Effects of β-endorphin on cardiac afferent systems

Studies performed on cats have shown that the antifibrillatory effect of β-endorphin under acute myocardial ischemia is mediated by afferent pathways of the vagus nerves and sympathetic components of arrhythmogenesis. This effect is associated with the ability of β-endorphin to change the impulse activity of cardiovascular and integrative neurons of the nodose ganglion. Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 126, No. 9, pp. 294–298, September, 1998