Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 60, Issue 2 576-589, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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Role of circulating granulocytes in sheep lung injury produced by phorbol myristate acetate

E. L. Dyer and J. R. Snapper

Phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) and endotoxin cause pulmonary granulocyte sequestration and alteration in lung fluid and solute exchange in awake sheep that are felt to be analogous to the adult respiratory distress syndrome in humans. The basic hypothesis that PMA causes lung injury by activating circulating granulocytes has never been tested. The effects of infused PMA on lung mechanics and the cellular constituents of lung lymph have also not been reported. We therefore characterized the effects of intravenous PMA, 5 micrograms/kg, on lung mechanics, pulmonary hemodynamics, lung fluid and solute exchange, pulmonary gas exchange, blood and lymph leukocyte counts, and plasma and lymph cyclooxygenase products of arachidonate metabolism in 10 awake sheep with normal granulocyte counts and after granulocyte depletion with hydroxyurea. PMA significantly altered lung mechanics from base line in both nongranulocyte depleted and granulocyte-depleted sheep. Dynamic compliance decreased by over 50% and resistance to airflow across the lungs increased over threefold acutely following PMA infusion in both sets of experiments. Changes in lung mechanics, pulmonary hemodynamics, lung fluid and solute exchange, pulmonary gas exchange, and plasma and lymph arachidonate metabolites were not significantly affected by greater than 99% depletion of circulating granulocytes. We conclude that the lung injury caused by PMA in chronically instrumented awake sheep probably is not a result of activation of circulating granulocytes.

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