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Anoxia-reoxygenation versus ischemia in isolated rat lungs.

Abstract
Oxidant generation in anoxia-reoxygenation and ischemia-reperfusion was compared in isolated rat lungs. Anoxia-reoxygenation was produced by N2 ventilation followed by O2 ventilation. After anoxia, lung ATP content was decreased by 59%. Oxygenated ischemia was produced by discontinuing perfusion while ventilation with O2 was maintained. With anoxia-reoxygenation, oxidant generation, evaluated by oxidation of dichlorodihydrofluorescein (H2DCF) to fluorescent dichlorofluorescein, increased 3.6-fold, lung thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) increased 342%, conjugated dienes increased 285%, and protein carbonyl content increased 46%. Pretreatment of lungs with 100 microM allopurinol inhibited the reoxygenation-mediated increase in lung fluorescence by 75% and TBARS by 69%. Oxygenated ischemia resulted in an approximately eightfold increase in lung H2DCF oxidation and a fourfold increase in TBARS, but allopurinol had no effect. On the other hand, 100 microM diphenyliodonium (DPI) inhibited the ischemia-mediated increase in lung fluorescence by 69% and lung TBARS by 70%, but it had no effect on the increase with anoxia-reoxygenation. Therefore, both ischemia-reperfusion and anoxia-reoxygenation result in oxidant generation by the lung, but a comparison of results with a xanthine oxidase inhibitor (allopurinol) and a flavoprotein inhibitor (DPI) indicate that the pathways for oxidant generation are distinctly different.
AuthorsG Zhao, A B al-Mehdi, A B Fisher
JournalThe American journal of physiology (Am J Physiol) Vol. 273 Issue 6 Pg. L1112-7 (12 1997) ISSN: 0002-9513 [Print] United States
PMID9435564 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Oxidants
  • Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances
  • Allopurinol
  • Adenosine Triphosphate
Topics
  • Adenosine Triphosphate (metabolism)
  • Aerobiosis
  • Allopurinol (pharmacology)
  • Animals
  • Hypoxia
  • In Vitro Techniques
  • Ischemia (physiopathology)
  • Lipid Peroxidation
  • Lung (blood supply, drug effects, physiology)
  • Male
  • Oxidants (metabolism)
  • Perfusion
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances (metabolism)

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