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J Appl Physiol 75: 1194-1200, 1993;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 75, Issue 3 1194-1200, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of prolonged alveolar hypoxia on pulmonary arterial pressure and segmental vascular resistance

K. L. Welling, R. Sanchez, J. B. Ravn, B. Larsen and O. Amtorp
Department of Cardiology, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark.

The time course of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction and its segmental distribution were studied during prolonged (150 min) alveolar hypoxia in in vivo dog lungs at constant-flow perfusion. With the pulmonary and the systemic circulations separated by two extracorporeal circuits, adequate systemic oxygenation was achieved throughout the experiments. The pulmonary circulation exhibited a time-related biphasic hypoxic vasoconstrictor response: an initial rapid contraction [79 +/- 11% (SE) above control level] was followed by a partial relaxation when a second slow and sustained vasoconstriction (92 +/- 13% above control level) superseded. We partitioned the pulmonary circulation into two segments by arterial occlusion: an upstream arterial segment and a downstream segment consisting of a middle and a venous segment. Measurements were performed at baseline and during the late sustained vasoconstrictor response. Prolonged alveolar hypoxia increased pulmonary capillary pressure by 90 +/- 18%, the site of pulmonary vasomotion being the arterial upstream and downstream middle and venous segments.


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