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J Appl Physiol 80: 1666-1673, 1996;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 80, Issue 5 1666-1673, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Differential effects of salmeterol on lung endothelial and epithelial leakage in sheep

B. T. Peterson, D. E. Griffith, J. C. Connelly and R. W. Tate
Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Center at Tyler 75710, USA.

Salmeterol has been shown to prevent the influx of proteins into the air spaces of lungs of guinea pigs given intravenous histamine. To determine whether the salmeterol acts to stabilize the epithelial or endothelial barrier, we ventilated anesthetized sheep with aerosolized salmeterol before infusing histamine intravenously at a rate of 4 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 for 3 h. Changes in endothelial permeability were assessed by measuring the flow of lymph and proteins from the lungs. The influx of proteins into the air spaces was detected by performing single-cycle lavages to measure the concentration of circulating 125I-albumin in the epithelial lining fluid. Intravenous histamine increased the lymph flow to 13.2 +/- 6.8 ml/h compared with the control value of 5.6 +/- 2.8 ml/h (P < 0.05). Histamine also increased the concentration of 125I-albumin in the epithelial lining fluid from 1.8 +/- 0.9 to 8.5 +/- 2.5% of the plasma concentration (P < 0.01) and the postmortem lung water volume from 3.5 +/- 0.5 to 5.0 +/- 0.8 mg/g dry lung wt (P < 0.05). Pretreatment with 2.5 mg of aerosolized salmeterol prevented the influx of proteins into the air spaces and the increase in the postmortem lung water volume but it also increased the lung lymph flow even further to 20.0 +/- 5.6 ml/h (P < 0.05), increased the lymph-to-plasma protein ratio from 0.77 to 0.91, and tripled the increase in alveolar-arterial oxygen gradient caused by histamine alone. Pretreatment with 2.5 mg of intravenous salmeterol had essentially the same effect as salmeterol administered by aerosol. We conclude that salmeterol decreases lung epithelial permeability but increases lung endothelial permeability due to intravenous histamine in sheep.


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