The spatial distribution of ventilation in the lavaged lung is modified by a recruitment maneuver performed after surfactant administration.

SonoVue was shown to be rapidly removed from the blood. The route of SF6 elimination was by means of the lungs in the expired air. SonoVue appeared to be safe and well tolerated in healthy subjects.

Simultaneous determination of the kinetics of cardiac output, systemic O 2 delivery, and lung O2 uptake at exercise onset in men. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 290: R1071-R1079, 2006. First published October 20, 2005 doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00366.2005.-We tested whether the kinetics of systemic O 2 delivery (Q aO2) at exercise start was faster than that of lung O 2 uptake (V O2), being dictated by that of cardiac output (Q ), and whether changes in Q would explain the postulated rapid phase of the V O2 increase. Simultaneous determinations of beat-by-beat (BBB) Q and Q aO 2, and breath-by-breath V O2 at the onset of constant load exercises at 50 and 100 W were obtained on six men (age 24.2 Ϯ 3.2 years, maximal aerobic power 333 Ϯ 61 W). V O2 was determined using Grønlund's algorithm. Q was computed from BBB stroke volume (Q st, from arterial pulse pressure profiles) and heart rate (f H, electrocardiograpy) and calibrated against a steadystate method. This, along with the time course of hemoglobin concentration and arterial O 2 saturation (infrared oximetry) allowed computation of BBB Q aO 2. The Q , Q aO2 and V O2 kinetics were analyzed with single and double exponential models. f H, Qst, Q , and V O2 increased upon exercise onset to reach a new steady state. The kinetics of Q aO 2 had the same time constants as that of Q . The latter was twofold faster than that of V O2. The V O2 kinetics were faster than previously reported for muscle phosphocreatine decrease. Within a two-phase model, because of the Fick equation, the amplitude of phase I Q changes fully explained the phase I of V O2 increase. We suggest that in unsteady states, lung V O2 is dissociated from muscle O 2 consumption. The two components of Q and Q aO2 kinetics may reflect vagal withdrawal and sympathetic activation. cardiovascular response AT THE ONSET OF SQUARE-WAVE light aerobic exercise, O 2 consumption increases to attain a steady level, proportional to the exerted mechanical power. Its increase rises at a finite rate in response to the step increase in power, so that an O 2 deficit is incurred in the first minutes of exercise. The O 2 deficit reflects the decrease in high-energy phosphate concentration that is necessary to accelerate aerobic metabolic pathways (5,19,35,37). Analogous to the charge of a single capacitance, the increase in O 2 consumption was described by monoexponential equations (5,15,19). The monoexponential decrease in phosphocreatine concentration upon square-wave exercise onset (6, 46) is perhaps the strongest evidence provided so far in favor of this single capacitance model for O 2 consumption. Assuming close correspondence between O 2 consumption by the working muscles and O 2 uptake at the lungs (V O 2 ), the V O 2 was investigated to gain information on O 2 consumption (15, 16).This correspondence, however, was questioned. In fact, the kinetics of O 2 consumption requires that it be sustained by adequate O 2 transfer from ambient air to mitochondria. Thus, concomitant with the increase in O 2 consumption, th...

Distinct from its receptor binding sites, TNF carries a lectin-like domain, situated at the tip of the molecule, which specifically binds oligosaccharides, such as N,N′-diacetylchitobiose. In view of the apparently conflicting data concerning TNF actions in pulmonary edema, we investigated the contribution of, on the one hand, the receptor binding sites and, in contrast, the lectin-like domain of the cytokine on pulmonary fluid reabsorption in in situ and in vivo flooded rat lungs. Receptor binding sites were blocked with the human soluble TNFR type 1 construct (sTNFR1), whereas the lectin-like domain was blunted with the oligosaccharide N,N′-diacetylchitobiose. We observed that in situ, TNF failed to stimulate alveolar liquid clearance, but did so together with the sTNFR1, and this activity was neutralized by N,N′-diacetylchitobiose. In vivo TNF inhibited liquid clearance, but activated it when complexed with the sTNFR1. A TNF-derived peptide mimic of the lectin-like domain activated fluid reabsorption in flooded lungs, and this activity was blunted by cotreatment with TNF. Our results thus indicate that in these models the receptor binding sites of TNF inhibit, whereas its lectin-like domain activates, edema reabsorption.