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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 268: R1069-R1077, 1995;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 268, Issue 4 1069-R1077, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of loading right atrial and ventricular receptors on stimulated AVP, ACTH, and renin secretion in awake dogs

L. J. Andersen, J. L. Andersen, T. N. Thrasher, L. C. Keil and D. J. Ramsay
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA.

The goal of this study was to test the hypothesis that increasing or decreasing the load on baroreceptors in the right heart influenced the secretion of arginine vasopressin (AVP), adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), and renin during a state of sustained arterial hypotension. The hypothesis was tested in chronically instrumented conscious dogs prepared with inflatable cuffs around the pulmonary artery (PA) and the thoracic inferior vena cava (IVC). In one protocol (n = 5), mean arterial pressure was reduced 10 or 20% below control by constriction of the PA, a maneuver that caused a fall in left atrial pressure (LAP) and an increase in right atrial pressure (RAP). Plasma AVP, ACTH, atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), and plasma renin activity (PRA) all increased (P < 0.05) in response to constriction of the PA. Reducing RAP to control by constriction of the IVC during maintained constriction of the PA had no effect on MAP, LAP, plasma AVP, ACTH, or PRA, but plasma ANP fell significantly. In a separate protocol (n = 4), constriction of the IVC was used to reduce MAP 10 or 20% below control, and this led to significant decreases in both LAP and RAP and increases in plasma AVP, ACTH, and PRA. RAP was then increased above control by constriction of the PA without altering either MAP or LAP. Raising RAP from a level that was 6.3 +/- 1.3 mmHg below control to 3.5 +/- 1.0 mmHg above control had no effect on plasma AVP, ACTH, or PRA.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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