Effect of vagus nerve stimulation on coagulability of the blood in cats.
Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve in cats leads to the development of hypercoagulation, accompanied by an increase in the thromboplastic activity of the blood. Increased fibrinoloysis under these conditions is evidently protective in character and aimed at dissolving the clots that may be formed in the blood stream as a result of the development of hypercoagulation.
D000818:Animals; D001777:Blood Coagulation; D001780:Blood Coagulation Tests; D002415:Cats; D003018:Clot Retraction; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005342:Fibrinolysis; D011517:Prothrombin Time; D013997:Time Factors; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000502:physiology*