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  • Title: Ventilatory responses and blood gases in susceptible and resistant rats to high altitude.
    Author: Ou LC, Hill NS, Tenney SM.
    Journal: Respir Physiol; 1984 Nov; 58(2):161-70. PubMed ID: 6240751.
    Abstract:
    On exposure to a stimulated altitude of 5500 m (18 000 ft), the Hilltop (H) strain of Sprague-Dawley rats develops signs of chronic mountain sickness (CMS) (severe polycythemia, severe pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular hypertrophy) associated with a high mortality rate. In contrast, the Madison (M) strain of Sprague-Dawley rats remains healthy with less severe cardiopulmonary and hematological responses. We tested the hypothesis that hypoventilation in the H rats relative to the M rats, leading to greater alveolar hypoxia or hypoxemia, could account for the different hematological and cardiopulmonary responses between the two strains. Ventilatory responses and blood gases were compared under normoxia and acute and chronic hypoxia in fully awake and unrestrained animals of the two strains. There were no differences in VE, Pao2, PaCO2, pHa, P-vO2, PvCO2 and pH-v under either acute or chronic hypoxia between the two strains of rats. It is concluded that relative hypoventilation does not contribute to altitude susceptibility in H rats.
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