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The effect on vascular interoceptor reflexes of anodic and cathodic polarization of the medulla oblongata

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Acute preparations of cats were used for a study of interoceptor reflexes involving blood pressure changes, and of the pressor reaction which developed in response to polarization of the medulla oblongata. It was found that both cathode and anode elicited essentially similar phasic blood pressure changes. Because of its relatively weaker effect, the anode restored reflexes (within certain limits) which had been depressed by previous cathodic stimulation.

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  1. Laboratory of Pathological Physiology I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, AN SSSR, Leningrad

    T. V. Popova

  2. Laboratory of the Physiology of Circulation and Respiration I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, AN SSSR, Leningrad

    T. V. Popova

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Popova, T.V. The effect on vascular interoceptor reflexes of anodic and cathodic polarization of the medulla oblongata. Bull Exp Biol Med 50, 770–775 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00784566

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