AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 266, Issue 4 1558-H1564, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Protective role of NO in the regional hemodynamic changes during acute endotoxemia in rats

M. F. Mulder, A. A. van Lambalgen, E. Huisman, J. J. Visser, G. C. van den Bos and L. G. Thijs
Department of Clinical Chemistry, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The role of NO during the first hour of endotoxemia is still controversial. To evaluate whether NO is protective or detrimental to the regulation of systemic blood pressure, cardiac output (CO), and organ perfusion in rats during acute endotoxemia, we have studied the effects of inhibition of NO synthesis. Thirty minutes after 0.1 mg NG-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA; group L, n = 7, partial inhibition), 1 mg L-NNA (group H, n = 6, complete inhibition), or saline (group E, n = 7) intravenous infusion, anesthetized volume-loaded rats were infused with endotoxin Escherichia coli O127:B8 (8 mg.kg-1 x h-1) from time (t) = 0 to 60 min. Organ blood flow was measured with radioactive microspheres. In group H, at time 0, CO was lower than in group E (by -29%; P < 0.05), and systemic vascular resistance (SVR) was higher than in groups E and L (by 72 and 51%, respectively; P < 0.05). Perfusion of the pancreas, stomach, intestines, and kidney was lower (P < 0.05) and corresponding organ vascular resistance (OVR) higher (P < 0.05) in group H than in groups E and L (except kidney in group L). At t = 60 min, in groups H and L, CO was lower (by -45 and -26%, respectively; P < 0.05) and SVR was higher (by 112 and 54%, respectively; P < 0.05) than in group E. In group L only blood flow to the heart, pancreas, intestines, and kidney was significantly lower than in group E, and corresponding OVR was higher.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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