Effects of Acute Blood Volume Expansion on Vascular Resistance and Reactivity in Anaesthetized Dogs

1983 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhagavan S. Jandhyala ◽  
Gary J. Hom

1. The effects of acute volume expansion on vascular resistance and reactivity to noradrenaline and angiotensin II are reported in this study. The estimated circulating blood volume of pentobartibal-anaesthetized dogs was expanded by about 35% with equilibrated donor blood. The animals were bilaterally nephrectomized to sustain expanded volume. 2. Functional changes in vascular smooth muscle were determined in the flow controlled, vascularly isolated, denervated, perfused hind limb preparation in the same animal. 3. Systemic volume expansion per se had no immediate influence on vascular resistance. However, resistance in the hind limb, as determined by the shift of the pressure-flow curves, progressively increased 60 and 120 min after volume expansion. The changes noted after 120 min were significantly greater than those observed after 60 min. 4. The changes in vascular resistance were accompanied by potentiation of the vascular responses to noradrenaline but not to angiotensin II. Significant shifts which occurred in the noradrenaline dose-response curves were similar to those of the resistance curves. 5. in closely simulated control experiments in dogs whose kidneys were intact or had been removed, and whose blood had or had not been equilibrated with donor blood, the above-mentioned vascular changes were not observed in the absence of volume expansion. 6. It is suggested that the functional changes observed in the hind limb vasculature after volume expansion are related to the presence of a circulating substance. From the data obtained from the experimental model used in this study, it can be concluded that such a substance is not released from the kidney.

1984 ◽  
Vol 246 (1) ◽  
pp. H74-H79 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. Guo ◽  
D. R. Richardson

The baroreflex control of hindquarter vascular resistance in response to a 30% blood volume expansion (BVE) was examined in constant-flow perfused hindlimbs of chloralose-urethan-anesthetized rats. Volume expansion initially increased both systemic arterial pressure (SAP) and central venous pressure (CVP) while decreasing hindquarter vascular resistance. After these initial changes, there was a parallel return of hindquarter-vascular resistance and CVP to pre-expansion levels, suggesting that cardiopulmonary afferents play a major role in the vascular resistance adjustments to volume expansion. This notion was supported in a separate set of experiments in which CVP was elevated selectively while SAP was held constant. This manipulation elicited a decrease in hindquarter vascular resistance, which was significantly attenuated following vagal cardiopulmonary denervation. The return of hindquarter vascular resistance following BVE also occurred in the presence of elevated SAP in rats with vagotomy and aortic nerve denervation, i.e., only the carotid sinus baroreflexes intact, but the time course was much faster compared with preparations with cardiopulmonary receptors intact. No response of hindquarter vascular resistance to BVE was observed in rats with both sinoaortic and cardiopulmonary baroreceptors denervated. These findings suggest that the return of hindquarter vascular resistance following BVE involves a gradual increase in sympathetic outflow to the hindquarters resulting from both a decrease in cardiopulmonary afferent activity and a rapid adaptation of arterial baroreflexes.


2000 ◽  
Vol 279 (4) ◽  
pp. H1931-H1940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Gabrielsen ◽  
Vibeke B. Sørensen ◽  
Bettina Pump ◽  
Søren Galatius ◽  
Regitze Videbæk ◽  
...  

The hypothesis was tested that cardiovascular and neuroendocrine (norepinephrine, renin, and vasopressin) responses to central blood volume expansion are blunted in compensated heart failure (HF). Nine HF patients [New York Heart Association class II–III, ejection fraction = 0.28 ± 0.02 (SE)] and 10 age-matched controls (ejection fraction = 0.68 ± 0.03) underwent 30 min of thermoneutral (34.7 ± 0.02°C) water immersion (WI) to the xiphoid process. WI increased ( P < 0.05) central venous pressure by 3.7 ± 0.6 and 3.2 ± 0.4 mmHg and stroke volume index by 12.2 ± 2.1 and 7.2 ± 2.1 ml · beat−1 · m−2 in controls and HF patients, respectively. During WI, systemic vascular resistance decreased ( P < 0.05) similarly by 365 ± 66 and 582 ± 227 dyn · s · cm−5 in controls and HF patients, respectively. Forearm subcutaneous vascular resistance decreased by 19 ± 7% ( P < 0.05) in controls but did not change in HF patients. Heart rate decreased less during WI in HF patients, whereas release of norepinephrine, renin, and vasopressin was suppressed similarly in the two groups. We suggest that reflex control of forearm vascular beds and heart rate is blunted in compensated HF but that baroreflex-mediated systemic vasodilatation and neuroendocrine responses to central blood volume expansion are preserved.


1976 ◽  
Vol 231 (3) ◽  
pp. 832-836
Author(s):  
HH Bengele ◽  
S Solomon

Male rats from reduced (fast-growing) litters between 14 and 50 days of age were studied. Standard renal clearnce techniques were employed. After a 60-min control period, the animals were infused (2.3% body wt) with heparinized donor blood obtained from lillermates of the same age. Renal function was followed for an additional 60 min. The efficiency of the diuretic response, the percent infused volume excreted above control levels, and the sodium efficiency, the percent infused Na excreted, were calculated. Results indicate that both efficiencies develop in a discontinuous pattern and that they are comparable. This pattern of development, as well as the magnitude of the mature response, is comparable to that previously reported for rats from intact (normally growing) litters. The onset and attainment of the mature response is, however, shifted in time, such that reduced-litter animals achieve the mature response 10-15 days earlier than intact-litter rats. Results exclude chronological age or body weight alone as principal determinant of the mature response and suggest that some function of growth rate is responsible for the maturation of this regulatory function.


1981 ◽  
Vol 241 (4) ◽  
pp. H571-H575 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Billman ◽  
D. T. Dickey ◽  
K. K. Teoh ◽  
H. L. Stone

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of anesthesia, body position, and blood volume expansion on baroreflex control of heart rate. Five male rhesus monkeys (7.0-10.5 kg) were given bolus injection of 4.0 micrograms/kg phenylephrine during each of the following situations: awake sitting, anesthetized (AN) (10 mg/kg ketamine-HCl) sitting, AN recumbent, AN 90 degrees head down tilt, and AN 50% blood volume expansion with normal saline. beta-Receptor blockade was also performed on each treatment after anesthesia. Four additional animals were similarly treated after 20% blood volume expansion. R-R interval was plotted against systolic aortic pressure, and the slope was determined by linear regression. Baroreflex slope was significantly (P less than 0.05) reduced by 90 degrees head down tilt and 50% volume expansion both before and after beta-receptor blockade. A similar trend was seen after 20% volume expansion. These data are consistent with the thesis that baroreflex control of heart rate is reduced by central blood volume shifts.


1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 1257-1256 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.R.V. Graça ◽  
F. de-A.A. Gondim ◽  
D.I.M. Cavalcante ◽  
J. Xavier-Neto ◽  
E.L.M. Messias ◽  
...  

1997 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Bo Johansen ◽  
Thomas Ulrik Skram Jensen ◽  
Bettina Pump ◽  
Peter Norsk

Johansen, Lars Bo, Thomas Ulrik Skram Jensen, Bettina Pump, and Peter Norsk. Contribution of abdomen and legs to central blood volume expansion in humans during immersion. J. Appl. Physiol. 83(3): 695–699, 1997.—The hypothesis was tested that the abdominal area constitutes an important reservoir for central blood volume expansion (CBVE) during water immersion in humans. Six men underwent 1) water immersion for 30 min (WI), 2) water immersion for 30 min with thigh cuff inflation (250 mmHg) during initial 15 min to exclude legs from contributing to CBVE (WI+Occl), and 3) a seated nonimmersed control with 15 min of thigh cuff inflation (Occl). Plasma protein concentration and hematocrit decreased from 68 ± 1 to 64 ± 1 g/l and from 46.7 ± 0.3 to 45.5 ± 0.4% ( P < 0.05), respectively, during WI but were unchanged during WI+Occl. Left atrial diameter increased from 27 ± 2 to 36 ± 1 mm ( P < 0.05) during WI and increased similarly during WI+Occl from 27 ± 2 to 35 ± 1 mm ( P < 0.05). Central venous pressure increased from −3.7 ± 1.0 to 10.4 ± 0.8 mmHg during WI ( P < 0.05) but only increased to 7.0 ± 0.8 mmHg during WI+Occl ( P < 0.05). In conclusion, the dilution of blood induced by WI to the neck is caused by fluid from the legs, whereas the CBVE is caused mainly by blood from the abdomen.


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