PMID: 2118452Jul 1, 1990Paper

Piriprost pretreatment attenuates the smoke-induced increase in 99mTcDTPA lung clearance

Experimental Lung Research
M L WittenR J Lemen

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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Feb 1, 1992·Pediatric Pulmonology·M L WittenR J Lemen
Apr 2, 2002·Acta Astronautica·Daniel B DeeverMark L Witten
May 15, 2002·Toxicology and Industrial Health·S WangM L Witten

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