Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of tidal liquid ventilation (TLV) and liquid assisted high frequency oscillatory ventilation (LA-HFOV) on the contractile and relaxing properties of fetal ovine pulmonary arteries. 0.85 term lambs were subjected, after surfactant instillation, to 5 h of TLV or LA-HFOV (5 ml·kg<sup>–1</sup> perfluorocarbon liquid). After euthanasia of the animals, intrapulmonary arteries (fourth branch) were dissected and mounted in a myograph for isometric tension recording. Arteries from unventilated age-matched fetuses were also studied. The contractions induced by K<sup>+</sup>, and the thromboxane A<sub>2</sub> mimetic U46619 were not significantly different in the TLV and the LA-HFOV groups. Acetylcholine-induced relaxation was absent after TLV and LA-HFOV but present in unventilated animals. Sodium nitroprusside-induced relaxation was also similar after TLV and LA-HFOV, but reduced when the two groups were compared with unventilated fetuses. We conclude that after TLV and LA-HFOV the pulmonary arterial responses to receptor- and non receptor-mediated contraction and to endothelium-dependent and -independent relaxation were similar.
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