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Hemodynamic and ventilatory effects of skin-cooling in cattle

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Cooling the skin of cattle at an ambient temperature of 25°C decreased cardiac output and increased systemic and pulmonary vascular resistances. Minute ventilation was reduced by about 50%. There was no change in alveolar ventilation as measured by arterial blood gases. These results indicate that thermoregulatory ventilation has significant cardiopulmonary effects in cattle at normal laboratory temperatures.

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  1. Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory, University of Colorado Medical Center, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, 80220, Denver, Colorado, USA

    I. F. McMurtry, J. T. Reeves, D. H. Will & R. F. Grover

  2. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Colorado State University, 80521, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

    I. F. McMurtry, J. T. Reeves, D. H. Will & R. F. Grover

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Acknowledgments. We thankLinda Panepinto, Bea Kaplan andMary Munroe for technical assistance andDiann Smith for typing the manuscript. This work was supported by NIH grant No. HL 14985 and by a grant to Dr.Will from the Colorado Heart Association.

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McMurtry, I.F., Reeves, J.T., Will, D.H. et al. Hemodynamic and ventilatory effects of skin-cooling in cattle. Experientia 31, 1303–1304 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01945793

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