Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 61, Issue 5 1781-1789, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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Increased lung vascular permeability after arachidonic acid and hydrostatic challenge

W. Seeger, D. Walmrath, M. Menger and H. Neuhof

Arachidonic acid (AA) metabolites are known to be potent vasoactive substances in the pulmonary circulation, whereas their influence on lung vascular permeability is still uncertain. We investigated the effect of AA bolus injection on the capillary filtration coefficient (Kf,C) of isolated rabbit lungs, recirculatingly perfused with Krebs-Henseleit albumin (1%) buffer. Kf,C was measured using repetitive sudden venous pressure elevations (7.5 Torr) and time zero extrapolation of the slope of the weight gain curve. It ranged from 1.3 to 2.4 cm3 X s-1 X Torr-1 X g-1 X 10(-4) in control lungs. Pulmonary arterial injection of AA (100 microM; in presence of 20 microM indomethacin to suppress pulmonary arterial pressure rise) during an acute hydrostatic challenge, but not at zero venous pressure, caused a greater than 10-fold increase in Kf,C. Vascular compliance was not altered. Additional experiments, performed under zero-flow conditions to avoid any ambiguity in microvascular pressure, corroborated the severalfold increase in vascular permeability, detectable within 3 min after AA application during acute hydrostatic challenge.

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