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Myogenic tone and neurogenic vasoconstriction in microcirculatory bed of rat cerebral cortex
1Laboratory of General Pathology Microcirculation, Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine
|February 22, 2001
Abstract:
The reaction of rat parietal cortical vessels to stimulation of the sympathetic ganglion was studied by intravital microscopy. stimulation induced constriction of cerebral arterioles. Clamping of one or both carotid arteries led to myogenic vasodilatation in the majority of cases. Constrictive response of brain arterioles to ganglion stimulation under conditions carotid occlusion did not differ from that under conditions of baseline cerebral blood supply.