PMID: 3755034Apr 1, 1986Paper

Protective and adaptive reactions of the air-conducting and respiratory portions of the lungs to exposure to atmospheric pollutants

Arkhiv anatomii, gistologii i émbriologii
T I Bonashevskaia, N B Kumpan

Abstract

A complex structural-functional investigation of protective-adaptive reactions of various parts in the lungs has been performed under inhalation of some toxic substances. To a continuous inhalation effect of 1,2-dichlorpropane, 132 non-inbred white rats have been subjected. At the first stage of the investigation, using specific loading tests, periods for formation of increased and decreased resistivity of the experimental animals have been defined. Under the given scheme of the experiment the state of a maximal resistivity develops by the 30th day of the influence, then it gradually decreases and in 60 days becomes significantly lower than in the control animals. Synchronous changes in resistivity and in loading of the respiratory organs are revealed. The structural-functional investigation of the pneumatic and respiratory parts of the lungs during the period of formation (in 5 days of the influence), at maximum (in 30 days of the influence) and at decreased resistivity (in 60 days of the influence) makes it possible to establish that functional activity of the aero-hematic, aero-epithelial barriers and the surfactant system of the lungs increases during the period of elevated resistivity and decreases at the stage of reduced ...Continue Reading

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