[Circulatory features of "chemically" desympathized rats]

Desympathized rats developed a lower arterial pressure, a higher heart rate and a greater one--minute blood volume heart output as compared to intact rats. The total peripheral resistance in the major circulation of desympathized rats is by 1.7 times lesser although their structural component of the resistance is higher. The latter finding seems to be due to a reduce density of vessels per unit of tissue volume. The time of half--washing of Xe33 out of intramuscular depot in working hyperemia during motor nerve stimulation is nearly twofold in desympathized rats. The humber of small resistance vessels seems to be lessened per unit of tissue volume in desympathized animals whereas the lumen of separate vessels in them is larger than in normal animals. This accounts for considerable reduction of the range of vasomotor vascular regulation in desympathized animals.