In an avian model, right vagus stimulation exerts a greater chronotropic effect than left vagus stimulation, while both have approximately equipotent negative inotropic and lusitropic effects on the ventricles.
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Avian model shows asymmetric vagal chronotropy with symmetric ventricular effects; leaves open translational relevance to human autonomic modulation.
We determined the effects of vagus nerve stimulation on cardiac cycle length and on ventricular contraction and relaxation in 18 chickens anesthetized with pentobarbital. Right vagus stimulation at a constant frequency of 35 Hz prolonged cycle length by 190%, whereas left vagus stimulation at the same frequency increased cycle length by 136%. When one burst of stimuli was delivered to the right vagus nerve each cardiac cycle, but the timing of the stimuli was changed within the cardiac cycle, the response of the avian pacemaker cells varied substantially with the timing of the stimuli. Right and left vagus stimulation at a constant frequency of 20 Hz depressed ventricular contraction by 62 +/- 6 and 52 +/- 6%, respectively, and depressed ventricular relaxation by 56 +/- 7 and 53 +/- 7%, respectively. These results indicate that in the chicken the chronotropic effects of right vagus stimulation are greater than those of left vagus stimulation, whereas right and left vagus stimulation are approximately equipotent on ventricular contraction and relaxation.
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