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L E Dmitrieva1, V A Sizonov1, S V Kuznetsov2
1I. M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Abstract:
The effect of dose-dependent activation of cholinoreactive structures on the severity of sinus bradycardia occurring in some intact newborn rats during the first weeks after birth was analyzed in non-narcotized one-day-old (P1) and 16-day-old (P16) rats. The parameters of low-amplitude bradycardic oscillations of heart rhythm in norm and after administration of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor physostigmine (eserine) in different doses (1/100, 1/10, and 3/4LD50) to rats were studied. The maximum increase in the power of low-amplitude brady-cardic oscillations was achieved during moderate activation of cholinoreactive structures after injection of eserine in a dose of 1/10LD50. Further increase in acetylcholine level led to disappearance of the sinus rhythm and development of pathological bradycardia. The data obtained indicate the immaturity of the mechanisms of heart rhythm regulation in rats immediately after birth. During activation of cholinoreactive structures, the severity of bradycardia oscillations increases exponentially at P1 and has an inverse exponential character at P16, which indicates a high risk of cardiac rhythmogenesis disorders and dysrhythmia development in newborn rats under conditions of excessive enhancement of cholinergic activation.
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