Population
Various animal species including fox, sheep, goat, monkey, polecat, rat, badger, opossum rat and hare
Comparison
Electrical stimulation of the lumbar sympathetic… vs Baseline and before adrenergic blockade
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Species-specific sympathetic cholinergic vasodilation warrants caution extrapolating across mammals; leaves open human relevance.
The study demonstrates species-specific differences in the presence of sympathetic cholinergic vasodilator nerves in skeletal muscle, which are present in foxes, sheep, and goats but absent in several other mammalian species.
Bolme et al. (1970) studied this question.
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