Population
13 freely behaving WKY rats instrumented with venous and arterial catheters and chest electrodes
Comparison
Intravenous atropine and/or propranolol vs Control condition (baseline)
Design
Preclinical
Follow-up
90 min
Authors
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Parasympathetic mediation of rat HF/MF HRV is supported; leaves open translation to human autonomic assessment.
In freely behaving rats, parasympathetic blockade with atropine significantly reduces both high-frequency and mid-frequency heart rate and blood pressure variability, whereas sympathetic blockade with propranolol has no significant effect.
Perlini et al. (1995) studied this question.