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Departments of Physiology & Biophysics/Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
Submitted 12 May 2003 ; accepted in final form 2 September 2003
Experiments were carried out in conscious, chronically instrumented lambs (n = 8) and young adult sheep (n = 11) to investigate age-dependent renal responses to hemorrhage. Various parameters of renal function were measured for 1 h before and 1 h after either 10% hemorrhage (experiment 1) or 20% hemorrhage (experiment 2). The two experiments were carried out in random order at intervals of 2-5 days. There were no effects of 10-20% hemorrhage on renal plasma flow in either age group. Blood pressure decreased after 20% but not 10% hemorrhage in both age groups. Glomerular filtration rate and filtration fraction decreased after 20% hemorrhage in both age groups, the decrease being greater in lambs than young adult sheep. In response to 20% hemorrhage, urinary flow rate and urinary Na+ excretion rate decreased by 40 min after hemorrhage in young adult sheep but not lambs and remained decreased for 60 min; urinary chloride excretion rate showed a similar response. In lambs but not young adult sheep, free water clearance increased by 20 min after 20% hemorrhage and remained above control at 60 min. Urinary osmolality decreased at 20 min after 20% hemorrhage in young adult sheep but not lambs, returning to control levels by 40 min. These data provide new information that renal responses to hypotensive hemorrhage appear to be developmentally regulated.
renal function; glomerular filtration rate; sodium excretion; newborn; perinatal
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