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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 259: H448-H456, 1990;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 259, Issue 2 448-H456, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Can pulsed Doppler technique measure changes in aortic blood flow in conscious rats?

S. M. Gardiner, A. M. Compton, T. Bennett and C. J. Hartley
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

To determine whether the pulsed Doppler (PD) system could be used to measure cardiac output we compared estimates of changes in aortic flow obtained from PD or electromagnetic (EM) probes on the ascending aorta in separate groups of conscious Long-Evans and Brattleboro rats under a variety of conditions. EM probes showed significant increases and decreases in aortic blood flow after administration of nitroprusside or methoxamine, respectively, but 20-MHz PD probes connected to a PD mainframe with a pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 62.5 kHz showed no systematic changes in Doppler shift, due to "aliasing" of the Doppler signal. Aortic blood flow was significantly increased with intravenous volume expansion or isoprenaline administration, but these changes were not reliably detected by PD probes operating in a system with a PRF of 62.5 kHz. Calculation of expected peak Doppler shift signals from the phasic EM flow signal showed that these exceeded the Nyquist limit (PRF/2, i.e., 31.25 kHz) for the commercially available pulsed Doppler system. However, a modified pulsed Doppler module capable of resolving aliases and operating at a PRF of 125 kHz produced reliable results for changes in thoracic aortic Doppler shift, in good agreement with the EM probe data. In addition, placement of a cuff around the thoracic aorta did not alter cardiac baroreflex sensitivity.


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