Why the study?
Does daily treadmill training reduce collateral flow resistance after femoral artery occlusion in cats?
Does daily treadmill training reduce collateral flow resistance after femoral artery occlusion in cats?
Exercise training significantly reduces collateral flow resistance following femoral artery occlusion in a feline model, indicating enhanced structural outgrowth of collateral vessels.
Supports exercise for collateral growth in feline ischemia models; hypothesis-generating and should not change human practice.
Flow resistance in the collateral vessels passing an occlusion of the femoral artery was determined 5 weeks after the occlusion in 24 cats kept in small cages and 21 cats trained daily on a treadmill. The collateral resistance was determined at maximal vasodilatation to reveal whether a structural outgrowth had taken place. Despite the occurrence of a pronounced “spontaneous” outgrowth of the colalteral vessels, it could be shwon that collateral resistance was 30 per cent less in the trained group. This difference was statistically highly significant (0.01>p>0.001). On the other hand, flow resistance in the vascular bed, distal to the occlusion, did not change after the arterial occlusion and was not affected by training
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Sanne et al. (1968) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 2 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: