Localized Oxygen Exchange Platform for Intravital Video Microscopy Investigations of Microvascular Oxygen Regulation

Sové, Richard J. and Milkovich, Stephanie and Nikolov, Hristo N. and Holdsworth, David W. and Ellis, Christopher G. and Fraser, Graham M. (2021) Localized Oxygen Exchange Platform for Intravital Video Microscopy Investigations of Microvascular Oxygen Regulation. Frontiers in Physiology, 12. ISSN 1664-042X

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Abstract

Intravital microscopy has proven to be a powerful tool for studying microvascular physiology. In this study, we propose a gas exchange system compatible with intravital microscopy that can be used to impose gas perturbations to small localized regions in skeletal muscles or other tissues that can be imaged using conventional inverted microscopes. We demonstrated the effectiveness of this system by locally manipulating oxygen concentrations in rat extensor digitorum longus muscle and measuring the resulting vascular responses. A computational model of oxygen transport was used to partially validate the localization of oxygen changes in the tissue, and oxygen saturation of red blood cells flowing through capillaries were measured as a surrogate for local tissue oxygenation. Overall, we have demonstrated that this approach can be used to study dynamic and spatial responses to local oxygen challenges to the microenvironment of skeletal muscle.

Item Type: Article
URI: http://research.library.mun.ca/id/eprint/15370
Item ID: 15370
Additional Information: Memorial University Open Access Author's Fund
Keywords: microcirculation, blood flow, oxygen transport, microfluidics, capillary, oxygen saturation, mathematical modeling
Department(s): Medicine, Faculty of > Biomedical Sciences
Date: 8 June 2021
Date Type: Publication
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.654928
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