Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 77, Issue 2 1030-1035, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Evans blue dye in the assessment of permeability-surface are product in perfused rat lungs

M. M. Dallal and S. W. Chang
Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.

Evans blue dye (EBD) has been used extensively as a marker of extravascular protein leakage. We assessed the utility of EBD as an albumin marker in the measurement of permeability-surface area product (PS) in perfused rat lungs and compared the results with PS values obtained using 125I-labeled albumin. In isolated perfused rat lungs, PS was measured by exposure to a perfusate containing EBD (600 micrograms/ml) and 125I-albumin (I microCi) for exactly 3 min, followed by washout of the intravascular space with fresh perfusate for 6 min. In lungs from normal rats, we found that PS obtained by EBD (PS-EBD) was fivefold higher than PS obtained by 125I-albumin (PS-125I) [1.92 +/- 0.32 (SE) vs. 0.42 +/- 0.03 x 10(-2) cm3.min-1.g-1, P < 0.05]. Similarly, in rats pretreated with Salmonella enteritidis lipopolysaccharide (2 mg/kg iv), PS-EBD was much higher than PS-125I (2.01 +/- 0.30 vs. 0.59 +/- 0.08 x 10(-2) cm3.min-1.g-1, P < 0.01). This discrepancy between PS-EBD and PS-125I was not explained by differences in the amount of free marker in perfusate, because the albumin-binding rate for both markers was very high. In addition, prolonged perfusion (40 min) with EBD did not significantly affect pulmonary vasoreactivity or water content in rat lungs. A detailed comparison of the kinetics of lung tissue uptake of EBD followed by parallel uptake of both markers up to 60 min of perfusion.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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