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J Appl Physiol 61: 2180-2185, 1986;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 61, Issue 6 2180-2185, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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Methacholine-induced airway reactivity of inbred rats

C. G. Wang, G. DiMaria, J. H. Bates, R. D. Guttmann and J. G. Martin

Dose-response curves to inhaled aerosolized methacholine chloride (MCh) were obtained in anesthetized spontaneously breathing rats. Thirty rats (10/strain), randomly selected from highly inbred ACI, Lewis (L), and Brown Norway (BN) strains and 40 rats (20/strain) from similarly inbred Wistar-Furth (WF) and Buffalo (Buf) strains were studied. Airway responses were quantitated from changes in pulmonary resistance (RL) and airway reactivity was calculated as the dose of MCh required to increase RL to 150% (ED150RL) and 200% (ED200RL) of base line. There were no statistically significant differences in ED150RL and ED200RL among the five rat strains. Large interindividual variability was present as evidenced by 128-fold differences in ED150RL and ED200RL between the least and most sensitive animal of the same strain. In contrast, seven animals studied repeatedly on different days had values of ED150RL that differed by an average of only 2.9-fold (range 1.6-5.3). Thirteen rats that were studied on two occasions separated by an interval of 3 mo showed no systematic changes in airway reactivity. We conclude that airway reactivity to inhaled methacholine in anesthetized nose-breathing rats is not strain related, and despite animals of a given strain being genetically identical, the variability in airway reactivity within strains suggests that environmental rather than genetic factors are the major determinants of that reactivity.


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