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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
卷 219, 期 18, 页码 2880-2887出版社
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.140319
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Autonomic control; Baroreflex; Blood pressure; Bradycardia; Heart rate; Tachycardia; Temperature acclimation
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- Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet)
- Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Svenska Forskningsradet Formas)
Thermal plasticity of cardiorespiratory function allows ectotherms like fish to cope with seasonal temperature changes and is critical for resilience to climate change. Yet, the chronic thermal effects on cardiovascular homeostatic reflexes in fish are little understood although this may have important implications for physiological performance and overall resilience to climate warming. We compared cardiac autonomic control and baroreflex regulation of heart rate in perch (Perca fluviatilis L.) from a reference area in the Baltic Sea at 18-19 degrees C with conspecifics from the Biotest enclosure, a chronically heated ecosystem receiving warmed effluent water (24-25 degrees C) from a nuclear power plant. Resting heart rate of Biotest fish displayed clear thermal compensation and was 58.3+/-2.3 beats min(-1) compared with 52.4+/-2.6 beats min(-1) in reference fish at their respective environmental temperatures (Q(10) = 1.2). The thermally compensated heart rate of Biotest fish was a combined effect of elevated inhibitory cholinergic tone (105% in Biotest fish versus 70% in reference fish) and reduced intrinsic cardiac pacemaker rate. A barostatic response was evident in both groups, as pharmacologically induced increases and decreases in blood pressure resulted in atropine-sensitive bradycardia and tachycardia, respectively. Yet, the tachycardia in Biotest fish was significantly greater, presumably due to the larger scope for vagal release. Acclimation of Biotest fish to 18 degrees C for 3 weeks abolished differences in intrinsic heart rate and autonomic tone, suggesting considerable short-term thermal plasticity of cardiovascular control in this species. The heightened hypotensive tachycardia in Biotest perch may represent an important mechanism of ectothermic vertebrates that safeguards tissue perfusion pressure when tissue oxygen demand is elevated by environmental warming.
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