AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 257, Issue 6 1798-H1803, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Increased myocardial infarct size because of reduced coronary collateral blood flow in beagles

N. Uemura, D. R. Knight, Y. T. Shen, J. Nejima, M. V. Cohen, J. X. Thomas Jr and S. F. Vatner
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.

Effects of permanent left circumflex coronary artery occlusion (CAO) were examined in conscious purebred beagles and mongrel dogs, instrumented with miniature left ventricular (LV) pressure gauges, wall thickness gauges in the ischemic zone, catheters in left atrium and aorta, and snares around the left circumflex coronary artery. Blood flow was measured using the radioactive microsphere technique before CAO and at 5 min, 1, 3, and 24 h after CAO. Although CAO reduced myocardial blood flow similarly in beagles and mongrels, significantly less (P less than 0.05) recovery of myocardial blood flow was observed over the following 24-h period in beagles. Infarct size, as determined by triphenyltetrazolium chloride and expressed as percentage of area at risk, was larger (P less than 0.05) in beagles (62.0 +/- 5.1%) than mongrels (42.5 +/- 4.2%). Thus beagles do not tolerate ischemia as well as mongrel dogs and possess fewer functional coronary collaterals resulting in larger infarcts after CAO.

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