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J Appl Physiol 59: 580-591, 1985;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 59, Issue 2 580-591, Copyright © 1985 by American Physiological Society

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Passage of uncharged dextrans from blood to lung lymph in awake sheep

P. N. Lanken, J. H. Hansen-Flaschen, P. M. Sampson, G. G. Pietra, F. R. Haselton and A. P. Fishman

To examine how molecular size alone influences the passage of macromolecules from the pulmonary microcirculation into lymph collected from the caudal mediastinal lymph node of the sheep, we infused polydisperse uncharged [3H]dextrans intravenously at a constant rate over a period of 7.5 h in nine awake sheep with lung lymph fistulas. Lymph and plasma were collected during hours 5.5-7.5 of the infusions, and the [3H]dextrans were separated by molecular sieve chromatography into fractions that ranged from 1.6 to 8.4 nm in effective molecular (Stokes-Einstein) radius. Lymph-to-plasma (L/P) ratios for [3H]dextrans were near 1.0 at 1.6-nm radius, decreased with increasing molecular size, and approached zero at radii above 5.0 nm. We confirmed that these L/P ratios represented steady-state values by extending the duration of the infusion to approximately 30 h in two of the nine sheep and finding that the L/P ratios remained unchanged. These results were consistent with molecular sieving through a homoporous membrane with cylindrical pores of 5.0-nm radius. We also found that the L/P ratio for albumin [0.76 +/- 0.13 (SE)] in five of the same sheep was much higher than that for the [3H]dextran fraction of the same effective molecular radius [0.11 +/- 0.02 (SE)]. These results suggest that the movement of macromolecules from the pulmonary microcirculation into pulmonary lymph collected from the caudal mediastinal node of the sheep is influenced by both molecular size and molecular charge and that, compared with uncharged dextrans, the steady-state passage of anionic endogenous proteins from plasma to lymph is enhanced.


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