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Spatial heterogeneity of mucosal blood flow during ischemia-reperfusion injury of rat stomach investigated by laser Doppler perfusion imaging

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Spatial alterations in blood flow during the development of mucosal injury induced by ischemia-reperfusion in rats were determined with a two-dimensional laser Doppler tissue perfusion imager. The rats were anesthetized with pentobarbital, and the stomach was exteriorized on a stage; the mucosa was then sequentially scanned. The mucosa was constantly superfused with 0.1N HCl in physiological saline. Systemic arterial pressure was continuously monitored and blood was stepwisely withdrawn from the femoral artery by 20-mmHg stage and then maintained at 20 mmHg for 20 min. The shed blood was reinfused and the stomach was removed 30 min later. Under control conditions, the average perfusion of the forestomach was usually greater than that in the glandular stomach. When systemic blood pressure was stepwisely decreased, the extent of decrease in the mucosal blood perfusion unit was always greater than that in systemic blood pressure, but mucosal perfusion appeared to be uniformly decreased throughout the stomach. Ten min after reperfusion, a hypoperfused area began to appear in the corpus near the greater curvature, and this area subsequently increased. The area of ulcer formation corresponded with the hypoperfused area in the gastric mucosa 30 min after reperfusion. Pretreatment with CV-6209, a platelet-activating factor antagonist, significantly attenuated the hypoperfusion induced by reperfusion and also prevented gastric mucosal damage. Our results suggest that hypoperfusion in the mucosal microcirculation is indeed an important factor contributing to the localized occurrence of gastric mucosal lesions and that the laser Doppler perfusion imager is useful for the detection of local hypoperfused areas in the gastric mucosa.

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    Soichiro Miura, Dai Fukumura, Iwao Kurose, Hiroyuki Kimura, Masayuki Suzuki, Tetsuo Morishita, Hiroshi Nagata, Masaharu Tsuchiya & Hiromasa Ishii

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Miura, S., Fukumura, D., Kurose, I. et al. Spatial heterogeneity of mucosal blood flow during ischemia-reperfusion injury of rat stomach investigated by laser Doppler perfusion imaging. J Gastroenterol 30, 279–286 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02347500

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