Why the study?
Does superior cervical sympathetic nerve activity differ between stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats and standard spontaneously hypertensive rats?
Does superior cervical sympathetic nerve activity differ between stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats and standard spontaneously hypertensive rats?
Stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats exhibit a diminished capacity for elevated sympathetic nerve activity during stress, which may contribute to their increased susceptibility to stroke.
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Diminished sympathetic response during ischemia may heighten stroke vulnerability in hypertension models; leaves open relevance to human sympathetic modulation.
Mueller et al. (1985) studied this question.
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