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. 1988 Sep;403:27–39. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1988.sp017236

Circulatory effects of a depilatory dose of mouse epidermal growth factor in sheep.

N B Carter 1, A A Fawcett 1, J R Hales 1, G P Moore 1, B A Panaretto 1
PMCID: PMC1190700  PMID: 3267020

Abstract

1. Haemodynamic parameters and tissue blood flow rates were measured in two groups of five sheep infused I.V. for 24 h with either saline or 128.6 micrograms mouse epidermal growth factor (mEGF) kg-1 body weight. Measurements were made preinfusion and at +3, +12, +24, +27 and +48 h. We wished to assess relationships between blood flow rates and known functional changes in various organs during EGF treatment, especially any relationship between skin blood flow rate and the known depilatory effects of the protein in sheep. 2. Cardiac output increased and total peripheral resistance and mean arterial pressure decreased during and after infusion in the mEGF-treated group relative to the control group. 3. The greatest increase in blood flow rates occurred in woolled skin (+500%) during mEGF infusion, a result which in itself may have been disparate with the known depilatory effects of EGF. The mucosas of the alimentary tract (except abomasum) and the submaxillary and sublingual salivary glands also showed vasodilatation. 4. There were short-term increases in pituitary and adrenal gland blood flow that may have been associated with the corticotrophin-releasing factor properties of EGF. Flow in the thyroids showed the greatest increase post-infusion when thyroid hormone metabolism may have been reverting to normal. Blood flow rates decreased in the pancreas and perirenal fat. 5. Our general conclusion was that mEGF had specific vasodilator effects in the skin, the thyroid, submaxillary and sublingual glands and the mucosas of most of the alimentary tract.

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