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J Appl Physiol 45: 840-845, 1978;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 45, Issue 6 840-845, Copyright © 1978 by American Physiological Society

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Maximum expiratory flow and transpulmonary pressure in the hamster

E. C. Lucey, B. R. Celli and G. L. Snider

Maximum expiratory flow was measured in 19 normal, anesthetized, tracheostomized, supine hamsters from records of forced deflation produced by the application of varying degrees of negative pressure to the tracheostomies of animals whose lungs had been previously inflated to a transpulmonary pressure (PL) of 25 cmH2O. Flow was measured with a pneumotachograph, volume with a constant-volume pressure plethysmograph and pleural surface pressure (Ppl) with a water-filled esophageal catheter. The esophageal pressure measurement overestimated Ppl and a simple technique was based on an estimate of the resting volume of the chest wall. This volume, at which the Ppl is zero, was calculated for anesthetized supine hamsters from the measurement of respiratory-system pressure and PL made independently of esophageal pressure and was found to be about 30% of vital capacity (VC). Flow limitation was present below 70% of VC with a tracheal deflation pressure of -30cmH2O. Negative effort dependence of flow was seen in small segments of the flow-volume curves. Mean +/- SD maximum expiratory flow at 50% VC was 52 +/- 9.5 ml/s or 9.1 VC/s. Upstream resistance was 0.09 +/- 0.03 cmH2O/ml per s.


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