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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 271, Issue 3 751-R756, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society
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W. Wang and I. H. Zucker
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha 68198-4575, USA.
It is well accepted that sympathetic tone is elevated in chronic heart failure (HF) and that the cardiac sympathetic afferent reflex is a sympathoexcitatory reflex. There have been no studies designed to examine the role of this reflex in control of sympathetic outflow in the HF state. In this study we tested the hypothesis that cardiac sympathetic afferent reflexes are enhanced in HF and are, therefore, capable of contributing to the increase in sympathetic outflow in this disease state. Ventricular pacing was carried out in 14 dogs until signs of HF were evident. Fourteen sham dogs served as controls. At the time of the acute experiment the dogs were anesthetized with alpha-chloralose. The hemodynamic [arterial pressure and heart rate (HR)] and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) responses to left ventricular epicardial application of two doses of bradykinin (BK) and capsaicin (Cap) were determined in the sinoaortic-denervated and vagotomized state. The MAP, RSNA, and HR responses to BK were greater in the HF group compared with the sham group. The RSNA response to BK (50 micrograms) in the HF group was significantly increased (34.0 +/- 5.9 vs. 11.5 +/- 4.2%, P < 0.05). The MAP, RSNA, and HR responses to Cap in the HF group were similar to the responses to BK. The RSNA response to Cap in the HF group was significantly increased (29.8 +/- 11.3 vs. 13.8 +/- 2.3% for 10 micrograms, P < 0.05 and 46.5 +/- 10.7 vs. 18.7 +/- 3.1% for 100 micrograms, P < 0.05). The cyclooxygenase blocker indomethacin (5 mg/kg i.v.) attenuated the reflex responses to BK in the HF group. These data suggest that the enhanced cardiac sympathetic afferent reflex to epicardial BK in HF appears to be mediated by altered levels of prostaglandin synthesis. Blockade of cardiac sympathetic afferents with topical lidocaine reduced baseline of RSNA significantly more in the HF state than in the normal state (-24.2 +/- 3.6 vs. -4.3 +/- 4.5%, P < 0.05). We conclude from these data that the cardiac sympathetic afferent reflex is sensitized in the HF state and speculate that this enhanced cardiac sympathetic afferent reflex may contribute to the sustained higher sympathetic tone in chronic HF.
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