PMID: 8967387Apr 1, 1996Paper

Parallel changes of blood flow and heterogeneity of capillary plasma perfusion in rat brains during hypocapnia

The American Journal of Physiology
J VogelW Kuschinsky

Abstract

Plasma perfusion patterns were investigated in brain capillaries during decreased cerebral blood flow induced by hyperventilation. Anesthetized rats were decapitated 3-4 s after being given an intravenous bolus injection of Evans blue dye. the measured steep increase of the arterial dye concentration at this moment ensures that different capillary plasma transit times are reflected in different intracapillary dye concentrations. The observed heterogeneity of capillary plasma transit time was expressed as the coefficient of variation (means +/- SD) of the intracapillary dye concentrations. For comparison, cerebral blood flow was determined at comparable PCO2 values in a second experimental group. At arterial PCO2 values between 40 and 25 mmHg, the cerebral blood flow and the coefficient of variation of the intracapillary dye concentration decreased with decreasing PCO2, whereas at PCO2 values <25 mmHg cerebral blood flow and coefficient of variation did not correlate with the arterial PCO2. However, it cannot be excluded that the coefficient of variation of the intracapillary dye concentration increases between 25 and 14 mmHg and decreases between 14 and 10 mmHg. It is concluded that the reduction of cerebral blood flow measured...Continue Reading

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