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Published on: February 14, 2021
Effects of sidestream cigarette smoke exposure on baroreflex components in spontaneously hypertensive rats
Vitor E Valenti1, Luiz Carlos Abreu, Paulo H Saldiva
1Departamento de Medicina, Disciplina de Cardiologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil. valenti@unifesp.br
Abstract:
We evaluated short-term effects of sidestream cigarette smoke (SSCS) exposure on baroreflex function in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar Kyoto (WKY) normotensive rats. Rats were exposed to SSCS during three weeks, 180 min, five days per week, in a concentration of carbon monoxide (CO) between 100 and 300 ppm. We observed that SSCS exposure increased tachycardic peak and heart rate range while it attenuated bradycardic reflex in WKY. In respect to SHR, SSCS also increased tachycardic peak. Taken together, our data suggests that three weeks of exposure to SSCS affects the sympathetic and parasympathetic component of the baroreflex in normotensive WKY while it tended to affect the sympathetic component in SHR.
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