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Conditions governing the pulmonary vascular response to ventilation hypoxia and hypoxaemia in the dog
Author(s) -
Daly I. de Burgh,
Michel C. C.,
Ramsay D. J.,
Waaler B. A.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
the journal of physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.802
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1469-7793
pISSN - 0022-3751
DOI - 10.1113/jphysiol.1968.sp008512
Subject(s) - hypoxia (environmental) , cardiology , medicine , ventilation (architecture) , respiration , anesthesia , chemistry , oxygen , anatomy , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , engineering
1. Isolated lung lobes of the dog perfused through the pulmonary circulation only with atropinized autologous blood obtained by bleeding out the animal under general anaesthesia or following premedication with morphine hydrochloride were subjected to repetitive tests of ventilation hypoxia, the control and test gas mixtures containing similar concentrations of CO 2 . 2. The pulmonary vasomotor response to ventilation hypoxia depended upon the temperature of the perfusate and the time which had elapsed from the death of the animal to the start of perfusion, termed the ‘ischaemic period’. The higher blood temperatures and shorter ischaemic periods favoured a pulmonary vasopressor response to hypoxia, and the lower temperatures and longer ischaemic periods a vasodepressor response or an absence of response. 3. The vasopressor responses to hypoxia were associated with a rise in the pH (average, 0·09 in 5 experiments) and a fall in the P CO 2 of the blood. There were no consistent changes in the pH and P CO 2 of the blood accompanying vasodepressor responses. 4. The vasopressor responses could be obtained over periods of perfusion lasting 4 hr or longer. 5. It is suggested that changes in the composition of blood equilibrated in the isolated perfused lung cannot be predicted from in vitro dissociation curves.