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J Vasku

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PubMed1984

Cardiac adrenergic innervation after instrumentation of the coronary artery in dog.

A fine methacrylate ring (not constricting the artery) was placed around the ramus interventricularis anterior (RIA) of the left coronary artery in dogs. By means of Falck's histochemical technique an extensive degeneration of the vasomotor and cardiomotor adrenergic innervation of ventricles was detected 14 days after the procedure. The innervation of atria remained intact. The surgical intervention as well as the scarring process (which compressed the conducting parts of axons composing the perivascular nerves) induced the degeneration. The results have important implications for experiments with instrumented arteries.

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PubMed1978

Adrenergic innervation of the coronary arteries and the myocardium.

The monoaminergic innervation of the coronary vessels and myocardium in the dog was studied by means of the histochemical fluorescence method. The distribution of monoaminergic terminals in the arterial wall depends on the diameter of the artery. In large arteries, the terminals are regularly distributed around the entire circumference, the fibres being situated between the elastic lamellae of the adventitia. The terminals within the media could not be detected. In small arteries, the sympathetic ground plexus aggregates in two parallel strands, the artery being between them. In arterioles, two thick fibres only accompany the vellel. The myocardium is innervated by means of a three-dimensional sympathetic ground plexus distributed between the myocardial cells independently of vessels. No difference in density of innervation was found between the right and left heart. The point-counting method, on the other hand, has revealed that the density of innervation in the left auricle is nearly twice as dense as in the left ventricle. The terminals innervating the myocardium are markedly thinner than the fibres innervating the arteries. Two-dimensional plexuses innervate the epicardium, endocardium and valves.

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Reperfusion of coronary arteries after temporary occlusion in dogs.

The influence of previous pharmacotherapy or intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (with thiamine infusion) on the effectiveness of reperfusion of the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery after 150 minutes of occlusion has been studied in dogs. The infarct size was determined by morphometric method 20 hours after the onset of ischaemia. Reperfusion 150 minutes after the occlusion of the LAD coronary artery resulted in a smaller infarct; however, no protective effect from pharmacological or mechanical heart support during the period of ischaemia was observed.

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Suppression of the progress of necrosis after coronary artery ligation in the dog by pharmacologic interventions.

A study was carried out of a therapy supporting the anaerobic glycolysis and coronary perfusion of ischemic myocardium and preserving its potassium and magnesium contents, which consisted in combined administration of hyaluronidase, glucose, insulin, Tris, methoxamine, and potassium and magnesium aspartate. The drugs were administered to Beagle dogs between 30 minutes and 20 hours after the ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery. The size of infarction was determined by the Nachlas method, which is based on the detection of activities of dehydrogenases in heart slices. Treated animals showed a reduced infarction size (p less than 0.001). The evidence of the favourable effect of the therapy used was brought also by hemodynamic measurements. The heart rate was slower (p less than 0.02) and the mean arterial blood pressure was higher (p less than 0.001) in treated animals than in control ones (as evaluated at the end of the experimental period). Significant correlation between the infarction size and the heart rate on the one hand and the mean arterial pressure on the other hand was found (r = 0.59, p less than 0.01; r=--0.47, p less than 0.05, respectively).

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