{"title":"The effect of changes in blood volume on low frequency blood pressure fluctuations in spontaneously hypertensive rats","authors":"O. Oz, S. Eliash, S. Cohen, S. Akselrod","doi":"10.1109/CIC.1989.130481","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study is based on the hypothesis that the development of essential hypertension is due to a defect in cardiovascular control. Young, prehypertensive, spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) rats were compared with normotensive Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats. Spectral analysis of blood pressure (ABP) fluctuations previously demonstrated that baseline low-frequency fluctuations (0.04-0.1 Hz) are reduced in the SHR rats even before they develop hypertension. In the present study, 20-min-long ABP traces were sampled with the focus on frequencies as low as 0.004 Hz. The effect caused by a perturbation in blood pressure was investigated in young SHR versus WKY rats. A sudden drop in blood volume (2-ml bleeding) caused a clear increase in low-frequency ABP fluctuations, more pronounced in SHR than in WKY rats. The decrease in mean ABP was larger in SHR (-42%) than in WKY rats (-21%). Alpha/sub 1/-blockade (prazosin) affected the reaction of both species to bleeding differently. The results indicate that the SHR rats exhibit an abnormal nervous response ( alpha -sympathetic) to a drop in blood pressure, which might be at the basis of the development of hypertension.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":161494,"journal":{"name":"[1989] Proceedings. Computers in Cardiology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[1989] Proceedings. Computers in Cardiology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIC.1989.130481","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study is based on the hypothesis that the development of essential hypertension is due to a defect in cardiovascular control. Young, prehypertensive, spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) rats were compared with normotensive Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats. Spectral analysis of blood pressure (ABP) fluctuations previously demonstrated that baseline low-frequency fluctuations (0.04-0.1 Hz) are reduced in the SHR rats even before they develop hypertension. In the present study, 20-min-long ABP traces were sampled with the focus on frequencies as low as 0.004 Hz. The effect caused by a perturbation in blood pressure was investigated in young SHR versus WKY rats. A sudden drop in blood volume (2-ml bleeding) caused a clear increase in low-frequency ABP fluctuations, more pronounced in SHR than in WKY rats. The decrease in mean ABP was larger in SHR (-42%) than in WKY rats (-21%). Alpha/sub 1/-blockade (prazosin) affected the reaction of both species to bleeding differently. The results indicate that the SHR rats exhibit an abnormal nervous response ( alpha -sympathetic) to a drop in blood pressure, which might be at the basis of the development of hypertension.<>