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Lung and alveolar wall elastic and hysteretic behavior in rats: effects of in vivo elastase treatment

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering and ²Center for Polymer Studies, Department of Physics, Boston University; and ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02215

Submitted 31 January 2003 ; accepted in final form 11 July 2003

We investigated the relationship between the microscopic elastic and hysteretic behavior of the alveolar walls and the macroscopic mechanical properties of the whole lung in an in vivo elastase-treated rat model of emphysema. We measured the input impedance of isolated lungs at three levels of transpulmonary pressure (Ptp) and used a linear model to estimate the dynamic elastance and hysteresivity of the lungs. The elastance of the normal lungs increased steeply with Ptp, whereas this dependence diminished in the treated lungs. Hysteresivity decreased significantly with Ptp in the normal lungs, but this dependence disappeared in the treated lungs. To investigate the microscopic origins of these changes, the alveolar walls were immunofluorescently labeled in small tissue strips. By using a fluorescent microscope, the lengths and angular orientations of individual alveolar walls were followed during cyclic uniaxial stretching of the tissue strips. The microstrains (relative change in segment length) and changes in angle of the alveolar walls showed considerable heterogeneity, which was interpreted in terms of a network model. In the normal strips, the alveolar walls showed larger angular changes compared with the treated tissue, whereas the alveolar walls of the treated tissue tended to be more extensible. Hysteresis in the average angle change was also larger in the treated tissue than in the normal tissue. We conclude that the decreased Ptp dependence of elastance and the constant hysteresivity in the treated lungs are related to microstructural remodeling and network phenomena at the level of the alveolar walls.

collagen; elastin; fluorescent imaging; remodeling; mechanics

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