| Abstract: | Mechanical or thermal injury to one of a pair of parabiotic rats with a crossed circulation but separate innervation was followed by the development of a state resembling shock in the other partner. Microcirculatory changes characteristic of either traumatic or burn shock developed in its mesentery under these circumstances. The results are interpreted as evidence in support of a humoral rather than a nervous mechanism of the microcirculatory disturbances in these types of shock.Laboratory of Pathophysiology of Extremal States, Research Institute of General Pathological Physiology, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. (Presented by Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR N. A. Fedorov.) Translated from Byulleten' Éksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 86, No. 10, pp. 416–418, October, 1978. |
