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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 77, Issue 2 606-613, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society
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A. R. Abdel-Rahman, R. H. Merrill and W. R. Wooles
Department of Pharmacology, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina 27858.
The present study investigates the baroreceptor reflex control of heart rate (HR) of normotensive male and female human volunteers under two conditions: bolus- and infusion-evoked elevations of blood pressure by intravenous administration of phenylephrine. Average age and blood pressure were similar in both sexes, but females had a significantly lower heart period (HP; higher HR). A major difference existed between the two sexes when the blood pressure was elevated by the bolus method. Females had a significantly (50%) smaller baroreflex sensitivity (regression coefficient), which inferred a gender-related difference in baroreceptor reflex control of HR. However, because a positive correlation existed between basal HP and baroreflex sensitivity, it was important to investigate whether this difference was related to the significantly lower basal HP in females. This possibility was ruled out because a similar difference still existed when the data were collected from another group of females who had basal HP values similar to those of males. This gender-related difference in baroreceptor reflex control of HR seems to depend on the pattern by which the pressor stimulus is evoked. The baroreceptor HP response to a slowly developing pressor response that was maintained at a steady-state level was very similar in both sexes. Because the HP response to abrupt (bolus-evoked) pressor stimuli mainly reflects the activity of the vagal component, our findings suggest that the cardiac vagal component seems to play a substantially smaller role in the baroreflex-mediated bradycardia in females.
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