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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 284, Issue 1, Pages R233-R244Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00061.2002
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laser-Doppler flowmetry; pressure diuresis; renal blood flow; renal perfusion pressure; renal medulla
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We examined the extent of renal medullary blood flow (MBF) autoregulation in pentobarbital-anesthetized rabbits. Two methods for altering renal arterial pressure (RAP) were compared: the conventional method of graded suprarenal aortic occlusion and an extracorporeal circuit that allows RAP to be increased above systemic arterial pressure. Changes in MBF were estimated by laser-Doppler flowmetry, which appears to predominantly reflect erythrocyte velocity, rather than flow, in the kidney. We compared responses using a dual-fiber needle probe held in place by a micromanipulator, with responses from a single-fiber probe anchored to the renal capsule, to test whether RAP-induced changes in kidney volume confound medullary laser-Doppler flux (MLDF) measurements. MLDF responses were similar for both probe types and both methods for altering RAP. MLDF changed little as RAP was altered from 50 to greater than or equal to170 mmHg (24 +/- 22% change). Within the same RAP range, RBF increased by 296 +/- 48%. Urine flow and sodium excretion also increased with increasing RAP. Thus pressure diuresis/natriuresis proceeds in the absence of measurable increases in medullary erythrocyte velocity estimated by laser-Doppler flowmetry. These data do not, however, exclude the possibility that MBF is increased with increasing RAP in this model, because vasa recta recruitment may occur.
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