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The relation of blood flow stasis to the development of unequivocal histologic necrosis (loss of parietal cells from the column of contiguous cells) in ethanol-induced gastric mucosal injury was studied in anesthetized rats. The most rapid vascular change that occurred when the gastric mucosa was exposed to 100% ethanol was a severe segmental constriction of the large submucosal venules. At 22 sec, the average venular diameter was 52.2±6.0% of the original one. This was followed by complete superficial mucosal blood flow stasis at 49±4 sec and appearance of histologic evidence of necrosis in one of seven rats at 2.5 min, four of six rats at 10 min, and seven of seven rats at 60 min. We conclude that in ethanol-induced gastric mucosal injury, submucosal venular constriction occurs first, followed by cessation of mucosal blood flow to be followed later on with histologic evidence of necrosis.
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Bou-Abboud, C.F., Wayland, H., Paulsen, G. et al. Microcirculatory stasis precedes tissue necrosis in ethanol-induced gastric mucosal injury in the rat. Digest Dis Sci 33, 872–877 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01550978
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