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J Appl Physiol 74: 1061-1065, 1993;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 74, Issue 3 1061-1065, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Endothelium-derived relaxing factor activity in rat lung during hypoxic pulmonary vascular remodeling

L. Zhao, D. E. Crawley, J. M. Hughes, T. W. Evans and R. J. Winter
Department of Medicine (Respiratory Division), Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

We have investigated the role of endothelium-derived relaxing factor in modulating hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction by inhibiting its synthesis with the false substrate NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) in the isolated blood-perfused lungs of Wistar rats after chronic hypoxia (CH, fractional inspiratory O2 concentration 10%) for 15 h, 2 days, and 7 days. Lungs were perfused with blood of normal hematocrit at constant flow (18 ml/min) ventilated with 1) 95% air-5% CO2 (normoxia) and 2) 2% O2-5% CO2-93% N2 (hypoxia) and were studied in the absence and presence of L-NMMA (30 and 300 microM) or L-arginine (L-Arg, 1 and 6 mM) in separate groups. Pulmonary arterial pressure (Ppa) rose incrementally with hypoxic exposure (all P < 0.05 vs. normoxic control group). Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) was markedly reduced after 15 h and 2 days of CH: the mean increases in Ppa (delta Ppa) in hypoxia were 15.3, 3.5, 3.8, and 13.6 mmHg in control rats and rats exposed to 15 h (P < 0.05 vs. control and 7 days of CH), 2 days (P < 0.001 vs. control and 7 days of CH), and 7 days of CH, respectively. Ppa in control rats and rats exposed to 15 h, 2 days, and 7 days of CH were 137, 179, 184, and 166% of control, respectively, after 30 microM L-NMMA (all P < 0.05 when expressed as percent change vs. no L-NMMA). Similar augmentation in HPV was seen after 30 microM L-NMMA, with all hypoxic groups having a greater response than control groups.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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