AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 260, Issue 6 1077-R1081, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Arginine vasopressin responses to hypoxia and hypercapnia in late-gestation fetal sheep

H. Raff, C. W. Kane and C. E. Wood
Department of Physiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville 32610.

The purpose of this study was to determine the interaction of hypoxia and hypercapnia in the control of arginine vasopressin (AVP) secretion in fetal sheep and to determine the role of the peripheral arterial chemoreceptors in that response. We measured the plasma AVP response to hypercapnia and/or hypoxia in catheterized intact or sinoaortic-denervated fetal sheep between 123 and 144 days of gestation. Ewes were exposed to the following inspired gases: two successive 30-min periods of normocapnic normoxia, 30 min of normocapnic normoxia followed by 30 min of normocapnic hypoxia, two successive 30-min periods of hypercapnic normoxia, or 30 min of hypercapnic normoxia followed by 30 min of hypercapnic hypoxia (i.e., asphyxia). Hypercapnia per se had no significant effect on fetal plasma AVP. Normocapnic hypoxia per se resulted in a significant increase in fetal plasma AVP. Although hypercapnia resulted in a significant acidemia, the decrease in arterial pH was more marked under hypoxic conditions. Hypercapnia/acidemia augmented the AVP response to hypoxia. Fetal sinoaortic denervation did not significantly attenuate any of the AVP responses. We conclude that hypercapnia augments the fetal AVP response to hypoxia and that the AVP response to neither normocapnic nor hypercapnic hypoxia is dependent on afferent information carried in the carotid sinus or aortic nerves.

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