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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 292, Issue 6, Pages R2292-R2298Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00884.2006
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cardiac performance; cardiac preload; stroke volume; venous capacitance; (51)Chromium
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Many ectotherms regularly experience considerable short-term variations in environmental temperature, which affects their body temperature. Here we investigate the cardiovascular responses to a stepwise acute temperature increase from 10 to 13 and 16 degrees C in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Cardiac output increased by 20 and 31% at 13 and 16 degrees C, respectively. This increase was entirely mediated by an increased heart rate (f(H)), whereas stroke volume (SV) decreased significantly by 20% at 16 degrees C. The mean circulatory filling pressure (MCFP), a measure of venous capacitance, increased with temperature. Central venous pressure (P(ven)) did not change, whereas the pressure gradient for venous return (MCFP-P(ven)) was significantly increased at both 13 and 16 degrees C. Blood volume, as measured by the dilution of (51)Cr-labeted red blood cells, was temperature insensitive in both intact and splenectomized trout. This study demonstrates that venous capacitance in trout decreases, but cardiac filling pressure as estimated by P(ven) does not change when cardiac output increases during an acute temperature increase. SV was compromised as fH increased with temperature. The decreased capacitance likely serves to prevent passive pooling of blood in the venous periphery and to maintain cardiac filling pressure and a favorable pressure gradient for venous return.
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