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Published in final edited form as: Exp Neurol. 2011 Jun 13;231(1):97–103. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.05.020

Table 2.

Arterial blood gas and blood pressure measurements in anesthetized control and spinally contused rats at 2 weeks post-injury.


	Control	Injured
pH Baseline	7.38 ± 0.01	7.41 ± 0.01^*
Hypoxia	7.34 ± 0.01	7.40 ± 0.01^*
PaCO₂ mmHg Baseline	41 ± 1	34 ± 2^*
Hypoxia	40 ± 1	34 ± 1^*
PaO₂ mmHg Baseline	257 ± 5	268 ± 11
Hypoxia	38 ± 1^‡	37± 1^‡
MBP mmHg Baseline	125 ± 4	100 ± 8^*
Hypoxia	101 ± 5^‡	68 ± 9^*^‡

Pa, partial pressure in arterial blood; MBP, mean arterial blood pressure;

^*

, p<0.05 different to controls;

^‡

p<0.05 different to baseline value.