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Psychosomatic Medicine 18:420-426 (1956)
© 1956 American Psychosomatic Society

Influence of Emotional Stress on the Renal Circulation

ROLF BLOMSTRAND 1 and FOLKE LÖFGREN 1

1 Institute of Anatomy, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

Cats reduced to a state of emotional stress after confrontation with a barking dog exhibit a profound alteration of the renal circulation. The cortex is more or less strongly anemized. This is evidenced on intravital injection of India ink either as an irregular mottling or as a uniform absence of ink in the cortex, whereas the medulla is hyperemic or strongly ink injected. No diversion of the blood or India ink through the juxtamedullary glomeruli is noted. The tendency of the renal cortex to become anemized under psychogenic influence with the subsequent release of pressor agents ought to be regarded in a consideration of the pathogenesis of essential hypertension.

Submitted on June 20, 1955






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