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Abstract:
Apnoeic left lower lobes of dog lungs were inflated by increasing alveolar pressure or decreasing pleural pressure, or the lobes were collapsed and exposed to decreasing pleural pressure with the bronchus occluded. Under each of these conditions the lobe could be made 'hypoxic' by perfusion with mixed venous blood or 'normoxic' by perfusion with systemic arterial blood. Inflation of the lobes diminished the hypoxic presor response. The relative influence of decreasing pleural pressure on inflated and collapsed lobes was such that at low pleural pressures resistance to flow through the hypoxic atelectatic lobe was no greater than that through the inflated normoxic lobe. The results indicated that the level of lung inflation can alter the effectiveness of the hypoxic pressor response in reducing perfusion to underventilated regions.
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