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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 277: R1683-R1689, 1999;
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Vol. 277, Issue 6, R1683-R1689, December 1999

Flow reduces the amplitude and increases the frequency of lymphatic vasomotion: role of endothelial prostanoids

Akos Koller, Risuke Mizuno, and Gabor Kaley

Department of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595

Fluid dynamic forces have substantial effects on the movement of lymph and activity of lymph vessels. The effect of increases in intraluminal flow on spontaneous pumping activity of isolated collecting lymphatics has not yet been characterized in a condition in which the intraluminal pressure is constant. Thus, in afferent lymph microvessels isolated from rat iliac lymph nodes, changes in maximum (Dmax) and minimum (Dmin) diameter to increases in perfusate flow were investigated in the presence of a constant perfusion pressure of 6 cmH2O. Intraluminal flow was elicited by increases in the difference between outflow and inflow pressures (Pdiff, from 0 to 6 cmH2O). Diameters were measured by videomicroscopy. In response to increases in perfusate flow, Dmax and Dmin of lymphatics decreased from 157.5 ± 6.1 to 90.9 ± 5.6 µm and from 91.9 ± 5.3 to 66.3 ± 3.6 µm, respectively, whereas vasomotion frequency increased from 18.0 ± 0.7 min-1 to 23.4 ± 1.1 min-1 (at Pdiff of 4 cmH2O). Removal of extracellular Ca2+ abolished spontaneous diameter oscillations; under these conditions the passive diameter of lymphatics was 216.0 ± 7.1 µm and did not change in response to increases in perfusion. In the absence of endothelium, flow-induced changes in Dmax, Dmin, and oscillation frequency were eliminated. Nomega -nitro-L-arginine methyl ester, an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase, did not affect flow-induced changes in diameter of lymphatics. In contrast, indomethacin, an inhibitor of prostaglandin synthesis, or SQ-29,548, a PGH2/thromboxane A2 (PGH2/TxA2) receptor blocker, inhibited the perfusion-induced reduction of Dmax and Dmin of lymphatics and also the increase in the frequency of vasomotion. These findings suggest that the sensitivity of lymphatic endothelium to increases in intraluminal flow could provide an important local intrinsic mechanism for the control of lymphatic resistance by release of constrictor prostanoids PGH2/TxA2.

intraluminal flow; lymphatic vasomotion; amplitude; frequency; endothelium-derived constrictor factors


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