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J Appl Physiol 67: 1850-1854, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 67, Issue 5 1850-1854, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Pulmonary transvascular flux of transferrin

J. A. Cooper and A. B. Malik
Department of Radiology, Albany Medical College of Union University, New York 12208.

We compared the pulmonary transvascular fluxes of transferrin and albumin in the intact sheep lung. Anesthetized sheep were prepared with lung lymph fistulas. The vascular blood pool was marked with 99mTc-erythrocytes, autologous transferrin was labeled with 113mIn, and albumin was labeled with 125I. Samples of blood, plasma, lymph, and lung were obtained up to 180 min after tracer infusion. Lymph tissue radioactivities were corrected for the intravascular component and expressed as extravascular-to-plasma concentration ratios. Clearance of transferrin and albumin from the plasma space followed a two-compartment model. The clearance rate constant was 2.1 +/- 0.1 x 10(-3) min for albumin and 2.4 +/- 0.1 x 10(-3) min for transferrin (P less than 0.05). Lymph-to-plasma ratios for albumin and transferrin were not different. However, the extravascular-to-plasma ratio for albumin was greater than transferrin (P less than 0.05). The lymph and lung data were deconvoluted for the plasma input function and fit to a two-compartment model. The results indicate that albumin and transferrin have similar permeabilities across the vascular barrier but have different pulmonary circulation to lymph kinetics because the extravascular volume of distribution of albumin is greater than transferrin.


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