Direct Recording of Cardiac Output- and Venous Return-Curves in the Dog Heart-Lung Preparation for a Graphical Analysis of the Effects of Cardioactive Drugs

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  • ISHIKAWA Naohisa
    Department of Pharmacology, Nagoya University School of Medicine
  • TAKI Kazumi
    Department of Pharmacology, Nagoya University School of Medicine
  • HOJO Yasuo
    Department of Pharmacology, Nagoya University School of Medicine
  • HAGINO Yasumichi
    Department of Pharmacology, Nagoya University School of Medicine
  • SHIGEI Tatsuro
    Department of Pharmacology, Nagoya University School of Medicine

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  • Direct Recording of Cardiac Output- and Venous Return-Curves in the Dog Hear-Lung Preparation for a Graphical Analysis of the Effects of Cardioactive Drugs
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The dog heart-lung preparations were prepared. The "equilibrium point", which could be defined as the point at which the cardiac output (CO)-curve and the venous return (VR)-curve crossed, when the CO and VR were plotted against the right atrial pressure, was recorded directly by utilizing an X-Y recorder. The CO-curve was obtained, as a locus of the equilibrium point, by raising and lowering the level of blood in the venous reservoir (competence test). The meaning of the procedure was shown to increase or decrease the mean systemic pressure, and to cause the corresponding parallel shift in the VR-curve. The VR-curve was obtained by changing myocardial contractility. When heart failure was induced by pentobarbital or by chloroform, the equilibrium point shifted downwards to the right, depicting the VR-curve. During development of the failure, the slopes of CO-curves decreased gradually. Effects of cinobufagin and norepinephrine were also analyzed. Utilization of the X-Y recorder enabled us to settle the uniform experimental conditions more easily, and to follow the effects of drugs continuously on a diagram equating the CO- and VR-curves (Guyton's scheme).

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