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J Appl Physiol 70: 1586-1592, 1991;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 70, Issue 4 1586-1592, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of changing venoarterial pH difference on in vivo arterial pH

E. Takahashi and E. A. Phillipson
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Plasma pH has been postulated to change slowly in blood leaving the pulmonary capillaries because of the uncatalyzed dehydration of CO2. If so, there could be a difference between in vivo and in vitro arterial pH, the magnitude of which would be dependent on the venoarterial pH difference (v-aDpH). We tested this hypothesis in anesthetized dogs by changing v-aDpH by airway CO2 loading and by comparing arterial pH measured in vivo by a rapidly responding intravascular pH electrode with that measured in vitro by a conventional glass electrode. Using a multiple regression analysis, we found a small but significant contribution of venous pH to in vivo arterial pH, with a regression coefficient of 0.0718 (P less than 0.0001), suggesting a postcapillary increase of in vivo arterial pH. When carbonic anhydrase was inhibited by the administration of acetazolamide, the effect of venous pH on arterial pH was abolished, and a unique relationship between in vivo and in vitro arterial pH was established (regression coefficient 1.02; P greater than 0.05, comparison with unity). These results could be accounted for in a computer simulation of gas exchange among alveolus, plasma, and erythrocyte. We conclude that there exists a small but measurable postcapillary increase in arterial pH.


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