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. 2015 Feb 20;22(6):465–485. doi: 10.1089/ars.2014.5899

Table 1.

Changes in the Reactive Oxygen Species Production Under Hypoxia in Different Preparations

Tissue/preparation Hypoxia [ROS]i Technique of detection References
Isolated rabbit lung Minutes Lucigenin Paky et al. (108)
Isolated rat lungs, pulmonary artery ring, PASMCs Minutes Lucigenin, amplex red, dihydroethidium, H2DCF Archer et al. (6)
Isolated rabbit lung Minutes Lucigenin Weissmann et al. (174)
Calf pulmonary arteries Minutes Lucigenin Mohazzab and Wolin (93)
Rat pulmonary artery Minutes Lucigenin, amplex red, H2DCF Michelakis et al. (89)
Rat pulmonary artery Weeks L-012 (luminol analogue) amplex red Bonnet et al. (19)
Human PASMCs Hours Lucigenin, amplexred, dihydroethidium, H2DCF Mehta et al. (88)
Human PASMCs Minutes Dihydroethidium Wu et al. (176)
Isolated mouse lung Minutes Electron spin resonance Weissmann et al. (173)
Rat pulmonary arteries Minutes H2DCF Jernigan et al. (56, 57)
  Weeks    
Rat pulmonary arteries Hours Dihydroethidium Wang et al. (162)
Mouse pulmonary arteries, rabbit PASMCs Minutes H2DCF Paddenberg et al. (107)
Porcine pulmonary arteries Minutes Electron paramagnetic resonance, H2DCF, lucigenin Liu et al. (76)
  Weeks    
Calf PASMCs Minutes Lucigenin Marshall et al. (85)
Rat PASMCs Minutes H2DCF Killilea et al. (61)
Rat PASMCs Minutes Fluorescence resonance energy transfer probe, H2DCF Waypa et al. (165, 166)
Mouse PASMCs Minutes Cytochrome c reduction assay, H2DCF Rathore et al. (122, 123)
Mouse PASMCs Minutes H2DCF, lucigenin, Redox Sensor Red CC-1 Wang et al. (161)
Human PASMCs Hours Dihydroethidium Wu et al. (176)

Modified from Olschewski and Weir (104).

H2DCF, dichlorodihydrofluorescein; PASMC, pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell; ROS, reactive oxygen species.