Role of Efferent Sympathoadrenal Effects in Cooling-Induced Hemodynamic Perturbations in Rats: An Investigation by Spectrum Analysis

10.4077/CJP.2015.BAD317

Yia-Ping Liu；Yi-Hsien Lin；Chen-Cheng Lin；Yu-Chieh Lin；Yu-Chun Chen；Po-Lei Lee；Che-Se Tung

guanethidine ； hemodynamic perturbations ； hexamethonium ； spectral powers ； stressful cooling ； sympathetic influences

The Chinese Journal of Physiology

58卷5期（2015 / 10 / 31）

312 - 321

英文

Cold stress may produce hemodynamic perturbations but the underlying mechanisms are still not clear. Spectral analysis was used in this study to explore that sympathoadrenal activation could be involved in mechanisms of hemodynamic perturbations to cooling. Conscious rats after treatment with a control vehicle (saline) compared with withdrawal of sympathetic influences by ganglion blocker hexamethonium (HEX) or chemical sympathectomy guanethidine (GUA) were challenged by stressful cooling as acute immersing all four extremities in ice water (4 ± 2°C) for 10 min. Plasma nitric oxide (NO) and the appearance of Dichroitic notch (DN) were measured in comparison between treatment groups throughout the experimental course. Hemodynamic indices were telemetrically monitored, and variability of blood pressure and heart rate (BPV; HRV) were assessed over a range of frequencies: very-low frequency (VLF: 0.02-0.2 Hz), low frequency (LF: 0.2-0.6 Hz), high frequency (HF: 0.6-3 Hz), normalized (n)LF, nHF, ratio LF/HF of HRV (LF/HF_(HRV)), and total power (TP: ≦ 3 Hz). Results showed that the concomitant reciprocal changes of spectral powers existed between frequencies of BPV and HRV to the stressful cooling (i.e. VLF_(BPV) versus VLF_(HRV), LF_(BPV) versus LF_(HRV), and nLF_(BPV) versus nLF_(HRV)) which contribute to the underlying mechanisms of sympathetic efferent influences and myogenic cardiovascular responsiveness. Furthermore, compared with the control vehicle in the stressful cooling, HEX restrained the increase of the pressor, tachycardia and VLF_(BPV), except that VLF_(HRV) was reduced. GUA abolished pressor, however, restrained the increase of the tachycardia, VLF_(BPV) and LF_(BPV). In addition, GUA reversed the downward tendency of nLF_(BPV) into an upward tendency and attenuated both nLF_(HRV) and LF/HF_(HRV). DN was virtually undetectable after HEX management but was apparently noticeable after GUA management. Finally, the increase of plasma NO after cooling was diminished after HEX or GUA management. Taken together, these results substantiate that the spectral changes during stressful cooling are highly relevant to the efferent sympathetic rhythmicity and subsequent NO production.

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