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Central alpha-adrenergic receptors and corticotropin releasing factor mediate hemodynamic responses to acute cold stress.

Abstract：

:Behavioral stress is likely to contribute to the development of hypertension in susceptible individuals. We reported that hemodynamic response patterns to acute startle vary and that those patterns predict the predisposition of rats to sustained stress-induced elevations in arterial pressure. Since considerable evidence suggests that central catecholamines and corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) contribute to the regulation of arterial pressure and the development of hypertension, we investigated the role of central alpha-adrenergic receptors and CRF in mediating different hemodynamic response patterns to acute cold water stress in conscious rats. Rats were instrumented for arterial pressure, heart rate and cardiac output determination and for intracerebroventricular (icv) administration of selective antagonists. After acclimation to a water tight cage, ice water (1 cm deep) was rapidly added then drained 1 min later. Although the early startle response to cold water stress elicited a pressor response in all rats, the hemodynamic response pattern varied between rats. Vascular responders (n=19) had an initial considerable increase in systemic vascular resistance and a decrease in cardiac output. In contrast, mixed responders (n=11) had a smaller increase in vascular resistance and an increase in cardiac output. Pretreatment with phentolamine (30 microgram/5 microliter, icv, n=8), prazosin (10 microgram/5 microliter, icv, n=12) or alpha-helical CRF(9-41) (10 microgram/5 microliter, icv, n=9) prevented the decrease in cardiac output elicited by acute cold water stress in vascular responders without affecting mixed responders. Yohimbine (3 microgram/5 microliter, icv, n=8) pretreatment did not alter hemodynamic responses. Therefore, we conclude that central alpha(1)-adrenoceptors and CRF mediate the specific hemodynamic response patterns to acute startle and may be responsible for the predisposition to develop hypertension in vascular responders.

journal_name

Brain Res

journal_title

Brain research

authors

Tan Y,Gan Q,Knuepfer MM

doi

10.1016/s0006-8993(03)02226-1

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-04-04 00:00:00

pages

122-9

issue

eissn

0006-8993

issn

1872-6240

pii

S0006899303022261

journal_volume

968

pub_type

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Central alpha-adrenergic receptors and corticotropin releasing factor mediate hemodynamic responses to acute cold stress.