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J Appl Physiol 89: 2373-2381, 2000;
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Vol. 89, Issue 6, 2373-2381, December 2000

Compliance of peripheral airways deduced from morphometry

Mitsushi Okazawa1, Peter D. Paré2, and Rodney K. Lambert3

1 Department of Respirology and Allergology, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Japan 470-1192; 2 UBC Pulmonary Research Laboratory, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada V6Z 1Y6; and 3 Institute of Fundamental Sciences-Physics, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand 5331

Insights into airway mechanics were sought by applying morphometric techniques to rabbit lungs fixed at several lung recoil pressures. Rabbits were treated with either nebulized carbachol followed by iv administration of carbachol or with saline solution (sham). The lungs were held at one of six values of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP; 10, 7, 4, 2, 0, and -4 cmH2O) while the animal was killed and formalin was circulated through the lungs. The lungs were removed and left in a bath of formalin for 24 h. Standard airway morphometric measurements were made on membranous bronchiole slices taken from representative blocks of tissue. Reductions in PEEP produced the expected reductions in lumen area in the carbachol-treated airways but not in the sham-treated airways for PEEP > 2 cmH2O. Sham-treated airways remained more open than expected until they collapsed into an oval shape at PEEPs between 4 and 2 cmH2O. The carbachol-treated airways exhibited this behavior at PEEP = -4 cmH2O. The smallest airways, which had relatively thicker walls, collapsed less than larger airways. We postulate that this behavior implies that peribronchial stress is greater than lumen pressure on collapse into the oval shape. Resistance to buckling increases with the thickness-to-radius ratio of the airway wall, which explains why the smallest airways are the most open. The development of epithelial folds appeared to follow the theoretical prediction of a previous study (Lambert RK, Codd SL, Alley MR, and Pack RJ. J Appl Physiol 77: 1206-1216, 1994).

rabbit; airway mechanics; carbachol; elastic buckling


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