HETEROPOROSITY OF THE CAPILLARY WALL AS INDICATED BY CINEMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE PASSAGE OF DYES
HETEROPOROSITY OF THE CAPILLARY WALL AS INDICATED BY CINEMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE PASSAGE OF DYES
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染料通过的电影摄影分析表明毛细管壁的异质性
DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1964.tb52544.x
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发表时间:
1964
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
E. Landis
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作者:
E. Landis
The purpose of this brief account is to compare and contrast the passage of a rapidly diffusible dye with that of a slowly diffusible dye through the walls of blood vessels with respect to time, manner, and location. Physiologists have studied capillary permeability intensively in some of the more accessible tissues by measuring filtration, absorption, and diffusion of molecules which, have ranged in size from water through proteins to dextrans. From quantitative data of this sort, and with some plausible assumptions, physiologists have calculated the sizes and numbers of apertures that might be compatible with the diffusions and filtrations that have actually been measured. With respect to the morphology and exact locations of openings in the capillary wall, physiological measurements of this type permit inferences, but not conclusions. For electron microscopists the situation is reversed. Working with a great variety of fixed tissues, many of them inaccessible as yet to physiological measurements, electron microscopists can describe in great detail the morphology and locations of interstices, gaps, vacuoles, and basement membranes. For them, it is the volume or mass ot exchange that must be inferred. Especially difficult to establish from an electron micrograph is the physiological relevance of a given opening or vesicle to the rate of exchange for a specific molecule. Between these two approaches, we find a much older, and intermediate, method of studying the nature of the capillary wall; namely, observing the passage of dyes chosen for their chemical characteristics and for their graded physical diffusibility. For instance, Schulemann' in 1917 concluded for acid dyes that their relative diffusibility through the capillary wall was similar to that through gelatin. In 1927 microinjection studies by Landis2 of dye-perfused single capillaries indicated that dye passage was frequently spotty in any one capillary and usually unequal from capillary to capillary, even when these vessels originated from the same arteriole. The time for appearance of a perfused dye outside the capillary wall seemed to depend on several factors, including the colloidal nature of the dye, capillary blood pressure, and capillary blood flow. In 1930 Rous, Gilding, and SmithS found that when highly diffusible dyes, such as patent blue V, were injected intravenously, they escaped rapidly from the capillaries of mammalian muscle,-so rapidly, indeed, that the tissues surrounding the arterial end of the capillary were colored even before the venous end was reached by the dye-stained blood. Conversely, when slowly diffusible dyes were used, they found the first extravascular appearance of dye outside the venous portion of the minute vessel system. From this they postulated the existence of a gradient of capillary permeability, by which they meant that the walls of minute vessels are relatively impermeable near the arterioles, but become increasingly permeable as the venules and veins are approached. The generalized passage of patent blue V through the walls of true capillaries was compatible with the equally general distribution of filtration and absorption of fluid as demonstrated by microinjection studies of single capillaries.2 On the other hand, the venously oriented passage of slowly diffusible dyes has remained an enigma.4 It is often forgotten that this so-called gradient of permeability a p