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Maturational changes of endothelial vasoactive factors and pulmonary vascular tone at birth

M Levy, E Souil, S Sabry, F Favatier, P Vaugelade, JC Mercier, J Dall'Ava-Santucci, AT Dinh-Xuan
European Respiratory Journal 2000 15: 158-165; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00.15115800
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The aim of this study was to determine which endothelial factors were involved in the decrease of pulmonary vascular resistance at birth, and how they changed with maturation. Response of intrapulmonary artery rings precontracted with prostaglandin F2alpha were studied from piglets aged <2 h, 2-3 day, 10 day and adult pigs for pharmacological responses to acetylcholine (ACh) and cromakalim (CMK) in the presence and the absence of the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor, N(omega)-nitro-L-arginine (L-NA), the adenosine triphosphate sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channel blocker, glibenclamide and the endothelin (ET)-A receptor antagonist, BQ123. In situ hybridization and immunochemistry studies were performed in lung tissues of the same animals in order to determine the expression of NOS and ET. There was a small contractile effect of ACh in the newborn. Relaxation to ACh, which was blocked by L-NA and reduced by glibenclamide, only appeared from the age of 3 days. The significantly greater relaxation to CMK in rings without endothelium (p<0.05) was abolished by BQ123 in the newborn, and then disappeared by 2 days of age. Glibenclamide had a greater inhibitory effect on relaxation induced by CMK at 10 days than in the newborn and 2 days old piglets. NOS expression was low in pulmonary arteries of the newborn and increased by 2 days of age whereas the converse was seen with ET expression. It is concluded that: 1) relaxant response to acetylcholine was absent at birth and appeared at 2 days; 2) the reduced relaxant response to cromakalin in rings with endothelium at birth could be blocked by BQ123; and 3) the expression of endothelin decreased whereas the expression of nitric oxide synthase increased from birth to 2 days of age.

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Maturational changes of endothelial vasoactive factors and pulmonary vascular tone at birth
M Levy, E Souil, S Sabry, F Favatier, P Vaugelade, JC Mercier, J Dall'Ava-Santucci, AT Dinh-Xuan
European Respiratory Journal Jan 2000, 15 (1) 158-165; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00.15115800

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M Levy, E Souil, S Sabry, F Favatier, P Vaugelade, JC Mercier, J Dall'Ava-Santucci, AT Dinh-Xuan
European Respiratory Journal Jan 2000, 15 (1) 158-165; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00.15115800
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