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PubMed1998

Tumor growth modulation by sense and antisense vascular endothelial growth factor gene expression: effects on angiogenesis, vascular permeability, blood volume, blood flow, fluorodeoxyglucose uptake, and proliferation of human melanoma intracerebral xenografts.

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), also known as vascular permeability factor, has been investigated as a potent mediator of brain tumor angiogenesis and tumor growth. We evaluated the effect of VEGF expression on the pathophysiology of tumor growth in the brain. Human SK-MEL-2 melanoma cells, with minimal VEGF expression, were stably transfected with either sense or antisense mouse VEGF cDNA and used to produce intracerebral xenografts. Vascular permeability, blood volume, blood flow, and tumor fluorodeoxyglucose metabolism were assessed using tissue sampling and quantitative autoradiography. Tumor proliferation was assessed by measuring bromodeoxyuridine labeling indices. Tumor vascular density and morphological status of the blood-brain barrier were evaluated by immunohistochemistry. SK-MEL-2 cells transfected with sense VEGF (V+) expressed large amounts of mouse and human VEGF protein; V+ cells formed well-vascularized, rapidly growing tumors with minimal tumor necrosis. V+ tumors had substantial and significant increases in blood volume, blood flow, vascular permeability, and fluorodeoxyglucose metabolism compared to wild-type and/or V- (antisense VEGF) tumors. VEGF antisense transfected V- expressed no detectable VEGF protein and formed minimally vascularized tumors. V- tumors had a very low initial growth rate with central necrosis; blood volume, blood flow, vascular permeability, and glucose metabolism levels were low compared to wild-type and V+ tumors. A substantial inhibition of intracerebral tumor growth, as well as a decrease in tumor vascularity, blood flow, and vascular permeability may be achieved by down-regulation of endogenous VEGF expression in tumor tissue. VEGF-targeted antiangiogenic gene therapy could be an effective component of a combined strategy to treat VEGF-producing brain tumors.

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PubMed2002

Dynamic, contrast-enhanced CT of human brain tumors: quantitative assessment of blood volume, blood flow, and microvascular permeability: report of two cases.

We present two patients with metastatic brain tumors who underwent dynamic contrast-enhanced CT that yielded estimates of blood volume, blood flow, and microvascular permeability. For one patient, these CT-based quantifications were compared with contrast-enhanced MR-based assessments of fractional blood volume and permeability. Regional blood volume heterogeneity patterns were consistent between both CT- and MR imaging-based mapping. Permeability variations across the tumor, however, were less consistent, perhaps because of differences between ionic and non-ionic contrast agents. The advantages of dynamic contrast-enhanced CT in comparison with dynamic, contrast-enhanced MR imaging for microvascular quantifications are its availability and lower costs, applicability in the presence of MR imaging contraindications, and potentially more accurate analyses. The disadvantages are its limited anatomic coverage, radiation exposure, and the need for injection of a contrast agent.

Adenocarcinoma↗
PubMed1991

Plasma volumes, blood volumes, and plasma protein concentrations after moderate haemodilution with fluosol-DA or normal saline in the rat.

Plasma volumes, blood volumes, and plasma total protein, albumin, and bilirubin concentrations have been determined in rats for 72 h following 20 or 40 mL kg-1 haemodilution with Fluosol-DA or 0.9% NaCl. Haemodilution with 20 mL kg-1 of either haemodiluent had no influence on the measured values. Plasma and blood volumes did not change after Fluosol-DA haemodilution at 40 mL kg-1, but albumin and bilirubin concentrations were decreased for 72 h. Only bilirubin concentrations were decreased for 72 h following haemodilution with 40 mL kg-1 of 0.9% NaCl. It was concluded that changes in a drug's plasma protein binding, and not the plasma or blood volume, are responsible for the reported alterations in a drug's apparent volume of distribution after haemodilution.

Albumins↗
PubMed1986

The endocrine control of blood volume, blood pressure and sodium balance: atrial hormone and renin system interactions.

The atrial peptide hormone exhibits remarkable vasorelaxant, natriuretic and hypovolaemic actions, suggesting that it is part of a cardiovascular control mechanism which operates to regulate blood pressure, blood volume and sodium balance. In this endocrine control, the renin axis provides the primary defence against sodium volume depletion and hypotension while atrial hormone plays an increasingly active counter-role for coping with situations that involve a sodium-volume surfeit or rising blood volume or blood pressure levels. For this assignment, the atrial hormone acts in four different ways to counter or oppose the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axis. Thus, it promptly reduces renin secretion, it relaxes angiotensin-constricted vessels, it blocks angiotensin-induced aldosterone synthesis, and its natriuresis opposes aldosterone-induced sodium retention. Another special action of atrial hormone seems to be rapidly adjust central blood volumes by promoting the rapid transfer of fluid to the extracellular spaces. This hypovolaemic action probably reflects an action on capillary fluid exchange. It is reflected by a prompt and sustained rise in haematocrit levels. A similar action on the glomerular capillaries may be involved in causing natriuresis. These effects serve to rapidly decompress blood volumes and thereby reduce cardiac work. More work is needed to define the afferent stimuli to the right and left heart which elicit atrial hormone release. The possible role(s) of this new hormonal system in hypertensive and oedematous cardiovascular disorders also remains to be defined.

Angiotensin II↗
PubMed1978

[State of circulating blood volume, blood components and the function of external respiration in lung cancer].

The data concerning the changes in the circulating blood volume, globular and plasma volumes, red blood cells indices and also some indices of the external respiration function in lung cancer cases are set forth. Radiopneumography has permitted to find out some significant disorders in the regional ventilation and in the pulmonary blood flow in early postoperative period, which in case of hypoventilation is likely to cause a severe respiratory insufficiency and, therefore, requires an energetic therapeutic control.

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PubMed1987

Assessing blood volume, blood loss and blood replacement.

Blood volume has two components: red cell volume, which can be measured with reasonable precision, and plasma volume, which is more difficult to measure accurately. Measurement of blood loss is discussed with respect to clinical practice and research, and topical issues concerning blood replacement are reviewed.

Blood Transfusion↗
PubMed1977

Effects of subarachnoid hemorrhage on cerebral blood volume, blood flow, and oxygen utilization in humans.

Forty-five studies of regional cerebral blood volume (rCBV), regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF), and regional cerebral oxygen utilization (rCMRO2) were performed in 30 patients undergoing diagnostic cerebral angiography for evaluation of a subarachnoid hemorrhage due to a ruptured intracranial aneurysm. Tracer methods employing radioactive oxygen-15 were used to measure rCBV, rCBF, and rCMRO2. The patient studies were divided into groups based on their neurological status and the presence or absence of cerebral vasospasm. Subarachnoid hemorrhage, with and without vasospasm, produced significant decreases in CBF and CMRO2. In general, patients with more severe neurological deficits, and patients with more severe degrees of vasospasm, had a more marked depression of CBF and CMRO2. The most striking finding was a significant (p less than 0.001) increase in CBV (to 58% above normal) in patients with severe neurological deficits associated with severe cerebral vasospasm. This large increase suggests that cerebral vasospasm consists of constriction of the large, radiographically visible extraparenchymal vessels accompained by a massive dilation of intraparenchymal vessels.

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PubMed1984

Cerebral blood volume, blood flow, and oxygen metabolism in cerebral ischaemia and subarachnoid haemorrhage: an in-vivo study using positron emission tomography.

A characteristic sequence of metabolic and haemodynamic changes has been shown to occur in the brain as cerebral perfusion pressure is reduced in experimental animals. Increased cerebral blood volume (CBV) occurs initially, followed by a fall in blood flow (CBF) and, finally, a fall in oxygen metabolism (CMRO2). By measuring CBV, CBF, and CMRO2 with positron emission tomography in patients with vasospasm associated with subarachnoid haemorrhage and in patients with arteriosclerotic occlusion or stenosis of extraparenchymal cerebral arteries, we have demonstrated the presence of similar changes distal to such lesions in man. These findings suggest the presence of a local decrease in perfusion pressure. This study demonstrates the utility of positron emission tomography in the assessment of cerebral circulation and metabolism in man. Measurements of regional CBV must be included for a complete assessment of the dynamics of the cerebral circulation.

Blood Volume↗
PubMed1984

An experimental study of acute subarachnoid haemorrhage in baboons: changes in cerebral blood volume, blood flow, electrical activity and water content.

Subarachnoid haemorrhage following transection of the posterior artery was produced in 10 baboons. Cerebral blood volume (CBV) decreased transiently after subarachnoid haemorrhage. Two basic patterns of intracranial pressure (ICP) were observed; in one ICP returned to normal but in the other it remained elevated. In this latter group four out of five animals showed an increase in CBV above the original level. There were delays in sensory conduction (measured using somatosensory evoked potentials) bilaterally; those on the contralateral side to the bleed were correlated with ICP whereas other factors are implicated on the ipsilateral side. Initial flow reduction and restoration of cerebral blood flow were both correlated with water content.

Animals↗
PubMed1978

Plasma volume, blood volume and transcapillary escape rate (TER) of albumin in young spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) as compared with normotensive controls (NCR).

A detailed comparison of blood and plasma volumes and of the transcapillary escape rate (TER) of albumin was performed in SHR and matched NCR, particularly during the phase of rapid pressure rise in SHR. Throughout this early phase of life, the relative plasma and blood volumes tend to be lower, and TER higher in SHR, as would be expected when neurogenic mechanisms dominate the initiation of hypertension. Only in late established SHR hypertension, with increasing signs of cardiovascular complications, blood volume tends to be higher in SHR than in NCR. These results are in general agreement with most observations in early essential hypertension in man. They are of interest in contrast to recent findings in another variant of primary hypertension in rats, MHS. Also the apparently quite different initiating mechanisms in SHR and MHS primary hypertension are discussed.

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PubMed1975

Effects of increased intracranial pressure on cerebral blood volume, blood flow, and oxygen utilization in monkeys.

The relationship of cerebral blood volume (CBV) to cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP), cerebral blood flow (CBF), and the cerebral metabolic rate for oxygen (CMRO2) was examined in rhesus monkeys. In vivo tracer methods employing radioactive oxygen-15 were used to measure CBV, CBF, and CMRO2. Cerebral perfusion pressure was decreased by raising the intracranial pressure (ICP) by infusion of artificial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) into the cisterna magna. The production of progressive intracranial hypertension to an ICP of 70 torr (CPP of 40 torr) caused a rise in CBV accompanied by a steady CBF. With a further increase in ICP to 94 torr, CBV remained elevated without change while CBF declined significantly. Cerebral metabolic rate for oxygen did not change significantly during intracranial hypertension. For comparison, CPP was lowered by reducing mean arterial blood pressure in a second group of monkeys. Only CBF was measured in this group. In this second group of animals, the lower limit of CBF autoregulation was reached at a higher CPP (CPP approximately to 80 torr) than when an increase in ICP was employed (CPP approximately to 30 torr).

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PubMed2003

Examination of normalized pulse volume-blood volume relationship: toward a more valid estimation of the finger sympathetic tone.

The pulsatile ac component (DeltaI) superimposed on the transmitted dc components (I: tissue plus blood) are obtained from a near-infrared finger photoplethysmogram using a wavelength of 810 nm. Only the dc component is given in an ischaemic circulatory state (I(t): tissue only). Based on Lambert-Beer's law, normalized pulse volume (NPV; =DeltaI/I) and blood volume [BV; =ln(I(t)/I)] have recently been advocated as quantitative measures. In this study, the NPV-BV relationship was examined using the finger occlusion method during rest and mental arithmetic in 16 female undergraduates. Finger vascular tone during stress was evaluated by the distance of the linear and parallel NPV-BV regression lines (D(NB)) between rest and stress conditions. A reference standard was provided by the linear regression lines of compliance index (CI=NPV/pulse pressure) and BV to the transmural pressure. The estimates at 40 mmHg of transmural pressure, as an arbitrarily chosen reference point, were calculated (CI40 and BV40). D(NB) correlated well with them (r=0.81 and 0.94, respectively). The multiple regression with mean blood pressure indicated that the combination of D(NB) and the reactivities in heart period could explain approximately 50% of valiance in pressor response. In conclusion, D(NB) is easily obtainable from the NPV-BV function and seems to be more specific and valid than NPV as an index of finger sympathetic tone, since it adjusts the mechanical effect of arterial distending pressure.

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