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1. In the anaesthetized dog the carotid sinuses and aortic arch were isolated from the circulation and separately perfused with blood by a method which enabled the mean pressure, pulse pressure and pulse frequency to be varied independently in each vasosensory area. The systemic circulation was perfused at constant blood flow by means of a pump and the systemic venous blood was oxygenated by an extracorporeal isolated pump-perfused donor lung preparation.
2. When the vasosensory areas were perfused at non-pulsatile pressures within the normal physiological range of mean pressures, the reflex reduction in systemic vascular resistance produced by a given rise in mean carotid sinus pressure was significantly greater than that resulting from the same rise of aortic arch pressure.
3. On the other hand, when the vasosensory areas were perfused at normal pulsatile pressures and within the normal physiological range of mean pressures, there was no difference in the size of the reflex vascular responses elicited by the same rise in mean pressure in the carotid sinuses and in the aortic arch.
4. Whereas the vasomotor responses elicited reflexly by changes in mean carotid sinus pressure are modified by alterations in pulse pressure, those evoked by the aortic arch baroreceptors through changes of mean pressure are only weakly affected by modifications in pulse pressure. Evidence for this was obtained from single stepwise changes of mean pressure in each vasosensory area during pulsatile and non-pulsatile perfusion, and from curves relating the mean pressure in the carotid sinuses or aortic arch and systemic arterial perfusion pressure.
5. The vasomotor response elicited by combined stimulation of the carotid sinus and aortic arch baroreceptors was greater than either response resulting from their separate stimulation.
6. When the mean perfusion pressures in the two vasosensory areas are changed together, the curve relating mean pressure to systemic arterial pressure during pulsatile perfusion of the areas is considerably flatter than that for non-pulsatile perfusion.
7. Increasing the pulse pressure in the carotid sinuses or aortic arch caused a decrease in systemic vascular resistance, the response elicited from the carotid sinuses being the larger.
8. Altering the phase angle between the pulse pressure waves in the carotid sinuses and aortic arch had no effect on systemic vascular resistance.
9. In both vasosensory areas, increasing the pulse frequency caused a reduction in systemic vascular resistance.
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