Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 75, Issue 5 2069-2078, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Thromboxane receptor stimulation/inhibition and perfusion redistribution after acute lung injury

D. P. Schuster, P. Sandiford and A. H. Stephenson
Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri.

Perfusion redistribution (PR) after acute oleic acid (OA) lung injury may be the result of changes in the tissue concentration ratio of thromboxane (Tx) and prostacyclin (A. H. Stephenson et al. J. Appl. Physiol. 73: 2126-2134, 1992). We tested this hypothesis by determining whether the Tx mimetic U-46619 would mimic PR caused by cyclooxygenase inhibition with meclofenamate and whether the Tx receptor antagonist ONO-3708 would inhibit PR even in the presence of meclofenamate. Measurements of regional pulmonary blood flow (PBF) and lung water concentration were made with the nuclear medicine imaging technique of positron emission tomography. Measurements were made at baseline and 2 h after OA. At baseline, the spatial distribution of PBF was similar in all experimental groups. Two hours after OA, fractional PBF was reduced to the edematous lung in all groups given OA, but the magnitude of change was greater in those groups receiving meclofenamate or U-46619 compared with the change in the group given OA only. Thus, although the Tx mimetic produced the same amount of PR as meclofenamate, Tx inhibition did not prevent PR after meclofenamate. Therefore, the ratio of Tx to prostacyclin per se is not the critical determinant of PR.

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