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Quantitative analysis of the acute response to haemorrhage of the renin-angiotensin-vasoconstrictor feedback loop in areflexic dogs. Cardiovasc Res 1975 Nov;9(6):722-33

Date

11/11/1975

Pubmed ID

1203912

DOI

10.1093/cvr/9.6.722

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85047679771 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   16 Citations

Abstract

The importance of the renin-angiotensin-vasoconstrictor system during haemorrhagic hypotension was quantitated in 44 areflexic dogs by determining the ability of the arterial pressure to recover following haemorrhage to 8.8 kPa (66 mm Hg). In 30 animals with intact kidneys, the arterial pressure following haemorrhage rose to a new steady-state level averaging 11.7 kPa (88 mm Hg), which represented 65.3 +/- 1.8 (SE) % compensation. In 18 nephrectomized animals only 24.4 +/- 1.5% compensation occurred. The system exhibited a relatively rapid time course for pressure compensation with the new steady state occurring 19.2 +/- 2.0 min after haemorrhage. Following reinfusion of blood the pressure returned to the pre-haemorrhage in 19.2 +/- 3.0 min. Arterial renin activity was significantly elevated following haemorrhage in the intact kidney group and unchanged in the anephric group. The arterial pressure compensation of two animals with intact kidneys was significantly reduced when the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (SQ 20881) was infused before the haemorrhage. The results are consistent with a renin-angiotensin-vasoconstrictor mechanism of arterial pressure compensation and indicate that this mechanism possesses sufficient gain and time response characteristics to play a homeostatically significatn role during haemorrhagic hypotension.

Author List

Brough RB Jr, Cowley AW Jr, Guyton AC

Author

Allen W. Cowley Jr PhD Professor in the Physiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Angiotensin II
Animals
Blood Pressure
Blood Transfusion, Autologous
Dogs
Feedback
Female
Hemorrhage
Kidney
Male
Nephrectomy
Norepinephrine
Reflex
Renin
Teprotide
Time Factors