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Kupffer cells (liver macrophages) are a key initiator of inflammation following hepatic insults such as infection, ischemia/reperfusion, and rejection. Heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) is protective against inflammatory injury. A hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier (HBOC) has been shown to prevent organ inflammation from hemorrhagic shock as well as induce HO-1 at the cellular level. Therefore, we hypothesize...
Background: Pulmonary vasorelaxation to endothelium-dependent and independent agonists is dysfunctional in endotoxin-induced acute lung injury. L-arginine is the precursor to endothelial production of nitric oxide (NO), suggesting that arginine and NO are intimately linked. We hypothesized that L-arginine would attenuate endotoxin-induced dysfunction of guanosine 3′, 5′-cyclic monophosphate-mediated...
Background. A major hemodynamic feature of acute lung injury is pulmonary hypertension caused by pulmonary vasoconstriction. Impairment of the mechanisms of pulmonary vasorelaxation may contribute to this pulmonary vasoconstriction. This study examined the effect of mesenteric ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) on lung neutrophil accumulation and endothelial-dependent and-independent cyclic 3′–5′ guanosine...
Pulmonary hypertension is the major hemodynamic feature of progressive lung injury. We hypothesized that the mechanisms of pulmonary vasorelaxation become progressively impaired in progressive lung injury. The purpose of this study was to examine the following mechanisms of pulmonary vasorelaxation in a rat model of monocrotaline-induced progressive lung injury: endothelial-dependent cyclic guanosine...
Background. Adult respiratory distress syndrome is characterized by hypoxia and acute pulmonary hypertension. Therefore we examined the effect of acute hypoxia on the mechanisms of pulmonary vasodilation.Methods. Isolated rat pulmonary artery rings were suspended on tensiometers in a balanced salt solution. A normoxic gas mixture was bubbled through the solution (21% O 2 , 5% CO 2 ...
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