“…However, it should be noted that carotid sinus pressure was changed over a greater range than the ventricular pressure. It is difficult to relate these responses to those of earlier investigators largely because of the different techniques used to stimulate ventricular receptors and also because in many of the earlier studies responses were frequently not studied for long enough to evaluate steady-state changes (Mark, Abboud, Schmid & Heistad, 1973;Chevalier, Weber, Lyons, Nicoloff & Fox, 1974;Zelis, Lotysh, Brais, Peng, Hurley & Mason, 1977). In the present study we noted that changes in ventricular pressure resulted in alterations of vascular resistance in the whole animal which were better sustained than those in the perfused hindlimb reported by Challenger et al (1987).…”