Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 70, Issue 1 267-273, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Pathways of substance P stimulation of canine tracheal ciliary beat frequency

L. B. Wong, I. F. Miller and D. B. Yeates
Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago 60680.

Substance P (SP), an inflammatory neuropeptide, may be released by intraepithelial nerves in response to an irritant or inflammatory stimulus. To investigate the neural and humoral pathways mediating the response of tracheal ciliary beat frequency (CBF) to topically applied SP, CBF was measured on the ventral midtracheal surface of anesthetized beagles by using heterodyne-mode correlation analysis laser light scattering. In the first study, aerosolized SP, delivered to the lungs of eight beagle dogs, stimulated CBF in a dose-dependent manner from a baseline of 4.9 +/- 0.4 Hz to a maximum of 14.9 +/- 1.5 Hz at dose of 10(-7) M. In the second study, the tracheal lumen was isolated from the bronchial airways by inflating the cuff of an endotracheal tube near the carina. Intravenous hexamethonium bromide (2 mg/kg), ipratropium bromide (0.5 micrograms/kg), and indomethacin (2 mg/kg) were used as blocking agents to inhibit the nicotinic, muscarinic, and cyclooxygenase pathways, respectively. Aerosolized 10(-9), 10(-8), or 10(-7) M SP was delivered sequentially to the tracheal lumen for 3 min at 30-min intervals. SP caused two distinct CBF stimulatory episodes at 4 min (mean time of the maximal response) and at 18 min (mean time of the maximal response) after onset of delivery and returned to baseline after 25 min. SP stimulated CBF from the baseline of 5.1 +/- 0.4 Hz to a maximum of 14.2 +/- 2.5 Hz during the first episode (P less than 0.01) and to 10.4 +/- 0.6 Hz during the second episode (P less than 0.01) at dose of 10(-8) M. These responses were inhibited by all the blocking agents. These data suggest that SP stimulates CBF via a cyclooxygenase-dependent parasympathetic reflex.

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