THE EFFECT OF DESTRUCTION OF THE SPINAL CORD ON HYPERTENSION ARTIFICIALLY PRODUCED IN DOGS

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Abstract
The spinal cord was destroyed in each of five dogs in which previously an hypertension was produced by partial constriction of both renal arteries. The expts. were carried out in an effort to determine the relationship between the central nervous system and exptl. hypertension. The destruction of the spinal cord below the level of the 5th cervical vertebra immediately is followed by a sharp fall in blood pressure, which subsequently rises to a level exceeding that recorded as normal for the animal before hypertension was produced.