Peripheral Blood Flows During Colorectal Distension in Anaesthetised Dogs

Overview

Journal Pflugers Arch

Specialty Physiology

Date 1993 Sep 1

PMID 8255732

Authors

A Cevese

R Grasso

R Poltronieri

F Schena

G Vacca

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Abstract

Distension of the descending colon elicits reflex cardiovascular responses, including increases in heart rate and arterial blood pressure. To study the relative contribution of vasoconstriction in individual vascular beds to this reflex response, experiments were performed on seven dogs anaesthetised with chloralose and instrumented with electromagnetic flowmeters around the superior mesenteric, the left renal and the left external iliac arteries. The colorectal portion of the intestine was distended at constant pressure (36.6 mm Hg, 4.9 kPa mean; range 25-50 mm Hg, 3.3-6.7 kPa) with warm Ringer solution for periods of 2 min. After a set of control distensions, the experiments were performed whilst the reflex rise in arterial pressure was prevented by removal of blood from the arterial tree. In control distensions arterial pressure increased by 11.3 +/- 1.5 mm Hg, 1.51 +/- 0.12 kPa (mean +/- SEM). In distensions at constant arterial pressure, peripheral blood flows were altered to different extents in the three territories studied: vascular resistance increased by 30.8 +/- 5.6% (P < 0.01) in the mesenteric, by 4.1 +/- 1.5% (P < 0.03) in the renal, and by 15.2 +/- 6.8% (NS) in the external iliac bed. We conclude that colorectal distension may reflect activation of a function-specific pathway of the sympathetic nervous system, which leads to much greater vasoconstriction in the splanchnic circulation than in renal or musculocutaneous circulations.

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