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  • Title: Fetal sheep adrenal blood flow responses to hypoxemia after splanchnicotomy using fluorescent microspheres.
    Author: Buchwalder LF, Lin M, McDonald TJ, Nathanielsz PW.
    Journal: J Appl Physiol (1985); 1998 Jan; 84(1):82-9. PubMed ID: 9451621.
    Abstract:
    Adrenal gland blood flow (ABF) increases during hypoxemia in fetal sheep, but regulation of ABF is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of splanchnic nerve section on fetal ABF responses to hypoxemia using the fluorescent microsphere (FM) technique. At 125 days of gestation, 14 unanesthetized fetal sheep [bilateral splanchnicotomy (Splx, n = 6) and control (Cont, n = 8)] were injected with FM before and at 60 min of N2-induced hypoxemia (approximately 40% decrease in fetal arterial PO2). Adrenal tissue and reference blood samples were digested and filtered, and FM dye was extracted for spectrometer analysis. Baseline whole, medullary, and cortical ABF for the Cont group were similar to published values using radioactive microspheres and did not differ from Splx values. Hypoxemia increased whole, medullary, and cortical ABF (mean +/- SE) from baseline for the Cont group by 281 +/- 35, 258 +/- 31, and 496 +/- 81% (P < 0.05). The increase for the Splx group was attenuated compared with the Cont group (P < 0.05) for whole and medullary ABF (139 +/- 27 and 43 +/- 27%) but not cortical ABF (326 +/- 91%). We conclude that 1) the FM technique is valid for measuring fetal ABF and 2) in fetal sheep the splanchnic nerve is not necessary to maintain basal ABF but plays an important role in regulating the hypoxemia-induced increase in ABF through the medullary, but not cortical, ABF response.
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