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Assessment of Respiratory Function in Conscious Mice by Double-chamber Plethysmography
Published on: July 10, 2018
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Abstract:
Relations between hyperventilation, hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) and bronchial asthma (BA) are not finally established. This study modelled HVS in 92 volunteers to investigate HVS effect on external respiration function (ERF), immune status and hormonal and amino regulation. HVS was found to induce significant shifts in regulating systems (adrenergic, cholinergic, serotoninergic, conticosteroids) function and to alter correlations between ERF and blood levels of immune cells carrying various CD- and HLA-DR markers. The HVS model can be used for the study of HV role in immunopathogenesis of BA.
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