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The appearance rate of antipyrine in intestinal venous blood was measured in anesthetized rats during perfusion (0.2 ml/min) of a buffered solution with 1 mmol/l labeled antipyrine through a jejunal, ileal, or colonic segment (length: 2–5 cm). When the blood flow rate was increased from 0.9–1.2 to 1.6–2.0 ml min−1 g−1 by raising the systemic blood pressure from 80 to 130 mm Hg, the absorption of antipyrine increased only in the colon. Stepwise reduction of the blood flow rate from 1.4–1.7 to 0.2–0.3 or stepwise raise from 0.2–0.3 to 1.4 ml min−1 g−1 by constriction or release of the mesenteric artery decreased or increased the absorption rate of antipyrine. The relation between absorption and flow rate can be described by curves which ascend at low and level off into a horizontal section at high flow rates. At the same blood flow rate the regional absorption rate decreased in the order jejunum, ileum, and colon with the largest step between ileum and colon. Model analysis yielded the following results for jejunum, ileum, and colon, respectively: permeability-surface area product 0.083, 0.074, and 0.037 ml min−1 g−1; fraction of absorptive site blood flow rate 0.24, 0.19, 0.08. The differences can be attributed mainly to the change of the surface area from jejunum to ileum and colon.
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Schulz, R., Winne, D. Relationship between antipyrine absorption and blood flow rate in rat jejunum, ileum, and colon. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch Pharmacol 335, 97–102 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00165043
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