Abstract:
:The resistance to airflow that develops in most obstructive processes takes place in the small airways. The aim of the present paper is to describe bronchial hysteresis morphometrically in a respiratory cycle model. As a working hypothesis, it is proposed that the changes that take place in the respiratory tract during the respiratory cycle are related to the bronchial size. Specimen rat lungs were organized into five groups: In the first group, the lungs were filled with a liquid fixative to 25 cm of H2O transpulmonary pressure. The following four groups were inflated with air and fixed through the pulmonary artery. Groups 2 and 3 were fixed at 10 and 20 cm transpulmonary pressure in inflation. The last two groups were fixed in deflation and, for this purpose, the transpulmonary pressure was increased to 27 cm and decreased to 20 and 10 cm, respectively. The lungs were processed for morphometrical study and the following variables were quantified: pulmonary volume, internal area, internal perimeter, wall area, internal area radius and bronchial wall radius. The diameter of the airways studied varied between 84.06 microm and 526.4 microm. The results were classified into three subgroups consisting of small, medium-sized and large bronchi. With a single exception--the internal area in the medium-sized bronchi inflated to 20 cm--all the results obtained in deflation were higher than those obtained in inflation. The internal area increased or decreased significantly upon raising or lowering the transpulmonary pressure respectively, in the small and medium-sized bronchi. The wall area in the large bronchi showed significant differences between inflation and deflation at 10 and 20 cm transpulmonary pressure. The wall area was modified significantly in the lungs fixed at 20 cm in the small bronchi and at 10 cm in medium-sized bronchi. The bronchial wall radius was significantly greater in the large bronchi and smaller in the small bronchi. The lumen of the medium-sized and small bronchi increases in inspiration and decreases in expiration. The wall thickness displayed differences between inflation and deflation. The most marked hysteresis was presented by the bronchial wall in the large bronchi. Our results suggest that the behavior of the bronchi varies according to their size.
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Histol Histopatholjournal_title
Histology and histopathologyauthors
Escolar JD,Escolar MA,Guzmán J,Roqués Mdoi
10.14670/HH-18.19subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-01-01 00:00:00pages
19-26issue
1eissn
0213-3911issn
1699-5848journal_volume
18pub_type
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