Endometrial blood flow in rats.
The endometrial blood flow was measured in rats by injections of 85Kr saline into aorta and measurements of the clearance of the radioactivity by a Geiger-Müller probe situated in the uterine lumen. Estrus and diestrus were determined by vaginal smears. The endometrial blood flow was found to be 0.88 +/- 0.08 (mean +/- SEM) ml/g tissue/min in estus and 1.60 +/- 0.15 mg/g/min in diestrus. The experiment indicates that the endometrial blood flow and the total uterine blood flow change in opposite directions during the estrous cycle.
D000818:Animals; D004031:Diestrus; D004717:Endometrium / Q000098:blood supply*; D004971:Estrus; D005260:Female; D007700:Kinetics; D007726:Krypton; D011247:Pregnancy; D051381:Rats; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D014626:Vaginal Smears; D014978:Xenon
D014978:Xenon; D007726:Krypton