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Lung structure-respiratory function relationships in experimentally-induced bronchiolitis, bronchopneumonia and interstitial pneumonia in rats

Abstract

Histopathology and respiratory function of rats with three different types and distributions of lower lung inflammation were compared to better understand lung structure-function relationships. Rats were exposed 21 h/day for 7 days to 0.8 ppm ozone (O{sub 3}), sham-exposed as controls, or given 5 mg/kg bacterial endotoxin either intratracheally (ITE) or intraperitoneally (IPE). Respiratory function was measured 24 h after the end of treatment, than the rats were sacrificed and the distribution of inflammation was evaluated morphometrically. Chronic centriacinar inflammation with formation of new respiratory bronchioles caused an obstructive functional impairment in the O{sub 3} rats, which was clearly distinguished from the restrictive impairments resulting from acute inflammation in ITE and IPE rats. Only the magnitudes of changes related to the distribution of inflammation differentiated the ITE and IPE groups. Flow parameters previously thought sensitive to large airway resistance were changed in the O{sub 3} rats. Alveolar luminal inflammatory exudate affected quasistatic compliance more than septal inflammation in ITE and IPE rats. Quasistatic chord compliance was the most sensitive of three indices of pressure-volume relationships. The findings in this study improve the basis for interpreting respiratory function changes of rats. (author)
Publication Date:
Dec 01, 1988
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
LMF-121; INIS-XA-N-170
Resource Relation:
Other Information: 11 refs, 1 fig., 4 tabs; PBD: Dec 1988; Related Information: In: Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute annual report 1987-1988, by Mauderly, J.L.; Mewhinney, J.A.; Bechtold, W.E.; Sun, J.D.; Coons, T.A. (eds.), 659 pages.
Subject:
60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; INFLAMMATION; LUNGS; OZONE; PATHOLOGY; PHENOBARBITAL; RATS; TOXICITY
Sponsoring Organizations:
Office of Health and Environmental Research, U.S. Department of Energy (United States)
OSTI ID:
20547835
Research Organizations:
Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute, Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: Contract DE-AC04-76EV01013; TRN: XA04N1401003665
Availability:
Available from INIS in electronic form
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
page(s) 439-447
Announcement Date:
Feb 01, 2005

Citation Formats

Mauderly, J L, Madron, E de, and Harkema, J R. Lung structure-respiratory function relationships in experimentally-induced bronchiolitis, bronchopneumonia and interstitial pneumonia in rats. IAEA: N. p., 1988. Web.
Mauderly, J L, Madron, E de, & Harkema, J R. Lung structure-respiratory function relationships in experimentally-induced bronchiolitis, bronchopneumonia and interstitial pneumonia in rats. IAEA.
Mauderly, J L, Madron, E de, and Harkema, J R. 1988. "Lung structure-respiratory function relationships in experimentally-induced bronchiolitis, bronchopneumonia and interstitial pneumonia in rats." IAEA.
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title = {Lung structure-respiratory function relationships in experimentally-induced bronchiolitis, bronchopneumonia and interstitial pneumonia in rats}
author = {Mauderly, J L, Madron, E de, and Harkema, J R}
abstractNote = {Histopathology and respiratory function of rats with three different types and distributions of lower lung inflammation were compared to better understand lung structure-function relationships. Rats were exposed 21 h/day for 7 days to 0.8 ppm ozone (O{sub 3}), sham-exposed as controls, or given 5 mg/kg bacterial endotoxin either intratracheally (ITE) or intraperitoneally (IPE). Respiratory function was measured 24 h after the end of treatment, than the rats were sacrificed and the distribution of inflammation was evaluated morphometrically. Chronic centriacinar inflammation with formation of new respiratory bronchioles caused an obstructive functional impairment in the O{sub 3} rats, which was clearly distinguished from the restrictive impairments resulting from acute inflammation in ITE and IPE rats. Only the magnitudes of changes related to the distribution of inflammation differentiated the ITE and IPE groups. Flow parameters previously thought sensitive to large airway resistance were changed in the O{sub 3} rats. Alveolar luminal inflammatory exudate affected quasistatic compliance more than septal inflammation in ITE and IPE rats. Quasistatic chord compliance was the most sensitive of three indices of pressure-volume relationships. The findings in this study improve the basis for interpreting respiratory function changes of rats. (author)}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1988}
month = {Dec}
}