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Ventilatory response to severe acute hypoxia in guinea-pigs and rats with high hemoglobin-oxygen affinity induced by cyanate

  • Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

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Abstract

Baseline ventilation, hemoglobin concentration (Hb) and P50 were significantly lower in guinea-pigs than in rats. Chronic sodium cyanate (NaOCN) administration did not significantly increase hemoglobin concentration in either guinea-pigs or rats. It decreased the P50 significantly less in guinea-pigs than in rats. The high Hb-O2 affinity experimentally induced did not modify the hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) of guinea-pigs and rats. At the same level of acute hypoxia, HVR was significantly lower in NaOCN guinea-pigs than in NaOCN rats. Guinea-pigs, genotypically adapted animals to high altitude, displayed relatively minor ventilatory and Hb-O2 affinity changes to NaOCN, and a relatively minor HVR to acute hypoxia. They probably use tissue and biochemical adaptive mechanisms, in addition to their limited extracellular responses to successfully tolerate ambient hypoxia.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)675-680
Number of pages6
JournalComparative Biochemistry and Physiology -- Part A: Physiology
Volume109
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1994

Keywords

  • Altitude
  • Cyanate
  • Genetic adaptation
  • Guinea-pig
  • Hemoglobin-oxygen affinity
  • Hypoxia
  • Hypoxic ventilatory response
  • Ventilation

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