Method of treating pulmonary edema or pulmonary inflammation

A method for treating pulmonary edema and/or pulmonary inflammation in a subject, comprising:

• (a) identifying a subject who is suffering from pulmonary edema and/or pulmonary inflammation;
• and
• (b) administering to said subject at least one nucleotidase;
• wherein said nucleotidase is not potato apyrase.

A method of preventing or treating pulmonary edema and/or pulmonary inflammation comprising administering to a subject an effective amount of a nucleotidase selected from the group consisting of:

• adenosinetriphosphatase, apyrase, nucleoside-diphosphatase, ATP diphosphatase, nucleotide diphosphatase, ADP-ribose diphosphatase, nucleoside-triphosphatase, nucleoside-triphosphate diphosphatase, ADP-sugar diphosphatase, triphosphatase, thymidine-triphosphatase, UDP-sugar diphosphatase, phospholipid-translocating ATPase, magnesium-importing ATPase, cadmium-exporting ATPase, copper-exporting ATPase, zinc-exporting ATPase, proton-exporting ATPase, sodium-exporting ATPase, calcium-transporting ATPase, sodium/potassium-exchanging ATPase, hydrogen/potassium-exchanging ATPase, chloride-transporting ATPase, potassium-transporting ATPase, H(+)-transporting two-sector ATPase, sodium-transporting two-sector ATPase, arsenite-transporting ATPase, monosaccharide-transporting ATPase, oligosaccharide-transporting ATPase, maltose-transporting ATPase, glycerol-3-phosphate-transporting ATPase, polar-amino-acid-transporting ATPase, nonpolar-amino-acid-transporting ATPase, oligopeptide-transporting ATPase, nickel-transporting ATPase, sulfate-transporting ATPase, nitrate-transporting ATPase, phosphate-transporting ATPase, phosphonate-transporting ATPase, molybdate-transporting ATPase, Fe(3+)-transporting ATPase, polyamine-transporting ATPase, quatemary-amine-transporting ATPase, vitamin B12-transporting ATPase, iron-chelate-transporting ATPase, manganese-transporting ATPase, taurine-transporting ATPase, guanine-transporting ATPase, capsular-polysaccharide-transporting ATPase, lipopolysaccharide-transporting ATPase, teichoic-acid-transporting ATPase, heme-transporting ATPase, beta-glucan-transporting ATPase, peptide-transporting ATPase, xenobiotic-transporting ATPase, steroid-transporting ATPase, cadmium-transporting ATPase, fatty-acyl-CoA-transporting ATPase, alpha-factor-transporting ATPase, channel-conductance-controlling ATPase, protein-secreting ATPase, mitochondrial protein-transporting ATPase, chloroplast protein-transporting ATPase, Ag(+)-exporting ATPase, myosin ATPase, dynein ATPase, microtubule-severing ATPase, plus-end-directed kinesin ATPase, minus-end-directed kinesin ATPase, vesicle-fusing ATPase, peroxisome-assembly ATPase, proteasome ATPase, chaperonin ATPase, non-chaperonin molecular chaperone ATPase and nucleoplasmin ATPase.