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    Liver blood flow and oxygen consumption during hypocapnia and IPPV in the greyhound
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    Pentobarbital-anesthetized greyhounds were passively hyperventilated using intermittent positive-pressure breathing (IPPV) and the effects of raised airway pressure, accompanied by hypocapnia and then by normocapnia, on liver blood flow and oxygen consumption were studied. Electromagnetic flowmeters were used to measure hepatic arterial, portal venous, and splenic venous blood flow. Studies were carried out at three levels of raised airway pressure, both at normocapnia and hypocapnia. It was found that hypocapnic hyperventilation produced a decrease in portal venous and hepatic arterial blood flow. Normocapnic hyperventilation resulted in a restoration of portal venous blood flow but with a further decrease in hepatic arterial blood flow. A decrease in oxygen consumption with hypocapnia, returning to control values with normocapnia, was seen. It is suggested that the reduction in liver blood flow and oxygen consumption seen with passive hyperventilation is chiefly an effect of hypocapnia and is largely reversed by restoration of normocapnia.
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    Normocapnia
    Hypocapnia
    Arterial blood
    Venous blood
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    Normocapnia
    Hypocapnia
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    Normocapnia
    Hypocapnia
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    Hypocapnia
    Normocapnia
    Nitrous oxide
    Transcranial Doppler
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    Normocapnia
    Hypocapnia
    Nitrous oxide
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    Pulmonary O2 uptake (V(O₂p)) and leg blood flow (LBF) kinetics were examined at the onset of moderate-intensity exercise, during hyperventilation with and without associated hypocapnic alkalosis. Seven male subjects (25 ± 6 years old; mean ± SD) performed alternate-leg knee-extension exercise from baseline to moderate-intensity exercise (80% of estimated lactate threshold) and completed four to six repetitions for each of the following three conditions: (i) control [CON; end-tidal partial pressure of CO2 (P(ET, CO₂)) ~40 mmHg], i.e. normal breathing with normal inspired CO2 (0.03%); (ii) hypocapnia (HYPO; P(ET, CO₂) ~20 mmHg), i.e. sustained hyperventilation with normal inspired CO2 (0.03%); and (iii) normocapnia (NORMO; P(ET, CO₂) ~40 mmHg), i.e. sustained hyperventilation with elevated inspired CO2 (~5%). The V(O₂p) was measured breath by breath using mass spectrometry and a volume turbine. Femoral artery mean blood velocity was measured by Doppler ultrasound, and LBF was calculated from femoral artery diameter and mean blood velocity. Phase 2 V(O₂p) kinetics (τV(O₂p)) was different (P < 0.05) amongst all three conditions (CON, 19 ± 7 s; HYPO, 43 ± 17 s; and NORMO, 30 ± 8 s), while LBF kinetics (τLBF) was slower (P < 0.05) in HYPO (31 ± 9 s) compared with both CON (19 ± 3 s) and NORMO (20 ± 6 s). Similar to previous findings, HYPO was associated with slower V(O₂p) and LBF kinetics compared with CON. In the present study, preventing the fall in end-tidal P(CO₂) (NORMO) restored LBF kinetics, but not V(O₂p) kinetics, which remained 'slowed' relative to CON. These data suggest that the hyperventilation manoeuvre itself (i.e. independent of induced hypocapnic alkalosis) may contribute to the slower V(O₂p) kinetics observed during HYPO.
    Hypocapnia
    Normocapnia
    Respiratory alkalosis
    Alkalosis