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Vol. 83, Issue 5, 1476-1481, 1997

Differential relaxant responses of pulmonary arteries and veins in lung explants of guinea pigs

Weibin Shi, David H. Eidelman, and René P. Michel

Department of Pathology and Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4

Received 12 February 1997; accepted in final form 2 July 1997.

Shi, Weibin, David H. Eidelman, and René P. Michel. Differential relaxant responses of pulmonary arteries and veins in lung explants of guinea pigs. J. Appl. Physiol. 83(5): 1476-1481, 1997.---The endothelium regulates vascular tone through release of relaxing or contracting factors, with nitric oxide (NO) being a major endothelium-derived relaxing factor. In the present study, we used a lung explant technique to determine the differential abilities and mechanisms of pulmonary arteries and veins of normal guinea pigs to relax after precontraction. Excised lungs of 15 guinea pigs were filled through the airways with 1% agarose, cut into 1-mm-thick slices, and cultured overnight. Luminal areas of vascular cross sections were measured with an image-analysis system. Vessels were precontracted with U-46619, and responses to histamine, acetylcholine (ACh), sodium nitroprusside, and papaverine were examined. We also determined the effects of Nomega -nitro-L-arginine and of indomethacin on ACh-induced responses. We found that histamine relaxed arteries more than veins and that ACh relaxed only arteries. Nomega -nitro-L-arginine pretreatment abolished ACh-induced relaxation of arteries and caused ACh-induced contraction of veins, whereas indomethacin markedly augmented ACh-induced relaxation of arteries (maximal relaxation: 48.5 ± 4.7 vs. 19.2 ± 5.1% without it) and induced a dose-dependent relaxation of veins (maximal relaxation: 17.0 ± 4.1%). Sodium nitroprusside induced a significantly greater relaxation of arteries than veins, whereas papaverine relaxed them equally. We conclude that in guinea pigs endothelial NO-mediated relaxation is greater in pulmonary arteries than in veins and that ACh-induced NO-mediated relaxation is reduced by the simultaneous production of cyclooxygenase-derived vasoconstrictors.

endothelium; acetylcholine; histamine; nitric oxide

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