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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 278: H8-H15, 2000;
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Vol. 278, Issue 1, H8-H15, January 2000

A novel right-heart catheterization technique for in vivo measurement of vascular responses in lungs of intact mice

Hunter C. Champion, Douglas J. Villnave, Allen Tower, Philip J. Kadowitz, and Albert L. Hyman

Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70112; and Nu-Med Inc., Hopkinton, New York 12940

The present study employed a new right-heart catheterization technique to measure pulmonary arterial pressure, pulmonary arterial wedge pressure, and pulmonary vascular resistance in anesthetized intact-chest, spontaneously breathing mice. Under fluoroscopic guidance, a specially designed catheter was inserted via the right jugular vein and advanced to the main pulmonary artery. Cardiac output was determined by the thermodilution technique, and measured parameters were stable for periods of equal3 h. Pressure-flow curves in vivo were curvilinear, with mean pulmonary arterial pressure increasing more rapidly at low pulmonary blood flows of 5-10 ml/min and less rapidly at higher blood flow rates. The pressure-flow relationship was shifted to the left by the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) at higher blood flow levels, whereas the cyclooxygenase inhibitor sodium meclofenamate was without effect. The increase in pulmonary arterial pressure in response to acute hypoxia (fractional inspired O2 10%) was augmented by L-NAME but unaltered by sodium meclofenamate. The present results demonstrate that the right-heart catheterization technique can be used to measure pulmonary vascular pressures and responses in the mouse. This is, to our knowledge, the first report of a right-heart catheterization technique to measure pulmonary vascular pressures and responses in the intact-chest, spontaneously breathing mouse and should prove useful for the investigation of pulmonary vascular responses in transgenic mice.

cardiac output; pulmonary vascular bed; mouse; vascular resistance; pressure-flow relationship; acute hypoxia; nitric oxide


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