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J Appl Physiol 55: 113-120, 1983;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 55, Issue 1 113-120, Copyright © 1983 by American Physiological Society

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Parasympathetic and adrenergic contractile responses in canine trachea and bronchus

A. R. Leff, N. M. Munoz and S. G. Hendrix

We compared the sympathetic and parasympathetic contractile responses of tracheal and third-order bronchial smooth muscle simultaneously in 26 dogs in situ. Stimulus-response curves were generated by bilateral stimulation of the cervical vagus nerves in five dogs to determine the parameters (20 V, 15 Hz, 2-ms duration) causing maximal parasympathetic contraction in trachea and bronchus. In six adrenal-intact (ADi) and five adrenalectomized (ADx) dogs, sympathetically mediated alpha-adrenergic contraction was studied after muscarinic and beta-adrenergic blockade by administering intravenous (iv) 1,1-dimethyl-4-phenylpiperazinium iodide (DMPP). In ADi dogs, the maximal alpha-adrenergic contractile response to iv DMPP was 67.3 +/- 14.8% of the maximal parasympathetic response in trachea and 112 +/- 21% of the maximal parasympathetic response in bronchus (P less than 0.03). In ADx dogs, the maximal alpha-adrenergic-to-parasympathetic stimulation ratios were 17.6 +/- 1.3% in trachea and 41.4 +/- 2.5% in bronchus (P less than 0.001). Comparable relationships were also obtained in pharmacological studies of alpha-adrenergic and cholinergic responses in trachea and bronchus. We conclude that there is substantial heterogeneity in the physiological and pharmacological cholinergic and alpha-adrenergic contractile properties in trachea and bronchus. Relative to cholinergic contraction, both circulating catecholamines and sympathetic innervation cause substantially greater alpha-adrenergic contraction in bronchus than for tracheal smooth muscle.


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