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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 57, 1147-1150, Copyright © 1994 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Prostacyclin production by different human grafts employed in coronary operations

A Sala, P Rona, G Pompilio, A Parolari, C Antona, P Biglioli, G Rossoni, LM Villa and F Berti
Department of Cardiac Surgery, I. Monzino Fundation, Milan, Italy.

Segments of human saphenous vein, internal mammary artery, right gastroepiploic artery, and inferior epigastric artery were incubated in vitro in Krebs-Henseleit solution and compared in terms of their capacity to generate and release into the medium 6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha (PGF1 alpha), the stable metabolite of prostacyclin. The four vascular conduits were also challenged with endothelin-1 (40 ng/mL), and accumulation of the lipidic material in the bathing fluid was also studied. The results obtained show clearly that under both normal and endothelin-1-stimulated conditions, the four vascular segments generate a substantial amount of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha. Multiple-comparisons analysis of the results indicates that the rank order in producing 6- keto-PGF1 alpha is as follows: inferior epigastric artery > internal mammary artery > right gastroepiploic artery > saphenous vein (p < 0.01). A similar order of potency was obtained in vascular conduits stimulated with endothelin-1. The rate of formation of immunoreactive 6- keto-PGF1 alpha under both normal and stimulated conditions by the inferior epigastric artery (normal, 301 +/- 8 pg/mg of tissue; stimulated, 519 +/- 15 pg/mg of tissue) was at 10 minutes more than 2 times (p < 0.01) that of the saphenous vein and about 1.5 times (p < 0.01) that of the right gastroepiploic artery.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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