...Meir Raz; Richard A. Robbins; Clayton L. Kelling; Lisa C. Stine; George D. Leikauf; Stephen I. Rennard; John R. Spurzem 1. Acute bronchitis secondary to viral infection is associated with an influx of neutrophils. We hypothesized that bronchial epithelial cells are capable of releasing neutrophil...

... airways of the rat. Clinical Science (1986) 70,427-433 427 Nicotine does not cause bronchitis in the rat D. F. ROGERS*, DEBORAH A. WILLIAMS AND P. K. JEFFERY Department of Lung Pathology, Cardiothoracic Institute, Brompton Hospital, London (Received 26 Jidy/l November 1985; accepted 25 November 1985...

...G. M. Cochrane; J. G. Prior; C. B. Wolff 1. Arterial pH oscillations have been monitored in vivo in patients with well defined chronic obstructive bronchitis, asthma and clinical emphysema. 2. the patients with clinical emphysema were shown to differ from those with chronic obstructive bronchitis...

...B. Raffestin; H. Valette; J. L. Hebert; P. Duhaze; A. Lockhart 1. Pulmonary blood volume was measured in 39 patients with severe chronic bronchitis, of whom 29 had recently recovered from an acute exacerbation. P a,o 2 was below 10·3 kPa in all but five patients, P a,co 2 was above 5·6 kPa in 26...

...S. G. Spiro; H. L. Hahn; R. H. T. Edwards; N. B. Pride 1. The time-courses of the respiratory changes at the start of exercise were assesse in twenty middle-aged normal men and in twenty patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis with a moderate reduction in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV 1...

... in the former and inversely proportional in the latter case. 4. Sympathomimetic drugs, bradykinin and mucolytic drugs had no effect on the secretory index. 5. In cystic fibrosis, bronchitis and bronchiectasis gland size and not the disease process was the main determinant of the secretory index. 30 5 1972...