AUTONOMIC RESPONSES TO VESTIBULAR STIMULATION.
Abstract
Decerebrate, paralyzed cats were used to determine some autonomic effects of vestibular stimulation and to establish through which peripheral links this vestibulofugal activity was transmitted. Vestibular stimulation increased both rate and depth of respiration, as demonstrated by phrenic and recurrent laryngeal nerve recording, and a marked elevation in blood pressure accompanied this effect. When the strength of stimulation was reduced and the evoked respiratory effect weak or questionable, the systemic blood pressure declined. Vestibular stimulation elicited strong responses from the neck vagus nerve, but this vestibulo-vagal activity was found to be conducted exclusively in the recurrent laryngeal nerve and not in the vagus nerve proper. Only the sympathetic portion of the autonomic system responded to vestibular stimulation, thus providing vestibular impulses a channel for reaching different effector organs. The responses obtained from the neck sympathetic nerve were analyzed and their characteristics described. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 11, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0689118
Entities
People
- Bo E. Gernandt
- Pei Chin Tang
Organizations
- Naval Aerospace Medical Institute