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J Appl Physiol 67: 1323-1330, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 67, Issue 4 1323-1330, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Measurement of lung fluid volumes and albumin exclusion in sheep

N. A. Pou, R. J. Roselli, R. E. Parker, J. A. Clanton and T. R. Harris
Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232.

A radioactive tracer technique was used to determine interstitial diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) and albumin distribution volume in sheep lungs. 125I- and/or 131I-labeled albumin were injected intravenously and allowed to equilibrate for 24 h. 99mTc-labeled DTPA and 51Cr-labeled erythrocytes were injected and allowed to equilibrate (2 h and 15 min, respectively) before a lethal dose of thiamylal sodium. Two biopsies (1-3 g) were taken from each lung and the remaining tissue was homogenized for wet-to-dry lung weight and volume calculations. Estimates of distribution volumes from whole lung homogenized samples were statistically smaller than biopsy samples for extravascular water, interstitial 99mTc-DTPA, and interstitial albumin. The mean fraction of the interstitium (Fe), which excludes albumin, was 0.68 +/- 0.04 for whole lung samples compared with 0.62 +/- 0.03 for biopsy samples. Hematocrit may explain the consistent difference. To make the Fe for biopsy samples match that for homogenized samples, a mean hematocrit, which was 82% of large vessel hematocrit, was required. Excluded volume fraction for exogenous sheep albumin was compared with that of exogenous human albumin in two sheep, and no difference was found at 24 h.


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