Sympathetic nerve stimulation causes severe vasoconstriction in the rabbit submaxillary gland, adversely affecting fluid secretion even during parasympathetic activation.
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Sympathetic-parasympathetic interactions in salivary glands are hypothesis-generating; leaves open translation to human secretory disorders.
The excitation of the chorda-tympani nerve caused a marked increase in the blood flow through the gland and in secretion of saliva; both phenomena had a threshold frequency of around 0.3 Hz and reached a maximum at around 20 Hz, where a 6-fold increase in the blood flow and a salivary secretion of at the most 300 microliters/min were seen. Sympathetic excitation severely retarded the blood flow, which almost ceased at frequencies as low as 3-5 Hz; mostly single shocks of sympathetic stimulation reduced the blood flow through the gland. An on-going parasympathetic activation did not alter the effects of sympathetic stimulation on the blood flow and the parasympathetically produced salivary secretion almost stopped. The experiments support previous results, which have suggested electrical excitation of the sympathetic trunk at or above 2 Hz to cause a vasoconstriction which adversely affects the fluid secretion in the rabbit salivary glands.
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P. Gjörstrup (1982) studied this question.
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