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J Appl Physiol 63: 2208-2215, 1987;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 63, Issue 6 2208-2215, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Moderate hypoxia: reactivity of pial arteries and local effect of theophylline

C. Haller and W. Kuschinsky
Department of Physiology, University of Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany.

The reactivity of pial arteries to the perivascular microapplication of artificial cerebrospinal fluids with mounting concentrations of adenosine (10(-11)-10(-3) M), K+ (0-10 mM), and H+ (pH 5.1-7.6) was determined in chloralose-anesthetized ventilated cats during normoxic control conditions and during moderate normocapnic arterial hypoxia (arterial Po2 47 Torr). Hypoxia induced a significant mean pial arterial dilatation of 18-29% in the various types of experiments. The pial arterial reactivity to each of the tested factors remained unchanged during hypoxia compared with normoxia. The hypoxic vasodilatation could not be reduced by the perivascular microapplication of theophylline (10(-5) and 5 X 10(-5) M). Systemic theophylline (50-75 mumol/kg, iv), regardless of whether given during or before hypoxia, did not attenuate the hypoxic vasodilatation, although it blocked dilatations induced by the perivascular microapplication of adenosine during normoxia. The present study shows that 1) local metabolic factors are vasoactive during moderate hypoxia; therefore they could mediate the hypoxic dilatation of brain vessels; 2) systemic theophylline can block vascular adenosine receptors; 3) since local theophylline had no effect on the hypoxic dilatation of pial arteries, adenosine may not be the main causative factor for the hypoxic hyperemia.


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