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(Circulation Research. 1997;80:645-654.)
© 1997 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Increased Hepatocyte Permeability Surface Area Product for ⁸⁶Rb With Increase in Blood Flow

Carl A. Goresky¹, André Simard, , Andreas J. Schwab

From the McGill University Medical Clinic in the Montreal General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine and Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Abstract Liver cell recruitment (the equivalent of capillary recruitment in other organs) was explored by carrying out multiple indicator dilution experiments with labeled rubidium across the liver of the anesthetized dog under basal conditions and after bleeding with saline replacement infusion, which increases liver blood flow. A mixture of ⁵¹Cr-labeled red blood cells (a vascular reference), ²²Na (which immediately equilibrates in the extracellular space, the sum of the sinusoidal plasma and Disse or interstitial spaces, the expected distribution space for labeled rubidium in the absence of cellular entry), and ⁸⁶Rb was injected into the portal vein, and normalized outflow patterns, expressed as outflowing fractions of each injected tracer per milliliter versus time, were obtained. In relation to the labeled red blood cell curve, the labeled sodium curve is displaced by flow-limited distribution into the Disse or interstitial space; it is lower on the upslope, reaches a lower and delayed peak, and decays more slowly. The early part of the labeled rubidium curve lies within the labeled sodium curve; it reaches a much reduced peak, and the later return of tracer entering cells is so slow that it is obscured by recirculation. Modeling of the concentrative cellular uptake of rubidium from the Disse space provided an influx permeability surface area product for labeled rubidium. This increases with flow over the observed flow range, demonstrating that sinusoidal recruitment occurs with increase in hepatic blood flow.

Key Words: ⁸⁶Rb • hepatic blood flow • hepatic sinusoidal recruitment • capillary permeability

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