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J Appl Physiol 89: 2263-2267, 2000;
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Vol. 89, Issue 6, 2263-2267, December 2000

Vasomotor tone does not affect perfusion heterogeneity and gas exchange in normal primate lungs during normoxia

Robb W. Glenny, H. Thomas Robertson, and Michael P. Hlastala

Departments of Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington 98195

To determine whether vasoregulation is an important cause of pulmonary perfusion heterogeneity, we measured regional blood flow and gas exchange before and after giving prostacyclin (PGI2) to baboons. Four animals were anesthetized with ketamine and mechanically ventilated. Fluorescent microspheres were used to mark regional perfusion before and after PGI2 infusion. The lungs were subsequently excised, dried inflated, and diced into ~2-cm3 pieces (n = 1,208-1,629 per animal) with the spatial coordinates recorded for each piece. Blood flow to each piece was determined for each condition from the fluorescent signals. Blood flow heterogeneity did not change with PGI2 infusion. Two other measures of spatial blood flow distribution, the fractal dimension and the spatial correlation, did not change with PGI2 infusion. Alveolar-arterial O2 differences did not change with PGI2 infusion. We conclude that, in normal primate lungs during normoxia, vasomotor tone is not a significant cause of perfusion heterogeneity. Despite the heterogeneous distribution of blood flow, active regulation of regional perfusion is not required for efficient gas exchange.

regional perfusion; spatial heterogeneity; fluorescent microspheres; baboons; hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction


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