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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 274: H1218-H1229, 1998;
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Vol. 274, Issue 4, H1218-H1229, April 1998

Novel catheterization technique for the in vivo measurement of pulmonary vascular responses in rats

Albert L. Hyman1,2, Qingzhong Hao3, Allen Tower4, Philip J. Kadowitz1,2, Hunter C. Champion2, Bulent Gumusel3, and Howard Lippton3,5

Departments of 1 Surgery and 2 Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, 3 H. L. Laboratories, Incorporated, and 5 Department of Pharmacology, Louisiana State University Medical School, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112; and 4 Nu-Med Incorporated, Hopkinton, New York 12940

A novel cardiac catheterization technique was devised to investigate the pulmonary arterial pressure-blood flow relationship in intact spontaneously breathing rats (ISBR) under physiological conditions with constant left atrial pressure and controlled blood flow within the normal range. Observations using this new technique in vivo were contrasted with data derived with isolated perfused rat lungs in vitro. Unlike results in in vitro isolated perfused rat lungs, the pressure-flow curves in vivo were curvilinear, with pulmonary artery pressure increasing more rapidly at low pulmonary blood flows of 4-8 ml/min and less rapidly at higher flow rates. Pressure-flow curves were reproducible and were not altered by 1-1.5 h of arrested perfusion, cyclooxygenase blockade, or perfusion with aortic or mixed venous blood. In contrast to results in in vitro isolated perfused rat lungs, NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) increased pulmonary arterial pressure at all but the lowest flow rates with a slight effect on the curvilinear pressure-flow relationship. L-NAME reversed pulmonary vasodilator responses to acetylcholine and bradykinin and enhanced the pulmonary vasodilator response to nitroglycerin. The present data suggest that actively induced pulmonary hypertension is under greater control by endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF). Unlike previous results in in vitro perfused rat lungs, results in ISBR demonstrate that the pulmonary vasodilator response to adrenomedullin-(13---52) is not mediated by calcitonin gene-related peptide receptors, which are not coupled to the release of EDRF. These results indicate that this novel technique may provide a useful model for the study of the pulmonary circulation in the intact chest rat.

pulmonary vascular bed; endothelium-derived relaxing factor-dependent vasodilation; nitric oxide; pressure-flow relationship; adrenomedullin


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