title: Effect of prostacyclin on pulmonary vascular response to thrombin in awake sheep.
abstract: We determined the effects of infusion of prostacyclin (PGI2) and 6-alpha-carba-PGI2 (6-cPGI2), a stable PGI2 analogue, on pulmonary transvascular fluid and protein fluxes after intravascular coagulation induced by thrombin. Studies were made in control awake sheep prepared with lung lymph fistulas (n = 6) and in similarly prepared awake sheep pretreated with either 6-cPGI2 (n = 5) or PGI2 (n = 5). Both prostacyclin compounds (500 ng X kg-1 X min-1) were infused intravenously. All groups were challenged with 80 U/kg thrombin. Pulmonary arterial pressure (Ppa), pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), pulmonary lymph flow (Qlym), lymph protein clearance (Qlym X lymph/plasma protein concentration ratio), and neutrophil and platelet counts were determined. In vitro tests assessed sheep neutrophil chemotaxis and chemiluminescence and platelet aggregation. In both 6-cPGI2 and PGI2 groups, the increases in Qlym after thrombin were less than those in the control group. The increase in lymph protein clearance in the 6-cPGI2 group was the same as that in control, whereas the increase in clearance in the PGI2 group was reduced. PVR and Ppa increased to a greater extent in the 6-cPGI2 group than in the control group, whereas the increases in PVR and Ppa were inhibited in the PGI2 group. Neutrophil and platelet counts decreased after thrombin in PGI2 and 6-cPGI2 groups, as they did in the control group. Neither 6-cPGI2 altered neutrophil chemotaxis induced by thrombin and chemiluminescence induced by opsonized zymosan. Both prostacyclin compounds inhibited platelet aggregation induced by ADP or thrombin.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D011464:Epoprostenol / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000503:physiopathology; D008196:Lymph / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D010974:Platelet Aggregation / Q000187:drug effects; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation / Q000187:drug effects*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000503:physiopathology; D012756:Sheep; D013917:Thrombin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014655:Vascular Resistance / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; C026678:carboprostacyclin; D011464:Epoprostenol; D013917:Thrombin