsal artery divided into two axial arteries while the 2nd and 4th continued axially without division. The plantar common digital and metatarsal nerves II, III, IV communicated to give origins of the axial and abaxial plantar proper digital nerves except the abaxials of the 2nd and 5th digits which supplied by a branch from medial plantar nerve and lateral plantar nerve respectively. Conclusion: There were little differences between dogs and other carnivores in vascularization of hind paw with the recommendation of using Needle-Guided Ultrasonography in the distal limb local anesthesia to avoid vascular puncture or damage.


Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1887
Author(s):  
Inbal Dagan ◽  
Raz Palty

Calcium (Ca2+) signaling plays a dichotomous role in cellular biology, controlling cell survival and proliferation on the one hand and cellular toxicity and cell death on the other. Store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE) by CRAC channels represents a major pathway for Ca2+ entry in non-excitable cells. The CRAC channel has two key components, the endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ sensor stromal interaction molecule (STIM) and the plasma-membrane Ca2+ channel Orai. Physical coupling between STIM and Orai opens the CRAC channel and the resulting Ca2+ flux is regulated by a negative feedback mechanism of slow Ca2+ dependent inactivation (SCDI). The identification of the SOCE-associated regulatory factor (SARAF) and investigations of its role in SCDI have led to new functional and molecular insights into how SOCE is controlled. In this review, we provide an overview of the functional and molecular mechanisms underlying SCDI and discuss how the interaction between SARAF, STIM1, and Orai1 shapes Ca2+ signaling in cells.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (21) ◽  
pp. eaaz4707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Tapia-Rojo ◽  
Alvaro Alonso-Caballero ◽  
Julio M. Fernandez

Vinculin binds unfolded talin domains in focal adhesions, which recruits actin filaments to reinforce the mechanical coupling of this organelle. However, it remains unknown how this interaction is regulated and its impact on the force transmission properties of this mechanotransduction pathway. Here, we use magnetic tweezers to measure the interaction between vinculin head and the talin R3 domain under physiological forces. For the first time, we resolve individual binding events as a short contraction of the unfolded talin polypeptide caused by the reformation of the vinculin-binding site helices, which dictates a biphasic mechanism that regulates this interaction. Force favors vinculin binding by unfolding talin and exposing the vinculin-binding sites; however, the coil-to-helix contraction introduces an energy penalty that increases with force, defining an optimal binding regime. This mechanism implies that the talin-vinculin-actin association could operate as a negative feedback mechanism to stabilize force on focal adhesions.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Jean-Bernard Chatelain ◽  
Kirsten Ralf

This paper compares different implementations of monetary policy in a new-Keynesian setting. We can show that a shift from Ramsey optimal policy under short-term commitment (based on a negative feedback mechanism) to a Taylor rule (based on a positive feedback mechanism) corresponds to a Hopf bifurcation with opposite policy advice and a change of the dynamic properties. This bifurcation occurs because of the ad hoc assumption that interest rate is a forward-looking variable when policy targets (inflation and output gap) are forward-looking variables in the new-Keynesian theory.


2008 ◽  
Vol 457 (6) ◽  
pp. 1351-1360 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Düfer ◽  
D. Haspel ◽  
P. Krippeit-Drews ◽  
L. Aguilar-Bryan ◽  
J. Bryan ◽  
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2000 ◽  
Vol 203 (11) ◽  
pp. 1659-1669 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Schwerte ◽  
B. Pelster

The analysis of perfusion parameters using the frame-to-frame technique and the observation of small blood vessels in transparent animals using video microscopy can be tedious and very difficult because of the poor contrast of the images. Injection of a fluorescent probe (fluorescein isothiocynate, FITC) bound to a high-molecular-mass dextran improved the visibility of blood vessels, but the gray-scale histogram showed blurring at the edges of the vessels. Furthermore, injection of the fluorescent probe into the ventricle of small zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos (body mass approximately 1 mg) often resulted in reduced cardiac activity. Digital motion analysis, however, proved to be a very effective tool for analysing the shape and performance of the circulatory system in transparent animals and tissues. By subtracting the two fields of a video frame (the odd and the even frame), any movement that occurred within the 20 ms necessary for the acquisition of one field could be visualised. The length of the shifting vector generated by this subtraction, represented a direct measure of the velocity of a moving particle, i.e. an erythrocyte in the vascular system. By accumulating shifting vectors generated from several consecutive video frames, a complete trace of the routes over which erythrocytes moved could be obtained. Thus, a cast of the vascular system, except for those tiny vessels that are not entered by erythrocytes, could be obtained. Because the gray-scale value of any given pixel or any given group of pixels increased with the number of erythrocytes passing it, digital motion analysis could also be used to visualise the distribution of blood cells in transparent tissues. This method was used to describe the development of the peripheral vascular system in zebrafish larvae up to 8 days post-fertilisation. At this stage, food intake resulted in a clear redistribution of blood between muscle tissue and the gut, and alpha-adrenergic control of peripheral blood flow was established.


2001 ◽  
Vol 204 (22) ◽  
pp. 3963-3971 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. F. Perry ◽  
J. E. McKendry

SUMMARYFish breathing hypercarbic water encounter externally elevated PCO2 and proton levels ([H+]) and experience an associated internal respiratory acidosis, an elevation of blood PCO2 and [H+]. The objective of the present study was to assess the potential relative contributions of CO2versus H+ in promoting the cardiorespiratory responses of dogfish (Squalus acanthias) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) to hypercarbia and to evaluate the relative contributions of externally versus internally oriented receptors in dogfish.In dogfish, the preferential stimulation of externally oriented branchial chemoreceptors using bolus injections (50 ml kg–1) of CO2-enriched (4 % CO2) sea water into the buccal cavity caused marked cardiorespiratory responses including bradycardia (–4.1±0.9 min–1), a reduction in cardiac output (–3.2±0.6 ml min–1 kg–1), an increase in systemic vascular resistance (+0.3±0.2 mmHg ml min–1 kg–1), arterial hypotension (–1.6±0.2 mmHg) and an increase in breathing amplitude (+0.3±0.09 mmHg) (means ± s.e.m., N=9–11). Similar injections of CO2-free sea water acidified to the corresponding pH of the hypercarbic water (pH 6.3) did not significantly affect any of the measured cardiorespiratory variables (when compared with control injections). To preferentially stimulate putative internal CO2/H+ chemoreceptors, hypercarbic saline (4 % CO2) was injected (2 ml kg–1) into the caudal vein. Apart from an increase in arterial blood pressure caused by volume loading, internally injected CO2 was without effect on any measured variable.In salmon, injection of hypercarbic water into the buccal cavity caused a bradycardia (–13.9±3.8 min–1), a decrease in cardiac output (–5.3±1.2 ml min–1 kg–1), an increase in systemic resistance (0.33±0.08 mmHg ml min–1 kg–1) and increases in breathing frequency (9.7±2.2 min–1) and amplitude (1.2±0.2 mmHg) (means ± s.e.m., N=8–12). Apart from a small increase in breathing amplitude (0.4±0.1 mmHg), these cardiorespiratory responses were not observed after injection of acidified water.These results demonstrate that, in dogfish and salmon, the external chemoreceptors linked to the initiation of cardiorespiratory responses during hypercarbia are predominantly stimulated by the increase in water PCO2 rather than by the accompanying decrease in water pH. Furthermore, in dogfish, the cardiorespiratory responses to hypercarbia are probably exclusively derived from the stimulation of external CO2 chemoreceptors, with no apparent contribution from internally oriented receptors.


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