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Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 279: L857-L862, 2000;
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Vol. 279, Issue 5, L857-L862, November 2000

Chronic intrauterine pulmonary hypertension decreases calcium-sensitive potassium channel mRNA expression

David N. Cornfield1, Ernesto R. Resnik1, Jean M. Herron1, and Steven H. Abman2

1 Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455; and 2 Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado 80218

Calcium-sensitive potassium (KCa) channels play a critical role in mediating perinatal pulmonary vasodilation. Because infants with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) have blunted vasodilator responses to birth-related stimuli, we hypothesized that lung KCa channel gene expression is decreased in PPHN. To test this hypothesis, we measured KCa channel gene expression in distal lung homogenates from both fetal lambs with severe pulmonary hypertension caused by prolonged compression of the ductus arteriosus and age-matched, sham-operated animals (controls). After at least 9 days of compression of the ductus arteriosus, fetal lambs were killed. To determine lung KCa channel mRNA levels, primers were designed against the known sequence of the KCa channel and used in semiquantitative RT-PCR, with lung 18S rRNA content as an internal control. Compared to that in control lambs, lung KCa channel mRNA content in the PPHN group was reduced by 26 ± 6% (P < 0.02), whereas lung voltage-gated K+ 2.1 mRNA content was unchanged. We conclude that lung KCa channel mRNA expression is decreased in an ovine model of PPHN. Decreased KCa channel gene expression may contribute to the abnormal pulmonary vascular reactivity associated with PPHN.

fetus; oxygen sensing; messenger RNA; pulmonary vasodilation


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