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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-4-6
pubmed:abstractText
To determine whether the irritant effect of cigarette smoke on breathing was affected by chronic exposure to smoke, two groups of sixteen young male Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed daily to fresh cigarette smoke (treated group) or air (control group) for 4-8 wk. Acute ventilatory response to cigarette smoke (50% concn, 6 ml volume) inhaled via a tracheal cannula was then studied under anesthesia and compared between the two groups. Inhalation of either cigarette smoke or gas phase smoke induced an immediate and transient apnea or bradypnea that was completely abolished by bilateral vagotomy in both groups, suggesting the involvement of vagal bronchopulmonary afferents. However, the apneic response was markedly attenuated in the treated group. Inhalation of cigarette smoke, but not the gas phase smoke, also induced a delayed tachypneic response after the initial apnea. The tachypneic response was again significantly smaller in treated rats, and this difference between the two groups was eliminated after vagotomy. On the basis of these results, we suggest that a reduced stimulatory effect on vagal bronchopulmonary sensory receptors was responsible for the attenuated ventilatory responses to smoke observed in treated rats.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
8750-7587
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
74
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
333-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Acute effect of cigarette smoke on breathing is attenuated by chronic smoking in rats.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40536-0084.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't