Optical dynamic imaging of the regional blood flow in the rat mesentery under the effect of noradrenalin

The regional blood flow in the rat mesentery under the effect of noradrenalin is monitored using the laser speckle imaging method. The results show that at the third minute of application of noradrenalin, the blood flow begins to decrease, and the venule blood flow decreases more rapidly than that in the arteriole. Five minutes later blood flow in part of blood vessels begins to resume and the blood flow in the arteriole recovers more quickly than that in the venule. These suggest that laser speckle imaging can obtain the temporal-spatial characteristic of blood flow in mesentery without the need of scanning. It provides a new approach for investigating the change of regional blood flow in the mesentery in microcirculation studies.