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Cardiovascular-Pulmonary Research Laboratory, Departments of 1 Medicine and 2 Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262
During hepatopulmonary syndrome caused by liver cirrhosis, pulmonary endothelial nitric oxide (NO) synthase (NOS) expression and NO production are increased. Increased NO contributes to the blunted hypoxic pressor response (HPR) during cirrhosis and may induce heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) expression and carbon monoxide (CO) production, exacerbating the blunted HPR. We hypothesized that NO regulates the expression of HO-1 during cirrhosis, contributing to hepatopulmonary syndrome. Cirrhosis was induced in rats by common bile duct ligation (CBDL). Rats were studied 2 and 5 wk after CBDL or sham surgery. Lung HO-1 expression was elevated 5 wk after CBDL. Liver HO-1 was increased at 2 wk and remained elevated at 5 wk. In catheterized rats, the blunted HPR was partially restored by HO inhibition. Rats treated with the NOS inhibitor NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester for the entire 2- or 5-wk duration had normalized HO-1 expression and HPR. These data provide in vivo evidence for the NO-mediated upregulation of HO-1 expression and support the concept that hepatopulmonary syndrome is multifactorial, involving not only NO, but also HO-1 and CO.
carbon monoxide; cirrhosis; endothelial nitric oxide synthase; pulmonary vasoreactivity; calcium-activated potassium channels
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