text: Yo, check it out, listen up, I got something to say,
  'Bout patients with heart failure, in a neurohumoral way.
  They be exhibitin' an excitatory state, you see,
  With abnormal baroreflex control, it's a catastrophe.
  
  We wanted to know if arterial baroreflexes were impaired,
  During left ventricular dysfunction, we declared,
  Caused by chronic myocardial infarction, no congestive heart fail,
  And if abnormal central mechanisms contribute, we unveil.
  
  In anesthetized rats, we stimulated the baroreceptors,
  Increased arterial pressure with phenylephrine, the specter.
  Recorded lumbar sympathetic and phrenic nerve activity,
  Plus heart rate, we observed with scientific brevity.
  
  We split the rats into groups, based on infarct size,
  Moderate LVD showed impaired responses, no surprise.
  Baroreflex control of sympathetic, ventilatory, and heart rate,
  Was impaired, inversely related to the infarct's fate.
  
  The central gain for sympathetic nerve activity, we sought,
  Using electrical stimulation of the aortic depressor nerve, we fought.
  And guess what? It was impaired too, a significant find,
  Baroreflex control in rats with LVD, we had to remind.
  
  No congestive heart failure, but still the impairments arose,
  The cardiorespiratory system's baroreflexes were at a close.
  Abnormal afferent mechanisms, likely the cause,
  But central mechanisms also played a part, no pause.