Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 60, Issue 1 266-274, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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Beta-adrenergic modulation of pulmonary transvascular fluid and protein exchange

F. L. Minnear, A. Johnson and A. B. Malik

We determined in anesthetized sheep whether isoproterenol, a beta-adrenergic agonist, prevents the increases in pulmonary fluid and protein exchange produced by thrombin-induced intravascular coagulation. Seven sheep were infused intravenously with 0.05 micrograms X kg-1 X min-1 isoproterenol before infusion of alpha-thrombin, and six sheep were infused with alpha-thrombin only and served as control subjects. The marked increases in pulmonary lymph flow and lymph protein clearance in the control thrombin group were attenuated (P less than 0.05) in the isoproterenol group in association with a higher pulmonary blood flow (P less than 0.05) and a lower pulmonary vascular resistance (P less than 0.05) in the isoproterenol group and with similar increases in pulmonary arterial and pulmonary arterial wedge pressures in both groups. The decreases in fluid and protein fluxes produced by isoproterenol are related to its beta-adrenergic properties because propranolol, a beta-adrenergic antagonist, blocked the protective effects of isoproterenol in a second group of sheep infused with propranolol, isoproterenol, and thrombin. Raising left atrial pressure to test for changes in vascular permeability increased protein flux to a much greater extent in the thrombin control group than in the isoproterenol group challenged with thrombin. The data suggest that isoproterenol attenuated the increase in fluid and protein fluxes produced by thrombin-induced intravascular coagulation by a permeability-decreasing mechanism.

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