Ultrasound-enhanced diffusion through isolated frog skin |
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Authors: | AJ Mortimer BJ Trollope EJ Villeneuve OZ Roy |
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Institution: | National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OR6, Canada |
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Abstract: | The effect of ultrasound on the transport of oxygen across excised frog abdominal skin has been studied. Samples were mounted in an exposure chamber in which the Ringer's solution on one side was saturated with oxygen while the other side of the skin had a low initial oxygen concentration. They were treated with ultrasound at 1, 1.5 and 2 W cm−2 SATA c.w., respectively, and increases in the rate of oxygen transport were observed at all intensities. These increases ranged from 38 ± 4% at 1 W cm−2 to 55 ± 8% at 2 W cm−2. Variation in the pulse lengths from 25 to 200 ms and a constant average intensity did not affect the rate of transport significantly provided that the temporal intensity was constant. Since the peak acoustic pressure within the pulse increased with decreasing pulse length and increasing acoustic pressure increases the probability of cavitation occurring, the mechanism responsible for this phenomenon is probably not cavitation. |
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Keywords: | biological tissues oxygen transport frog skin |
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