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Fetal development of baroreflex sensitivity: the chicken embryo as a case model.
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PMID:  21473934     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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The baroreflex is the main short term compensatory mechanism to buffer blood pressure changes and maintain circulatory homeostasis. Its ontogeny and importance during prenatal life is not fully understood so we used broiler chickens to investigate the maturation of the baroreflex in late incubation using a novel method that measured changes in heart rate during spontaneous fluctuations in blood pressure. Our results suggest that a baroreflex is already functional at day 17 with no indication of further maturation in terms of sensitivity (gain at 17d was 52.9±8.3 and at 20d 69.5±16.2mskPa(-1)). The physiological relevance of these values is shown using data surrogation methods. Although the results contrast with the progressive baroreflex maturation indicated by the pharmacological method, we sustain that both methods provide information on baroreflex regulation. While the spontaneous method evaluates truly physiological (but small) pressure changes, the pharmacological method provides a more consistent and repetitive challenge for the reflex that requires a different recruitment of baroreflex effectors.
Authors:
Magnus Elfwing; Karin Lundengård; Jordi Altimiras
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Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-4-4
Journal Detail:
Title:  Respiratory physiology & neurobiology     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1878-1519     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Apr 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-4-8     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  101140022     Medline TA:  Respir Physiol Neurobiol     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Copyright © 2011. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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AVIAN Behavioural Genomics and Physiology, IFM Biology, Linköping University, SE-58183 Linköping, Sweden.
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