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J Appl Physiol 70: 1665-1676, 1991;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 70, Issue 4 1665-1676, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Volume flow across the alveolar epithelium of adult rat lung

S. T. Ballard and J. T. Gatzy
Curriculum in Toxicology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514.

We separated the solute and water flow across the alveolar epithelium from flow across airway epithelia of the adult rat. Small volumes (0.5-1.0 ml) of Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate (KRB) were trapped in the distal air space of the isolated vascular-perfused left lung lobes while the airways were blocked by immiscible O2-carrying fluorocarbon. Lobe weight was lost or gained in response to colloid gradients and was raised by metabolic inhibitors but did not change with only fluorocarbon in the air space or in response to modifiers of epithelial ion transport. When serum was added to the KRB-colloid perfusion, weight loss occurred in the absence of a colloid gradient (3.4 ml/min) and was Na+ dependent (inhibited by luminal Na(+)-free KRB). The change in the concentration of blue dextran in liquid sampled by micropuncture from subpleural alveoli was smaller than expected from lobe weight under basal conditions or with a colloid gradient, even though the volume marker accurately detected edema formation (weight gain) induced by metabolic inhibitors. We conclude that 1) weight changes represent volume absorption from the air spaces, 2) serum stimulates a Na+ absorptive process, and 3) by exclusion, small airways and/or other subpopulations of alveoli are the site of this absorption.


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