The effects of vitamin E and of methylene blue on the manifestations of oxygen poisoning in the rat

Taylor, D. W.

doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1956.sp005456

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“…and Taylor et al (33) has shown that vitamin E treatment of vitamin E-deficient rats significantly decreases lung damage in animals exposed to oxidant stress. Evidence that vitamin E ameliorates bronchopulmonary dysplasia in human infants has also been reported (7).…”

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Vitamin E Affects Lung Biochemical and Morphologic Response to Hyperoxia in the Newborn Rabbit

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Pediatr Res

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Summary MATERIALS A N D M E T H O D Shr. I n the group treated with oxygen plus vitamin E, the lungs were similar to room air controls (82.6% normal). This study thus provides further evidence for a direct antioxident affect of vitamin E in lung. SpeculationThese findings provide further evidence of antioxidant protection of lung by vitamin E and suggest that the antioxidant effect of vitamin E may involve an inactivation of the probable stimulus for antioxidant enzyme induction, oxygen-free radicals.

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Vitamin E Affects Lung Biochemical and Morphologic Response to Hyperoxia in the Newborn Rabbit

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“…The femoral arteries were then cannulated with polythene tubing, as was the right atrium via the right jugular vein, the animal was placed in the pressure chamber, and the appropriate connexions made to recording and sampling apparatus. The method of compression was as has already been described (Taylor, 1956).Heart rate, mean arterial blood pressure, respiration, body temperature and blood pH were recorded as described by Taylor (1958). In the first seven experiments the recorded pH was that of the femoral arterial blood; thereafter, it was that of the mixed venous blood drawn from the right atrium.…”

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Changes in cardiac and respiratory function, and in blood carbon dioxide pressure and pH, in cats exposed to oxygen under high pressure

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1960

The Journal of Physiology

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Earlier experiments on rats (Taylor, 1958) showed that on exposure to pure oxygen under a pressure of 6 atmospheres, slowing of the heart and of respiration took place much earlier when the rats were anaesthetized with chloralose than when barbiturate was the anaesthetic. There was evidence, too, that such slowing was accompanied by a fall in pH of the arterial blood, but there was no evidence of a rise in C02 pressure before the onset of cardiac or respiratory failure.These experiments suffered from the disadvantages that the rats underwent a fairly rapid and considerable fall in body temperature, that the size and frequency of blood samples were strictly limited and that only arterial blood was sampled. It was desirable therefore to repeat and extend the work on larger animals such as cats. METHODSYoung cats of both sexes (av. wt. 1-50 kg) were used in all experiments and were anaesthetized by an intraperitoneal injection of either an aqueous solution of 1 % chloralose and 10% urethane (1 ml./100 g body wt.) or with pentobarbitone sodium B.P. (Veterinary Nembutal; Abbott Laboratories Ltd.; 50 mg/100 g body wt.).Any such procedures as vagotomy and section of sinus nerves were then carried out before heparin dissolved in 0-9 % NaCl solution (5000 i.u./ml.) was injected intravenously (0.5 ml./kg body wt.). The femoral arteries were then cannulated with polythene tubing, as was the right atrium via the right jugular vein, the animal was placed in the pressure chamber, and the appropriate connexions made to recording and sampling apparatus. The method of compression was as has already been described (Taylor, 1956).Heart rate, mean arterial blood pressure, respiration, body temperature and blood pH were recorded as described by Taylor (1958). In the first seven experiments the recorded pH was that of the femoral arterial blood; thereafter, it was that of the mixed venous blood drawn from the right atrium.Blood samples were collected and analysed for total COs and 02. The CO2 pressure was calculated as in the earlier experiments, using the form of the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation and the tables given by Severinghaus, Stupfel & Bradley (1956a, b). A series of both arterial and right atrial samples could be collected in any experiment, but in any one experiment the pH could be recorded, and thus the CO2 presure calculated, for one type of sample only. A rapid flow of blood through the chamber containing the glass electrode permitted the pH to be recorded at a blood temperature not significantly different from

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“…In the earlier part of many experiments, periods of hyperpnoea of varying duration were very obvious. The degree of pulmonary damage was no greater, on the average, than that found in unanaesthetized animals, but the average duration of exposure to oxygen was very much longer than that for which intact unanaesthetized rats can be exposed without convulsions and death (Taylor, 1956(Taylor, , 1958). However, it was obvious that the degree of lung damage was much greater than average in those animals anaesthetized with chloralose and urethane and given, in addition, atropine.…”

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Changes in cardiac and respiratory rates, and in carbon dioxide pressure and pH of arterial blood, in anaesthetized rats exposed to oxygen under high pressure

The effects of vitamin E and of methylene blue on the manifestations of oxygen poisoning in the rat

Cited by 40 publications

References 13 publications

Vitamin E Affects Lung Biochemical and Morphologic Response to Hyperoxia in the Newborn Rabbit

Vitamin E Affects Lung Biochemical and Morphologic Response to Hyperoxia in the Newborn Rabbit

Changes in cardiac and respiratory function, and in blood carbon dioxide pressure and pH, in cats exposed to oxygen under high pressure

Changes in cardiac and respiratory rates, and in carbon dioxide pressure and pH of arterial blood, in anaesthetized rats exposed to oxygen under high pressure

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