DIFFERENTIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TO OZONE-INDUCED AIRWAYS HYPERREACTIVITY IN INBRED STRAINS OF MICE
DIFFERENTIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TO OZONE-INDUCED AIRWAYS HYPERREACTIVITY IN INBRED STRAINS OF MICE
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DOI:
10.3109/01902149509031755
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发表时间:
1995-07-01
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
KLEEBERGER, SR
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作者:
ZHANG, LY;LEVITT, RC;KLEEBERGER, SR
Individuals with heightened airways reactivity, such as asthmatics, may be at risk to inflammatory effects of oxidant air pollutants. In the inbred mouse, significant interstrain variation in airways reactivity to acetylcholine (ACh) and differential susceptibility to ozone (O-3)-induced airways inflammation has been described previously. This study used these murine models to test hypotheses that (1) O-3-induced hyperreactivity to ACh is a function of inherent baseline ACh reactivity, and (2) susceptibility to O-3-induced inflammation is associated with O-3-induced hyperreactivity. Strains (15-25 g, 6-8 weeks) with HYPERREACTIVE (DBA/2J, AKR/J, A/J), HYPOREACTIVE (C3H/HeJ, C57BL/6J, SJL/J), or INTERMEDIATE (129/J) phenotypes for ACh reactivity were exposed for 3 h to 2.0 ppm O-3 or air (control). ACh reactivity (25 and 50 mu g/kg, IV) was assessed 0 and 24 h after exposure. Relative to air controls, mean airways responses to 25 and 50 mu g/kg ACh 24 h post-O-3 increased significantly in the HYPERREACTIVE A/J strain (p < .05). Among HYPOREACTIVE strains, O-3 significantly (p < .05) increased the response to 50 mu g/kg ACh in C57BL/6J and SJL/J strains 24 h postexposure. A/J, C57BL/6J, and SJL/J mice are susceptible to O-3-induced lung injury. O-3 did not alter ACh reactivity in the other strains. O-3 also did not affect airways reactivity to methacholine or carbachol, observations consistent with the hypothesis that O-3-induced hyperreactivity to ACh may be due, in part, to O-3 effects on cholinesterase function. Treatment of C57BL/6J and A/J mice with an immunosuppressant (cyclophosphamide) or an anti-PMN antibody significantly (p < .05) attenuated circulating and infiltrating polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), but did not affect O-3-induced hyperreactivity. Therefore, O-3-induced ACh hyperreactivity was not a function of baseline reactivity, but correlated with susceptibility to acute O-3-induced airways injury and inflammation. Pharmacologic studies suggest that although PMNs were associated with O-3-induced hyperreactivity, these cells were not the cause of the effect, and that these two events are not codependent.