EFFECT OF BODY ORIENTATION ON REGIONAL LUNG EXPANSION IN DOG AND SLOTH
EFFECT OF BODY ORIENTATION ON REGIONAL LUNG EXPANSION IN DOG AND SLOTH
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DOI:
10.1152/jappl.1985.59.2.481
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
RITMAN, EL
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作者:
HOFFMAN, EA;RITMAN, EL
Using fast multisliced X-ray computed tomography, a ventral-dorsal gradient of fractional lung air content (3.29% air/cm lung height) in supine dogs and an essentially uniform ventral-dorsal air content distribution in the prone dogs [mean = 66 .+-. 0.6% (SE) or content] were demonstrated. Since the prone orientation is the dog''s normal body posture, an animal whose normal body posture was opposite to that of the dog was sought. Four 2-toed sloths were scanned in the Dynamic Spatial Reconstructor in the prone and supine postures. A supine fractional air content gradient was demonstrated with a regression equation of y = 2.09x + 74.3 (r = 0.92), where y is percent air content and x is vertical height in the lung, and ventral-dorsal air content distribution in the prone posture was uniform with a mean of 85 .+-. 0.4% (SE) air content. The low functional residual capacity lung density in the sloth was attributable to unusually large alveoli. The mean heart volume-to-body weight ratio in the dogs was 16.4 .+-. 0.6 (SE) ml/kg and that in the sloth was 7.3 .+-. 0.4 (SE) ml/kg. Mean lung volume-to-body weight ratios for dogs and sloths were 57 .+-. 7 (SE) and 89 .+-. 6 ml/kg, respectively. Large changes in prone vs. supine rib cage and diaphragm geometry found in dogs did not occur in sloths, though significant alterations of ventral and dorsal lung geometry prone vs. supine were demonstrated, and lung shape changes in both dog and sloth are attributable to shifts in the intrathoracic position of mediastinal structures.