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J Neurophysiol 91: 382-396, 2004. First published September 17, 2003; doi:10.1152/jn.00526.2003
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Heartbeat Control in Leeches. I. Constriction Pattern and Neural Modulation of Blood Pressure in Intact Animals

Angela Wenning, Gennady S. Cymbalyuk and Ronald L. Calabrese

Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Submitted 30 May 2003; accepted in final form 15 September 2003

Two tubular hearts propel blood through the closed circulatory system of the medicinal leech. The hearts are myogenic but are driven by a centrally generated motor pattern that controls heart rate and intersegmental coordination. In two consecutive papers, we address the question of how the motor pattern is translated into the pattern of diastole and systole of leech hearts. We imaged the constriction patterns of the hearts in quiescent intact animals. In one heart, systole progresses rear-to-front (peristaltic coordination mode), whereas systole occurs nearly simultaneously in the other heart (synchronous coordination mode) with regular switches between these two coordination modes. Intersegmental phase relations between heart segments do not vary with changes in the heartbeat period. The peristaltic heart drives blood forward through itself and then rearward through the other longitudinal vessels. The synchronous heart does not seem to contribute to rearward flow along the body axis and may support segmental circulation instead. Simultaneous monitoring of heart motor neuron discharge and the constriction of the corresponding heart segment in innervated, reduced preparations enabled us later to meld the constriction pattern with the fictive motor pattern described in the following paper. Current injections into one heart modulatory neuron while monitoring intravascular pressure from the corresponding heart showed that these neurons can acutely change diastolic and systolic pressure. However, they do not determine the different systolic pressure profiles associated with the two coordination modes, which appear to result from the constriction pattern.

Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: A. Wenning, Dept. of Biology, Emory University, 1510 Clifton Rd., Atlanta, GA 30322 (E-mail: awenning{at}biology.emory.edu).




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