2. Effects of chronic intermittent hypoxia on blood pressure and vascular remodeling
Xiaojun TANG ; Bin WANG ; Peiying HUANG ; Zhoutao GUO ; Qinglai TANG ; Shisheng LI ; Xinming YANG
Chinese Journal of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 2019;54(8):601-605
Objective:
To investigate blood pressure and vascular remodeling of OSAS by establishing the chronic-intermittent hypoxia model in rat.
Methods:
Experiments were performed on 35 adult male Sprague-Dawley rats. Animals were randomly divided into four groups: unhandled control group (with 5 rats in it), CIH group at 9/6/3 weeks (with 10 ratsin each group). Rats in CIH group went through 8-hour intermittent hypoxia everyday, and those in control group were raising normally. After 9-week experiment, blood pressure was measured. The changes of the following indexes were observed: pathological changes of aorta and the middle aorta thickness (HE staining), the collagen of aorta wall (Masson staining). The experimental data were analyzed by SPSS 24.0 statistical software. The variance was analyzed by one-way analysis of variance, and the irregularity was selected using the calibration