Inactivation of bradykinin in the pulmonary circulation.
Inactivation of bradykinin in the pulmonary circulation.
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缓激肽在肺循环中的失活。
DOI:
10.1042/bj1100795
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发表时间:
1968
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
J. Stewart
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作者:
J. Ryan;J. Roblero;J. Stewart
Ferreira & Vane (1967) have shown that less than 30% of bradykinin infused into the right atrium emerges in the ascending aorta. In blood the biological half-life was found to be 17 sec. Considering the brief circulation time from right atrium to ascending aorta (2-lOsec.; Spector, 1956), they concluded that enzymes of blood could not account for the degree of inactivation that occurred in the pulmonary circulation. A possible mechanism for the pulmonary inactivation of bradykinin is through hydrolysis by enzymes at or near the vascular endothelium. We have begun an investigation of this possibility by using a rat lung preparation in situ washed free of blood. Rats, weighing 0-2-0-4kg., were anaesthetized with pentobarbital (50mg./kg. body wt.) given by intraperitoneal injection. Polythene cannulae were placed in the left common carotid artery and the right external jugular vein. Another cannula was placed in the trachea and the lungs were ventilated mechanically. Saline (0.9% NaCI) was infused into the venous cannula and the rat was exsanguinated through the arterial cannula. Then a cannula was inserted through a slit in the right ventricle into the pulmonary artery and another was tied into the left ventricle. A Locke dextran solution (11. contained: dextran, 40g.; NaCl, 9 0g.; KCl, 0-42g.; CaCl2, 0-24g.; D-glucose, 10g.; NaHCO3, 0.2g.) was infused into the pulmonary artery at a rate of 4ml./min. and the effluent was collected from the cannula in the left ventricle. The infusion solutions were heated at 370 and were aerated with 02 + CO2 (95: 5). When the effluent became free of erythrocytes (after 3040min.) [2-L-proline-14C]bradykinin (28.6 ,uc/mg., lot no. 307-64; New England Nuclear Corp., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.) in Locke dextran solution was infused. The infusion rate was maintained at 4ml./min. Bradykinin was infused at 2-0 or 4 0,ug./