We sought to determine whether catecholamines are responsible for the depressed left ventricular (LV) function that follows massive sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation and whether the additional myocardial energy demands of
The intracisternal administration of veratrine to the chloralose-anesthetized dog produces pulmonary hypertension (PH) and neurogenic pulmonary edema (NPE). To determine whether pulmonary vasoconstriction, mediated by a circulating agent, contributes…
