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  • Title: A chronically instrumented rat model to assess the altered baroreflex due to exercise.
    Author: Hyek MF, Szilagyi JE, Tate CA.
    Journal: Med Sci Sports Exerc; 1995 Sep; 27(9):1339-44. PubMed ID: 8531635.
    Abstract:
    We developed a conscious, chronically instrumented, exercise-trained rat model and examined the time course of the training-induced alteration of baroreflex function in response to hypertensive conditions. Exercise-trained (ET) animals ran at 18 m.min-1, 15% grade, for 60 min.d-1, 5 d.wk-1 for 5 wk. Baroreflex tests were conducted on day 6 each week. Regression line slopes relating the change in mean arterial pressure (delta MAP) to the change in heart rate (delta HR) were used to assess baroreflex sensitivity. Intravenous injections of phenylephrine were used to create hypertensive conditions. Compared with the C group, slopes of ET animals were reduced (from 2.1 to 1.2 bpm.mm Hg-1, P < 0.05) as early as week 3 of training in response to increasing doses of PE, and reached 0.8 bpm.mm Hg-1 by the end of training. The reflex bradycardiac response (delta HR) to PE was reduced (P < 0.05) depending on the dose of PE and the duration of training: in micrograms PE.kg-1 body weight, 5 (71% +/- 6% of control at week 2), 3 (70% +/- 7% of control at week 3, and 1 (61% +/- 10% of control at week 4). The pressor (delta MAP) to PE remained constant throughout training. Thus, using a chronically instrumented rat model that maintains the ability to run, we observed that the ability of the arterial baroreflex to produce bradycardia during pressor events was substantially reduced following as few as 2 wk of training.
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