title: Attenuation of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction by pulsatile flow in dog lungs.
abstract: We measured pulmonary arterial pressure in isolated lower lobes of dog lungs perfused in situ at several flows during ventilation with 95% O2-5% CO2 and with 3% O2-5% CO2. Pulsatile perfusion was provided by a piston pump, and steady perfusion was provided by a roller pump. The slope of the pressure-flow curve was 16.1 +/- 1.6 Torr X 1(-1) X min at all flows between 200 and 800 ml/min during 95-5 ventilation and increased to 19.4 +/- 3.7 in hypoxia. When flow was 600 ml/min, with 95-5 ventilation, mean arterial pressure was 16.2 +/- 1.2 Torr in steady flow and was unchanged at 15.0 +/- 1.0 Torr in pulsatile flow. At the same flow during hypoxic ventilation, mean arterial pressure increased to 27.9 +/- 2.4 Torr (P less than 0.01) when flow was steady but only to 19.3 +/- 1.6 Torr (P less than 0.01) when flow was made pulsatile. Thus hypoxia increased perfusion pressure by a nearly parallel shift of the pressure-flow curve to higher pressures, and this change was smaller in pulsatile than in steady flow.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure; D004285:Dogs; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000503:physiopathology; D010100:Oxygen / Q000502:physiology*; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation; D012119:Respiration; D014655:Vascular Resistance; D014661:Vasoconstriction
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen