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J Appl Physiol 67: 488-492, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 67, Issue 1 488-492, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Measurement of alveolar pressure in closed-chest dogs during flow interruption

J. H. Bates, T. Abe, P. V. Romero and J. Sato
Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

We have developed a technique for installing alveolar capsules in dogs with intact chest wall, by exposing a region of parietal pleura between a pair of ribs and gluing the parietal and visceral pleura together around a small region of lung. This allows the direct measurement of alveolar pressure during spontaneous breathing. We measured alveolar pressure in normal dogs using this technique while suddenly interrupting flow at the trachea during passive expiration. Tracheal pressure exhibited a very rapid rise immediately on interruption that we showed to be composed of two distinct and roughly equal parts: one was the resistive pressure drop across the airways, and the other was a resistive pressure drop across tissues. By simultaneously measuring pleural pressure we showed that the tissues responsible were only in the chest wall and not in the lungs.


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