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NO has been proposed as a modulator of vascular tone and structure in the pulmonary circulation, and previous studies using NOS inhibitors [ 1, 2] suggested that inhibition of NO increases acute hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction.
At high concentrations, it may be that NO reaches pulmonary vessels perfusing non-ventilated lung areas and worsens arterial oxygenation by inhibiting hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction as observed in patients 1, 2, 6, 8 and 15.
This suggests that either the duration of hypoxic exposure or exposure from neonatal life provided additional physiologic stress that was not seen in more mature animals [ 9].
[ 15], who found that eNOS protein levels were increased in rats with hypoxic pulmonary hypertension but not in those with chemical-induced (monocrotaline) or genetic (fawn-hooded rat) pulmonary hypertension [ 15].
In contrast to the observations with eNOS, iNOS message was increased but iNOS protein remained below the limit of detection in the lungs of hypoxic, hypertensive mice.