The effect of insulin hypoglycaemia on blood flow in intact and sympathectomized extremities in man
The effect of insulin hypoglycaemia on blood flow in intact and sympathectomized extremities in man
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胰岛素低血糖对人类完整和交感神经切除四肢血流的影响
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1957
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A. Paton
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By M. J. Allwood;Jean Ginsburg;A. Paton
Peripheral circulatory changes during insulin hypoglycaemia were first studied in man by Lauter & Baumann (1929). They found that hypoglycaemia was associated with an increased fcrearm blood flow, as revealed by a diminished arteriovenous oxygen difference. Freeman, Smithwick & White (1934), using surface temperature measurements, showed that skin blood flow remained normal or raised in intact limbs, but decreased markedly during insulin hypoglycaemia in recently sympathectomized extremities. They attributed the latter to supersensitivity of the denervated structures to circulating adrenaline. Volume blood flow was first measured directly in patients undergoing insulin shock therapy by Abramson, Schkloven, Margolis & Mirsky (1939). Using the venous occlusion plethysmograph they found an increased blood flow to the forearm and calf, and, in the majority of subjects, an increased flow to the hand and foot. The latter was difficult to correlate with the idea that adrenaline release is responsible for cardiovascular changes during insulin hypoglycaemia (Cannon, McIver & Bliss, 1924; Houssay, Lewis & Mollinelli, 1924), for it is now known experimentally that adrenaline infusion in man is associated with a vasoconstriction in skin vessels (Barcroft & Swan, 1953). In view of these conflicting observations between experimental adrenaline infusions and peripheral circulatory changes attributed to adrenaline release it was decided to investigate the role of adrenaline and of sympathetic vasomotor activity in peripheral vascular responses to hypoglycaemia. A similar study has recently been made by French & Kilpatrick (1955). The observations of Ginsburg & Paton (1956) on hand and forearm flow during hypoglycaemia in bilaterally adrenalectomized subjects were a further stimulus to this study.