PMID- 12045263 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20020701 LR - 20181113 IS - 0021-9738 (Print) IS - 1558-8238 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9738 (Linking) VI - 109 IP - 11 DP - 2002 Jun TI - Cytosolic phospholipase A(2) in hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction. PG - 1493-500 AB - Cytosolic phospholipase A(2) (cPLA(2)) releases arachidonic acid (AA) from phospholipids in cell membranes. To assess the role of cPLA(2) in hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV), we measured the increase in left lung pulmonary vascular resistance (LPVR) before and during hypoxia produced by left main stem bronchus occlusion (LMBO) in mice with and without a targeted deletion of the PLA2g4a gene that encodes cPLA(2alpha). LMBO increased LPVR in cPLA(2alpha)(+/+) mice but not in cPLA(2alpha)(-/-) mice. cPLA(2alpha)(+/+) mice were better able to maintain systemic oxygenation during LMBO than were cPLA(2alpha)(-/-) mice. Administration of a cPLA(2) inhibitor, arachidonyl trifluoromethyl ketone, blocked the LMBO-induced increase in LPVR in wild-type mice, while exogenous AA restored HPV in cPLA(2alpha)(-/-) mice. Intravenous angiotensin II infusion increased PVR similarly in cPLA(2alpha)(+/+) and cPLA(2alpha)(-/-) mice. Inhibitors of cyclooxygenase or nitric oxide synthase restored HPV in cPLA(2alpha)(-/-) mice. Breathing 10% oxygen for 3 weeks produced less right ventricular hypertrophy in cPLA(2alpha)(-/-) than in cPLA(2alpha)(+/+) mice, but restored HPV in cPLA(2alpha)(-/-) mice despite the continued absence of cPLA(2) activity. These results indicate that cPLA(2) contributes to the murine pulmonary vasoconstrictor response to hypoxia. Augmenting pulmonary vascular tone restores HPV in the absence of cPLA(2) activity. FAU - Ichinose, Fumito AU - Ichinose F AD - Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. ichinose@etherdome.mgh.harvard.edu FAU - Ullrich, Roman AU - Ullrich R FAU - Sapirstein, Adam AU - Sapirstein A FAU - Jones, Rosemary C AU - Jones RC FAU - Bonventre, Joseph V AU - Bonventre JV FAU - Serhan, Charles N AU - Serhan CN FAU - Bloch, Kenneth D AU - Bloch KD FAU - Zapol, Warren M AU - Zapol WM LA - eng GR - DK-02493/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - HL-42397/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 DK050305/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 DE013499/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL042397/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - DK-50305/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - HL-57172/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - P01-DE-13499/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - J Clin Invest JT - The Journal of clinical investigation JID - 7802877 RN - 0 (Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Eicosanoids) RN - 0 (Enzyme Inhibitors) RN - 11128-99-7 (Angiotensin II) RN - EC 3.1.1.32 (Phospholipases A) RN - S88TT14065 (Oxygen) RN - SY7Q814VUP (Calcium) RN - V55S2QJN2X (NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester) RN - XXE1CET956 (Indomethacin) SB - IM MH - Angiotensin II/metabolism MH - Animals MH - Calcium/metabolism MH - Cell Membrane/enzymology MH - Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors/pharmacology MH - Cytosol/*enzymology MH - Eicosanoids/metabolism MH - Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology MH - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry MH - Genotype MH - Hypoxia MH - Indomethacin/pharmacology MH - Lung/*enzymology MH - Mice MH - NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester/pharmacology MH - Oxygen/metabolism MH - Phospholipases A/*metabolism/*physiology MH - Time Factors MH - Vasoconstriction PMC - PMC150993 EDAT- 2002/06/05 10:00 MHDA- 2002/07/02 10:01 PMCR- 2002/06/01 CRDT- 2002/06/05 10:00 PHST- 2002/06/05 10:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2002/07/02 10:01 [medline] PHST- 2002/06/05 10:00 [entrez] PHST- 2002/06/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 14294 [pii] AID - 10.1172/JCI14294 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Clin Invest. 2002 Jun;109(11):1493-500. doi: 10.1172/JCI14294.