[Prevention of cardiac contractile function disorders during prolonged stress by preliminary adaptation to short-term...

Studies of contractile function of an isolated right auricle in Wistar rats have demonstrated that long-term immobilization stress (fixation in the lying position for 6 h) results in the decreased extensibility of the auricle and pronounced depression of the developed tension. Preliminary adaptation of the animals to short-term immobilization stress (daily fixation in the lying position for 1 h over 10 days) per se insignificantly affects the extensibility and contractile function of the auricle but in effect it reduces its adrenoreactivity and completely prevents the post-stressor rigidity of the auricle and its function abnormality after long-term stress.