[Participation of the cardiac sympathetic innervation in the occurrence of vagotomic and atropine tachycardia in anesthetized dogs].

The sympathetic nervous system's role in the post-vagotomy and atropin-induced tachycardia was studied in anesthetized dogs. Bilateral vagotomy was followed by 166% tachycardia while on exclusion of the heart sympathetic innervation (inderal or novocain injections into the right stellate ganglion) the bilateral vagotomy was accompanied by a considerably lesser tachycardia (33%). The i.v. atropine administration increased the heart rate by 177% whereas in the presence of inderal it increased the heart rate by 77% only. Thereupon, the post-vagotomy or atropin-induced tachycardia in anesthetized dogs was to a considerable extent associated with activation of the sympatho-adrenal system.