Methacholine challenge testing is performed to measure the severity of bronchial reactivity (also called bronchial responsiveness, airway(s) reactivity, or bronchial hyperreactivity). The vast majority of normal individuals show no change in lung function...
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Bronchial asthma can be diagnosed when a patient develops the clinical manifestations of bronchial reactivity: wheezing, cough, tachypnea, and dyspnea. Occasionally, despite immunotherapy, bronchodilator therapy, and avoidance of the provocative factors, some asthmatic patients do not respond to treatment. Bronchial inhalation ...
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In the study population the lifetime prevalence of asthma (4,97% of n = 704) and point prevalence of bronchial hyperreactivity (26.7% of n = 558: positive bronchial challenge test with 400 (mu)g carbachol) could be attributed partially to the use of singl...
Methacholine challenge testing is performed to measure the severity of bronchial reactivity (also called bronchial responsiveness, airway(s) reactivity, or bronchial hyper reactivity). The vast majority of normal individuals show no change in lung functio...
ObjectivesTo measure the levels of exposure to nitrogen trichloride (NCl3) and aldehydes among cleaning and disinfecting workers in the atmosphere of food industry plants during cleaning and disinfecting operations, and to examine how they relate to irritant and chronic respiratory symptoms�which are indices of pulmonary function�and bronchial ...
Recent studies have challenged the generally accepted hypothesis that bronchial particle clearance is complete within 24 to 48 hours post-deposition. e studied bronchial retention of inert particles, using a bronchoscope and microspray nozzle to localize deposition in a bronchus ...
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Exposure studies were performed on five subjects with bronchial hyperreactivity (BHR) in an effort to better understand the relative importance of BHR in the physiologic and inflammatory responses of the lung following acute inhalation challenge to corn d...
A patient with bronchial asthma who developed a late asthmatic response to inhalation challenge with glacial acetic acid is presented. This is believed to be the first description of a reaction to this allergen in an asthmatic patient.
As genetically engineered mutant mice deficient in single genes are usually generated on a C57BL/6 background, to study mast cell trafficking in mutant mice, we initially investigated whether mast cells accumulated in bronchi in C57BL/6 mice challenged with OVA allergen acutely or chronically for 1 to 3 months. The total number of bronchial mast cells were ...
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As genetically engineered mutant mice deficient in single genes are usually generated on a C57BL/6 background, to study mast cell trafficking in mutant mice, we initially investigated whether mast cells accumulated in bronchi in C57BL/6 mice challenged with OVA allergen acutely or chronically for 1 to 3�months. The total number of bronchial mast cells ...
Work-related respiratory symptoms and bronchial reactivity were studied in 76 never-smoking farmers and in a control group not exposed to organic dusts. The farmers were divided into those working with vegetables/grain crops, animals but not swine, and with swine. The extent of symptoms was evaluated using a specific organic dust questionnaire. Bronchial ...
This is an updated overview of indications, contraindications, performance and interpretation of bronchial challenge tests. As speciality, the diagnostic step by step scheme comprises in addition to the clinical case history a detailed exposure (occupational) history, lung function testing, assessment of nonspecific bronchial ...
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Two postal questionnaire surveys were carried out among the adult population of Southampton aimed at clarifying the diagnostic criteria for asthma (study 1) and at testing the validity of symptoms so identified as diagnostic of bronchial hyper-reactivity (study 2). The questionnaires asked about respiratory symptoms and included three questions thought likely to disclose ...
BackgroundThe rapid growth of biomedical literature presents challenges for automatic text processing, and one of the challenges is abbreviation identification. The presence of unrecognized abbreviations in text hinders indexing algorithms and adversely affects information retrieval and extraction. Automatic ...
1 Asthma due to western red cedar (Thuja plicata) is well recognized, but has not been described frequently in the UK. Two patients who developed asthma and rhinitis due to occupational contact with western red cedar were studied. Both patients developed late asthmatic responses following bronchial challenge with western red cedar. 2 The ...
Twenty-two subjects complaining of cough, chest tightness and/or shortness of breath with normal chest radiograph and normal pulmonary function test results were challenged with methacoline. Venous histamine levels were measured before and just after methacoline challenge. For comparison, a single blood sample was obtained from 10 normal subjects. Blood ...
The effects of silymarin on bronchoconstriction induced by antigen challenge and on post-antigen challenge hyperresponsiveness to substance P were evaluated in sensitized guinea-pigs. Silymarin significantly decreased the bronchoconstriction due to antigen administration in the early phase of the response. In contrast, the dose-response curve for substance ...
Although the transcription factors are required for expression of the proinflammatory cytokines and immune proteins which are involved in airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation of bronchial asthma, the antigen-induced alterations of the transcription factors in bronchi have not yet been revealed. Therefore, in order to profile the alteration pattern of the transcription ...
One hundred and fourteen subjects with asthma induced by toluene diisocyanate were identified and the pattern of their bronchial responses to challenge with toluene diisocyanate was studied. An occupational type specific bronchial provocation test with toluene diisocyanate (10-25 parts per thousand million for 10-15 minutes) elicited ...
1. The influence of nedocromil sodium on the nasal and bronchial effects induced by allergen, platelet-activating factor (PAF), capsaicin, histamine and bradykinin aerosol challenge in ascaris-sensitized and pentobarbitone-anaesthetized pigs was studied. Blood flow changes in the bronchial and nasal circulation were measured with ...
BackgroundBronchial challenge tests are used to evaluate bronchial responsiveness in diagnosis and follow-up of asthmatic patients. Challenge induced cough has increasingly been recognized as a valuable diagnostic tool. Various stimuli and protocols have been employed. The aim of this study was to compare cough and ...
A relation between the prevalence of asthma and economic development has been suggested by studies in migrants and other surveys in developing countries. That this correlation might be partially explained by an increased intake of salt in the diet is supported by the observation that sales of table salt in the different regions of England and Wales are independently correlated with mortality from ...
Toluene diisocyanate (TDI) sensitivity accompanied by nonspecific bronchial hyperresponsiveness occurs in approximately 5% of occupationally exposed workers. We report the case of a 32-yr-old worker followed longitudinally after removal from isocyanate exposure. TDI reactivity was lost 11 mo after removal from exposure and nonspecific bronchial ...
