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J Appl Physiol 62: 520-525, 1987;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 62, Issue 2 520-525, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of autonomic blockade on tracheobronchial blood flow

E. M. Baile, S. Osborne and P. D. Pare

Tracheobronchial blood flow increases two to five times in response to cold and warm dry air hyperventilation in anesthetized tracheostomized dogs. In this series of experiments we have attempted to attenuate this increase by blockade of the autonomic nervous system. Four groups of anesthetized, tracheostomized, open-chest dogs were studied. Group 1 (n = 5) were hyperventilated for 30 min with 1) warm humid [approximately 26 degrees C, 100% relative humidity, (rh)] air followed by bilateral vagotomy, 2) warm humid air, 3) cold (-22 degrees C, 0% rh) dry air, and 4) warm humid air. Groups 2, 3, and 4 (n = 3/group) were hyperventilated for 30 min with 1) warm humid (approximately 41 degrees C, 100% rh) air, 2) warm dry (approximately 41 degrees C) air, 3) warm humid air, and 4) warm dry air. Group 2 were controls. Group 3 were given phentolamine, 0.6 mg/kg intravenously, as an alpha-blockade, and group 4 were given propranolol, 1 mg/kg, as a beta-blockade after warm dry air hyperventilation (period 2). Five minutes before the end of each 30-min period of hyperventilation, measurements of vascular pressures, cardiac output, arterial blood gases, and inspired, body, and tracheal temperatures were measured, and differently labeled radioactive microspheres were injected into the left atrium to make separate measurements of airway blood flow. After the last measurements had been made animals were killed and their lungs were excised. Blood flow to the airways and lung parenchyma was calculated.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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