Abstract
We studied the effects of acute smoke exposure on lung permeability, eicosanoids, and inflammatory cell activity. Thirty-five New Zealand white rabbits were anesthetized, paralyzed, and exposed to 60 tidal volume breaths of diesel fuel-polycarbonate plastic smoke or sham smoke within 10 min. At 1 h postexposure the rabbits were killed and their lungs were removed for bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) or pathologic procedures. Smoke exposure caused decreases in technetium-labeled diethylenetriamine pentaacetate (99mTcDTPA, mol. wt. 492 Da) biological half-life (t1/2), BAL plasminogen activator, and BAL leukotriene B4 (LTB4). In addition, alveolar macrophage acid phosphatase enzyme activity increased in smoke-exposed rabbits. The leukotriene synthesis inhibitor, piriprost (U-60,257), given before smoke exposure, caused attenuation of the changes in 99mTcDTPA uptake and plasminogen activator, swelling of type I alveolar cell epithelium, a large increase in lung inflammatory cells, and decreases in BAL LTB4, prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), and TxB2 (stable metabolite of thromboxane, TxA2). We conclude that changes in alveolar-capillary barrier permeability and plasminogen activator activity occur within 1 h after exposure to smoke and may play...Continue Reading
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