Comparison of microspheres and 86Rb+ as tracers of the distribution of cardiac output in rats indicates invalidity of 86Rb+-based measurements
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
- Vol. 56 (1), 97-109
- https://doi.org/10.1139/y78-014
Abstract
The technique of using .gamma.-labeled plastic microspheres (15 .+-. 5 .mu.m) to measure cardiac output (CO) and its fractional distribution (FD) to individual tissues and organs was judged by various criteria to give valid data when applied to barbital-sedated warm-acclimated or cold-acclimated (CA) white rats, which were either resting or responding calorigenically to infused noradrenaline [norepinephrine] (NA). The FD of CO to each of 16 tissues or organs of CA rats at rest or responding to NA was then estimated with 86Rb+ and microspheres, the 2 tracers being injected simultaneously. For only 7 of the tissues examined in resting rats and only 1 in NA-infused rats was the FD of CO estimated with 86Rb+ not significantly different from that estimated with microspheres. 86Rb+ to microsphere ratios of the FD of CO to individual tissues ranged from 3.5 and 3.0 for liver and skeletal muscle, respectively, to 0.09 and 0.07 for brown adipose tissue (BAT) and brain. Since microsphere-based estimates of blood flow to the interscapular BAT of CA rats responding to NA were corroborated by direct measurements of venous efflux from the tissue, it is unequivocal that the 86Rb+-based estimate of the fraction of CO directed to interscapular BAT was highly erroneous. The uptake of 86Rb+ by a tissue frequently does not provide a valid measure of the FD of CO to the tissue. Some of the factors that are likely responsible for this situation are discussed, and it is suggested that only by a fortuitous combination of circumstances does the uptake of 86Rb+ by a tissue sometimes match the FD of CO to the tissue.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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