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(Stroke. 1975;6:630.)
© 1975 American Heart Association, Inc.

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The Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow in the Rat

AKIRA MATSUMOTO M.D.¹; RICHARD NAMON ²; YOHICHI UTSUNOMIYA M.D.²; KYUYA KOGURE M.D.²; PERITZ SCHEINBERG M.D.²; OSCAR M. REINMUTH M.D.²

¹ Department of Neurological Surgery, Okayama University Medical School, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama City, 700 Japan
² Cerebral Vascular Disease Research Center, Department of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 520875, Biscayne Annex, Miami, Florida 33152

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Cerebral blood flow (CBF) was determined in the rat under 70% nitrous oxide anesthesia and pentobarbital anesthesia. The application of the Fick principle technique of Kety et al. was modified utilizing ¹²³Xe infused intravenously steadily for 30 seconds, at which time the animal was decapitated and the head frozen in liquid nitrogen. A prior femoral artery to femoral vein shunt was led through a polyethylene catheter of 0.13 ml volume. This catheter passed as a coil in a Nal crystal well-counter with the arterial ¹³³Xe concentration curve recorded by a ratemeter-recordcr system. The results of the hemispheric blood flow (HBF) were: under 70% nitrous oxide anesthesia in normocapnia (Paco, 38 mm Hg), 86 ± 15 ml/100 gm per minute; with hypocapnia (Paco, 20 mm Hg), 40 ± 5 ml/100 gm per minute; with hypercapnia (Paco, 63 mm Hg), 187 ± 10 ml/100 gm per minute; and with pentobarbital anesthesia (Paco, 38 mm Hg), 41 ± 8 ml/100 gm per minute.

Key Words: regional cerebral blood flow • ¹³³Xe • nitrous oxide • pentobarbital • hypercapnia • hypocapnia