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Ozone and the Antibacterial Defense Mechanisms of the Murine Lung
Elliot Goldstein, MD;
Walter S. Tyler, DVM;
Paul D. Hoeprich, MD;
Carroll Eagle
Arch Intern Med. 1971;127(6):1099-1102.
Abstract
Ozone effect on antibacterial activity in vivo was investigated by simultaneously determining the physical removal and bactericidal activity rates of the murine lung. Mice were exposed to various concentrations of ozone for 17 hours prior to or 4 hours after infection with aerosols of Staphylococcus aureus labeled with radioactive phosphorus (32P). Bacterial inactivation was expressed as percent bactericidal activity and calculated by comparing numbers of viable bacteria in the lungs four to five hours after bacterial inhalation with numbers present initially minus numbers physically removed. Animals infected and then exposed to ozone showed a progressive decrease in percent pulmonary bactericidal activity which could not be accounted for by physical removal of bacteria. Exposure to ozone prior to infection caused severe ventilatory abnormalities and lesser decreases in bactericidal activity.
Author Affiliations
Davis, Calif
From the Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine (Drs. Goldstein and Hoeprich and Mr. Eagle), and the Department of Anatomy, School of Veterinary Medicine (Dr. Tyler), University of California, Davis.
Footnotes
Received for publication Oct 21, 1970; accepted Jan 21,1971.
Read in part before the Tenth Annual Hanford Biology Symposium on Pollution and Lung Biochemistry, Richland, Wash, June 5, 1970, jointly sponsored by the Battelle Memorial Institute—Pacific Northwest Laboratories, National Air Pollution Control Administration, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the US Atomic Energy Commission.
Reprint requests to Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616 (Dr. Goldstein).
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