Meconium staining of the skin is a common event associated with fetal hypoxia, stillbirths, weak-born piglets, and neonatal mortality. Aspiration of meconium leads to meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS). This study was undertaken to assess the relationship between the degree of meconium staining of t...

The relationship between acute pulmonary cell injury and inflammatory response was investigated in rats killed 1, 3, and 7 days after tracheal inoculation with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Inoculation with LPS induced an influx of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) and a mild increase in pulm...

288 mice were divided into four groups and exposed to aerosols of P. haemolytica or S. aureus in four replicates. The numbers of bacteria were determined in the trachea and lungs of mice killed 0, 2, 4, 8, 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours after exposure. Bacterial deposition was greater in lungs than in trac...

A mass was removed from the nostril of a mule that exhibited unilateral epistaxis and nasal discharge. Impression smears revealed oval structures consistent with spores of Rhinosporidium seeberi. Microscopically, the mass was composed of fibrovascular granulomatous tissue containing sporangia R. see...

This study was designed to test whether intraperitoneally injected sodium hydrosulfide (NaHS) would mimic the pulmonary alterations induced by lethal peracute exposure to an atmosphere containing hydrogen sulfide. Groups of five Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to an atmosphere of either 2317.6 +/- ...

One of the major target organs of hydrogen sulphide gas is the lung. Exfoliation of upper respiratory epithelia and pulmonary edema are prominent effects. Various neuropeptides contained in afferent C-fibres are intimately associated with the epithelia of the conducting airways and are liberated upo...

The aim of this investigation was to study in mice the correlation between numbers of phagocytic cells in the bronchoalveolar space and the pulmonary clearance of bacteria. White mice were exposed to aerosols of P. haemolytica or S. aureus in 3 different experimental replicates. Another group of mic...

A method used to calculate the number of P. haemolytica reaching the lungs of calves during an aerosol exposure is described. This method is based on a linear relationship of bacterial deposition in lungs of mice and calves when exposed to the same bacterial aerosol.