Heterogeneous distribution of type I nitric oxide synthase in pulmonary vasculature of ovine fetus

Ching Tzao, Peter A. Nickerson, James A. Russell, Bernice K. Noble, Robin H. Steinhorn

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摘要

The nitric oxide/guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate pathway plays an essential role in mediating pulmonary vasodilation at birth. Small resistance arteries in the fetal lung are vessels of major significance in the regulation of pulmonary vascular tone. The present study is to determine that type I nitric oxide synthase (NOS-I) is present in ovine fetal pulmonary vasculature and that NOS-I is distributed heterogeneously in ovine fetal pulmonary circulation. We used reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase (NADPH-d) histochemistry and NOS-I immunohistochemistry to localize NOS-I in fetal sheep lungs and showed a colocalization for NADPH-d activity with NOS-I immunoreactivity. Strong NOS-I immunoreactivity was observed exclusively in the endothelium of the terminal bronchiole and respiratory bronchiole-associated arteries. As a comparison, adult sheep lung did not show positive immunoreactivity in the pulmonary endothelium. NOS-I was absent in the umbilical or systemic arteries from the ovine fetus, whereas abundant NOS-III immunoreactivity was present in these arteries. We conclude that NOS-I is present uniquely in the ovine fetal pulmonary circulation as opposed to the adult pulmonary or the fetal systemic circulation. NOS-I is distributed heterogeneously in the ovine pulmonary vasculature. We speculate that NOS-I plays an active role in the regulation of perinatal pulmonary circulation.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)421-430
頁數10
期刊Histochemistry and Cell Biology
114
發行號5
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2000
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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 組織學
  • 分子生物學
  • 醫學實驗室技術
  • 細胞生物學

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