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JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 121, Issue 2, Pages 403-407Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2007.09.009
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methacholine challenge; bronchodilatation; bronchoprotection; spirometry; airway conductance; partial expiratory maneuver
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Background: Airway hyperresponsiveness in asthma is believed to be caused in part by the inability of deep inspirations to modulate airway narrowing. Objective: We investigated whether deep inspirations taken before or after methacholine inhalation attenuate bronchoconstriction in subjects with rhinitis. The results were compared with a group of healthy subjects. Methods: Ten subjects with rhinitis without asthma and 10 healthy subjects were studied on 3 different occasions at random. Bronchial challenges were performed with a single dose of methacholine known to decrease the FEV1 by 17% to 40%. Challenges were performed with avoidance of deep inspirations, or with 5 deep inspirations preceding or following the inhalation of methacholine. Lung function measurements were specific airway conductance, forced expiratory flow at 30% to 40% of vital capacity on a maneuver started from end-tidal inspiration (partial flow), and residual volume (partial residual volume). Results: In healthy subjects, deep inspirations taken after methacholine caused less changes in specific airway conductance, partial flow, and partial residual volume (P < .005 for all) than deep inspirations taken before methacholine or avoidance. In subjects with rhinitis, methacholine produced similar functional changes independently of the presence or absence of any deep inspirations. Compared with normal subjects, the attenuating effects of deep inspirations after methacholine on partial flow and partial residual volume were blunted in the subjects with rhinitis.
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