ENHANCED PRESERVATION OF ORTHOTOPICALLY TRANSPLANTED RAT LUNGS BY NITROGLYCERIN BUT NOT HYDRALAZINE - REQUIREMENT FOR GRAFT VASCULAR HOMEOSTASIS BEYOND HARVEST VASODILATION
ENHANCED PRESERVATION OF ORTHOTOPICALLY TRANSPLANTED RAT LUNGS BY NITROGLYCERIN BUT NOT HYDRALAZINE - REQUIREMENT FOR GRAFT VASCULAR HOMEOSTASIS BEYOND HARVEST VASODILATION
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DOI:
10.1161/01.res.76.5.900
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发表时间:
1995-05-01
影响因子:
20.1
通讯作者:
PINSKY, DJ
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作者:
NAKA, Y;CHOWDHURY, NC;PINSKY, DJ
Nitric oxide (NO) produced within the lungs maintains pulmonary vascular homeostatic properties, modulating leukocyte traffic, platelet aggregation, and vasomotor tone. Because reactive oxygen intermediates generated during reperfusion react rapidly with available NO, we hypothesized that the NO donor nitroglycerin (NTG) would enhance lung preservation for transplantation by improving graft blood flow and reducing graft neutrophil and platelet sequestration. By use of an orthotopic rat left lung transplant model, with ligation of the native right pulmonary artery to ensure that recipient survival and physiological measurements depend entirely on the transplanted lung, transplants were performed in 70 male Lewis rats after 6-hour 4 degrees C preservation in Euro-Collins solution (EC) alone or EC with supplemental NTG. Compared with EC alone, supplemental NTG significantly increased pulmonary arterial flow (2.2+/-1.4 to 21.4+/-2.9 mL/min, P