The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 69, 421-428, Copyright © 1975 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Neurogenic influences on the coronary vascular response to ischemia in the awake dog
RJ Bache, FR Cobb, PA Ebert and JC Greenfield
The influence of the nervous system on the response of the coronary vessels
to ischemia was evaluated by observing the reactive hyperemia subsequent to
a 10 second occlusion of the left circumflex coronary artery in 19 awake
dogs. Sympathectomy produced by pretreatment with 6- hydroxydopamine,
chronic total surgical cardiac denervation, beta- adrenergic blockade with
propranolol, and alpha blockade with phentolamine did not significantly
after the reactive hyperemic response. Thus cardiac denervation did not
impair the ability of the coronary vasculature to respond to a brief
ischemic stimulus.