Author:
Shou Yixin,Jan Kung-ming,Rumschitzki David S.
Abstract
In this study, filtration flows through the walls of the rat aorta, pulmonary artery (PA), and inferior vena cava (IVC), vessels with very different susceptibilities to atherosclerosis, were measured as a function of transmural pressure (ΔP), with intact and denuded endothelium on the same vessel. Aortic hydraulic conductivity ( Lp) is high at 60 mmHg, drops ∼40% by 100 mmHg, and is pressure independent to 140 mmHg. The trends are similar in the PA and IVC, dropping 42% from 10 to 40 mmHg and flat to 100 mmHg (PA) and dropping 33% from 10 to 20 mmHg and essentially flat to 60 mmHg (IVC). Removal of the endothelium renders Lp(ΔP) flat: it increases Lpof the aorta by ∼75%, doubles Lpof the PA, and quadruples Lpof the IVC. Specific resistance (1/ Lp) of the aortic endothelium is ∼47% of total resistance; i.e., the endothelium accounts for ∼47% of the ΔP drop at 100 mmHg. The PA value is 55% at >40 mmHg, and the IVC value is 23% at 10 mmHg. Lpof the intact aorta, PA, and IVC are order 10−8,10−7, and 5 × 10−7cm·s−1·mmHg−1, and wall thicknesses are 145.8 μm (SD 9.3), 78.9 μm (SD 3.3), and 66.1 μm (SD 4.1), respectively. These data are consistent with the different wall structures of the three vessels. The rat aortic Lpdata are quantitatively consistent with rabbit Lp(ΔP) (Tedgui A and Lever MJ. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 247: H784–H791, 1984; Baldwin AL and Wilson LM. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 264: H26–H32, 1993), suggesting that intimal compression under pressure loading may also play a role in Lp(ΔP) in these other vessels. Despite very different driving ΔP, nominal transmural water fluxes of these three vessels are very similar and, therefore, cannot alone account for their differences in disease susceptibility. The different fates of macromolecular tracers convected by these water fluxes into the walls of these vessels may account for this difference.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology
Cited by
29 articles.
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