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Muscle receptor excitability in relation to cardiac activity and arterial pressure

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Experiments were performed on frogs and rabbits. A study was made of the dependence of the cardiovascular system on changes in proprioceptor excitability induced by anesthesia. It was shown that application of a cathode to a frog gastrocnemium causes an increase in the heart rate; on the other hand, application of an anode to the muscle depresses cardiac activity. Cooling the triceps femoris of a rabbit, or injecting novocaine into it, causes a rapid decrease in arterial pressure of 6–8 mm Hg. Consequently, not only muscular activity, but also change of excitability of the skeletal muscle proprioceptors is accompanied by reflex circulatory changes. These are visceromotor effects.

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  1. Department of Normal Physiology, Perm Medical Institute, Perm, USSR

    V. P. Kolychev

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Kolychev, V.P. Muscle receptor excitability in relation to cardiac activity and arterial pressure. Bull Exp Biol Med 48, 1458–1461 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00792735

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