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Increased responsiveness of human pulmonary arteries in patients with positive bronchodilator response.

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:1. The effects of noradrenaline, endothelin-1, acetylcholine and sodium nitroprusside were studied in isolated pulmonary arteries obtained from 14 patients undergoing lobectomy for lung carcinoma. Seven patients had shown increased response to a bronchodilator test prior to operation. In the remaining patients (control) the bronchodilator test was negative. 2. Artery rings from patients with a positive bronchodilator response showed greater contraction to noradrenaline (pD2 = 6.44 +/- 0.1; Emax = 93 +/- 9% of response to 100 mM KCl) and endothelin-1 (pD2 = 8.92 +/- 0.1; Emax = 130 +/- 16%) than the rings from control patients (pD2 = 6.04 +/- 0.08; Emax = 56 +/- 8% for noradrenaline; pD2 = 8.29 +/- 0.1; Emax = 78 +/- 10% for endothelin-1). There was no significant difference in the contractile responses to 100 mM KCl between arteries from either group of patients. 3. Arterial rings from patients with a positive bronchodilator test achieved 96 +/- 3% of maximal relaxation in response to acetylcholine, whereas rings from control patients achieved a maximal relaxation of 72 +/- 5%. Rings from both the controls and the patients with a positive bronchodilator test achieved complete relaxation in response to sodium nitroprusside but pD2 values were significantly higher in patients with a positive bronchodilator test. 4. Removal of endothelium or treatment with NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester of artery rings from both the control and the patients with a positive bronchodilator test reduced the relaxation to acetylcholine (P < 0.05) but did not modify relaxation to sodium nitroprusside. 5. It is concluded that responsiveness of pulmonary arterial smooth muscle to dilator and constrictor agents is increased in patients showing reversibility of airway constriction. Thus hyperresponsiveness of airway smooth muscle may be associated with a similar phenomenon in the surrounding vascular smooth muscle.

journal_name

Br J Pharmacol

journal_title

British journal of pharmacology

authors

Cases E,Vila JM,Medina P,Aldasoro M,Segarra G,Lluch S

doi

10.1111/j.1476-5381.1996.tb16043.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-12-01 00:00:00

pages

1337-40

issue

eissn

0007-1188

issn

1476-5381

journal_volume

119

pub_type

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Increased responsiveness of human pulmonary arteries in patients with positive bronchodilator response.