Intrinsic tone of cerebral artery segments of human infants between 23 weeks of gestation and term

Pediatric Research
R D BevanJ A Bevan

Abstract

Segments of basilar and middle cerebral arteries of eight human preterm and early postnatal infants have been examined using the resistance artery myograph technique for wire-mounted segments and the pressure perfusion arteriograph. Myograph-mounted segments spontaneously developed tone of varying duration and time course. Perfused segments showed maintained tone levels of approximately 40% of maximum possible constriction when the intraluminal pressure was 60 mm Hg. This level is not different from that found in adult human pial arteries of similar lumen diameter. Indomethacin (10[-5] M) either initiated tone increase or potentiated existing tone in the isometrically mounted segments. After washout of vasoconstrictors norepinephrine (10[-6] M) and angiotensin II (10[-8] M), indomethacin caused a pronounced, long lasting increase in basal tone. Spontaneous tone was reversed by acetylcholine (10[-6] M), isoproterenol (10[-8] to 10[-5] M), histamine (10[-8] to 10[-5] M), and papaverine (10[-5] M). Low levels of tone were increased and higher levels decreased by intraluminal flow. The pressure/diameter curves of these vessels were of similar shape as those of the equivalent size in the adult. It is concluded that intrinsic tone is...Continue Reading

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