Abstract

This paper reports experiments to determine the relative roles of changes in cardiac output and systemic vascular resistance in determining the blood pressure response to intermittent step-changes and continuous sinusoidal changes in carotid sinus transmural pressure. Conscious rabbits with a variable-pressure capsule implanted around an innervated carotid sinus were used. After step-change in capsule pressure the approximate proportions of the changes in blood pressure attributable to changes in cardiac output were, during the pressor response, 7% after 2.5 s, 22% after 10 s and 27% at plateau, and during the depressor response 100%, 8% and 17%, respectively. During sinusoidal change in capsule pressure a mean 7% of the change in blood pressure over the full cycle was attributable to change in cardiac output.

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