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O V Sergeeva

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Chronodromotropic coordination in cats.

The coordinated nervous influences on HR and atrioventricular conduction velocity (chronodromotropic coordination) were examined in wakeful cats. The wave structure and reflex reactions of RR and atrioventricular (AV) intervals to stress noise stimulation were studied under normal conditions and during the action of blockers of peripheral receptors in ANS. Variations of both intervals had similar wave structure (power spectrum) and similar reactions to noise stimulus. Atropine pronouncedly decreased all components of the spectra in the high, low, and very low frequency ranges. It eliminated the reactions of both intervals to noise stimulation. In RR intervals, the high-frequency spectrum component decreased more strongly than the low-frequency ones. By contrast, in AV intervals atropine most greatly decreased the very-low-spectrum component, while the high frequency was decreased less of all. Propranolol produced no effect on the response to noise. It did not decrease components of the wave structure in both intervals, except for the very-low-frequency peak of AV interval. The nervous chronotropic and dromotropic influences were largely coordinated, although they were not obligatorily parallel.

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Effect of pentobarbital on spectral characteristics and phase ratios of wave oscillations of cardiac contraction period and time of atrioventricular conduction in cats.

Effects of pentobarbital on spectral characteristics and phase ratios of wave oscillations of the cardiac contraction period (RR interval) and time of atrioventricular conduction (AV interval) were studied in experiments of cats. Pentobarbital moderately reduced the mean values of both intervals and significantly reduced their standard deviations and spectral powers in all frequency bands (high-frequency, low-frequency, and very low-frequency). Pentobarbital treatment led to deceleration of breathing, the frequency range of respiratory oscillations of RR and AV intervals shifted in some cases from high to low frequencies; evaluation of spectral power in the intermittent band corresponding to respiration frequency (instead of standard fixed high-frequency band) showed that pentobarbital suppressed the respiratory oscillations in these bands. Pentobarbital induced inversion of phase ratio between respiratory oscillations of RR and AV intervals: oscillations of both intervals before pentobarbital coincided by phase, while after pentobarbital injection they were in antiphase. The mechanisms of the latter phenomenon deserve further investigation.

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Role of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems in heart rate regulation in cats.

The effects of atropine and beta-adrenoceptor blockers on mean HR, wave structure of the cardiac rhythm, and chronotropic reaction to noise stress were examined in cats. Atropine (0.5 mg/kg) increased the mean HR and significantly decreased the spectrum power of HF, LF, and VLF oscillations. The decrease in HF power was most pronounced, which enhanced LF/HF ratio. Propranolol (0.5 mg/kg) decreased the mean HR and slightly increased the power of HF, LF, and VLF oscillations. Atenolol (2 mg/kg) exerted similar but more pronounced effects. beta-Adrenoceptor blockers increased HF power to a greater extent than LF and VLF power, which led to a decrease in LF/HF ratio. Atropine markedly decreased the chronotropic reaction to stress. beta-Adrenoceptor blockers produced no effect on the amplitude of this reaction, but accelerated restoration of initial HR. It is established that the changes in power spectrum of HR and the phase reflex reactions in cats are mediated by parasympathetic influences; the sympathetic system is involved only in the control of mean HR, probably in response to the level of animal activity. The changes in LF/HF ratio during blockade of sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are caused by opposite influences of these systems on HF oscillations, but not by hypothetic "sympathetic" and "parasympathetic" nature of LF and HF oscillations of the heart rhythm.

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Chronotropic and dromotropic components of cardiac reflexes in rabbits.

The relationships between dromotropic and chronotropic components of five reflexes were studied in rabbits: intravenous and intraarterial blood injections, occlusion of the carotid arteries, Aschner maneuver, and stimulation of depressors. All these stimuli reduced heart rate (except carotid artery occlusion, which induced approximately equal number of tachi- and bradycardic responses). The former three stimuli also reduced atrioventricular (AV) conduction velocity, the changes in these two parameters were proportional. Changes in heart rate induced by Aschner maneuver were more pronounced than changes in AV conduction. Stimulation of depressor induced co-directed shifts in these parameters during the first seconds, but then AV conduction increased, while heart rate remained decreased; bradycardia and AV acceleration persisted for long time after termination of stimulation. Our findings attest to independent regulation of heart rate and AV conduction velocity and to the absence of a strict relationship between these two parameters.

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