Effect of Inhaled Racemic and (R)-Albuterol on Airway Vascular Smooth Muscle Tone in Healthy and Asthmatic Subjects
Effect of Inhaled Racemic and (R)-Albuterol on Airway Vascular Smooth Muscle Tone in Healthy and Asthmatic Subjects
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吸入外消旋和 (R)-沙丁胺醇对健康和哮喘受试者气道血管平滑肌张力的影响
DOI:
10.1007/s00408-003-1022-1
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发表时间:
2003
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5
通讯作者:
Adam Wanner
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作者:
Adriana Pereira;E. Mendes;T. Ferreira;Adam Wanner
AbstractAlthough the relative effect of racemic and (R)-albuterol on airway smooth muscle tone have been investigated in patients with airflow obstruction, the comparative effectiveness of these drugs in relaxing airway vascular smooth muscle is unknown. Therefore, we determined the actions of inhaled racemic and (R)-albuterol on airway mucosal blood flow (
) normalized for anatomic dead space as an index of airway vascular smooth muscle tone in 11 healthy subjects and 10 subjects with mild asthma. We also monitored the forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) as an index of airway smooth muscle tone. Mean ± SE baseline
was 43.1 ± 1.5 µl.min−1.ml−1 in healthy subjects and 53.4 ± 2.1 µl.min−1.ml−1 in asthmatic subjects (p < 0.01). The corresponding values for FEV1 were 95.6 ± 1.4 and 86.8 ± 2.5% respectively, of predicted (p = 0.01). Racemic and (R)-albuterol caused a transient, dose-dependent increase of
in healthy, but not in asthmatic subjects; the responses were not different between the two drugs. The FEV1 tended to increase more in asthmatics than in healthy subjects, again without a difference between the two drugs. These results show that racemic and (R)-albuterol have comparable effects on airway vascular smooth muscle and suggest that the blunted airway vascular smooth muscle response to albuterol in asthmatics is not related to (S)-albuterol.