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J Appl Physiol 64: 1584-1590, 1988;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 64, Issue 4 1584-1590, Copyright © 1988 by American Physiological Society

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Chronic administration of sodium cyanate decreases O2 extraction ratio in dogs

A. R. Warley and G. Gutierrez
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston 77030.

It has been proposed that an increase in the affinity of hemoglobin for O2 may be beneficial in severe hypoxemia. To test this hypothesis, we compared the response to progressive hypoxemia in dogs with normal hemoglobin affinity (P50 = 32.4 +/- 0.7 Torr) to dogs with a left shift of the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve (P50 = 21.9 +/- 0.5 Torr) induced by chronic oral administration of sodium cyanate. Animals were anesthetized, paralyzed, and mechanically ventilated. The inspired O2 fraction was progressively lowered by increasing the inspired fraction of N2. The lowest level of O2 transport required to maintain base-line O2 consumption (VO2) was 9.3 +/- 0.8 ml.min-1.kg-1 for control and 16.5 +/- 1.1 ml.min-1.kg-1 for the sodium cyanate-treated dogs (P less than 0.01). Other measured parameters at this level of O2 transport were, for experimental vs. control: arterial PO2 19.3 +/- 2.4 (SE) Torr vs. 21.8 +/- 1.6 Torr (NS); arterial O2 content 10.0 +/- 1.2 ml/dl vs. 4.9 +/- 0.4 ml/dl (P less than 0.01); mixed venous PO2 14.0 +/- 1.5 Torr vs. 13.8 +/- 1.0 Torr (NS); mixed venous O2 content 6.8 +/- 1.0 ml/dl vs. 2.3 +/- 0.2 ml/dl (P less than 0.01); and O2 extraction ratio 32.7 +/- 2.8% vs. 51.2 +/- 3.8% (P less than 0.01). We conclude that chronic administration of sodium cyanate appears to be detrimental to O2 transport, since the experimental dogs were unable to increase their O2 extraction ratios to the same level as control, thus requiring a higher level of O2 transport to maintain their base-line VO2 values.


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