... of sodium nitroprusside and phenylephrine. Both fasting and digesting snakes responded with a robust tachycardia to hypotension induced by sodium nitroprusside, with digesting snakes attaining higher maximal heart rates than fasting snakes. Both fasting and digesting snakes exhibited small reductions...

...Jordi Altimiras; Craig E. Franklin; Michael Axelsson ABSTRACT The cardiac limb of the baroreflex loop was studied in the saltwater crocodile Crocodylus porosus . The classical pharmacological methodology using phenylephrine and sodium nitroprusside was used to trigger blood pressure changes...