Pulmonary blood volume (PRV) in rats with chronic mountain sickness
Upon chronic exposure to severe hypoxia, Hilltop (H) strain of Sprague-Dawley rats develops excessive polycythemia, severe hypervolemia and marked elevation in pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP), whereas Madison (M) strain develops only moderate responses. Hypervolemia is expected to increase the PBV which might contribute to the development of severe pulmonary hypertension. Two groups of 6 animals each of the H and M strains were exposed to sea level (SL) and a simulated altitude of 18,000 ft for 14 days. At the end of exposure each animal was measured for RBC volume (RBCV), total blood volume (TBV), PBV and PAP under normoxia for control and under hypoxia (10% O/sub 2/) for the hypoxic groups. RBCV was determined by /sup 51/Cr-RBC dilution and PBV was trapped by tightening an implanted loose ligature around the ascending aorta and PA. There were not strain differences in all parameters studied at SL. RBCV, TBV and PAP increased with hypoxia in both strains but significantly more so in H than M. PBV per g lung WT decreased in both strains despite elevated TBV and PAP, but more so in M than H. There were good correlations between the PBV and TBV, and between PAP and PBV in the hypoxic H and M rats. The data suggest that chronic hypoxia reduced the distensibility and perhaps the vascular capacity of the lungs such that small relative increase in PBV could significantly contribute to the rise in PAP.
- Research Organization:
- Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
- OSTI ID:
- 7164750
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8604222-; TRN: 87-003961
- Journal Information:
- Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States), Vol. 45:4; Conference: 70. annual meeting of the Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology, St. Louis, MO, USA, 13 Apr 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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