An In Vivo and In Vitro Evaluation of the Mutual Interactions between the Lung and the Large Intestine

Table 1

The pulmonary compliance, the pulmonary resistance, and the rectal resting pressure of the control and asthmatic model of rats.

Items	Groups	Min 1	Min 2	Min 3	Min 4	Min 5	Min 6	Min 7	Min 8	Min 9	Min 10
Pulmonary; compliance (mL/kPa)	Control	−0.030±0.001	−0.026±0.001	−0.006±0.001	−0.040±0.001	−0.047±0.001	0.020±0.001	0.030±0.002	−0.021±0.001	−0.100±0.002	−0.040±0.002
	Asthma	−0.300±0.007	−0.620±0.010	−0.867±0.010^∗	−0.806±0.009^∗	−0.862±0.010^∗	−0.866±0.009^∗	−0.809±0.009^∗	−0.713±0.007^∗	−0.809±0.010^∗	−0.788±0.010^∗
Pulmonary; resistance (kPa/mL/s)	Control	−0.001±0.001	−0.001±0.002	−0.001±0.002	−0.001±0.002	−0.002±0.002	−0.001±0.005	−0.001±0.004	−0.001±0.004	0.001±0.008	0.001±0.007
	Asthma	0.012±0.012	0.029±0.029	0.112±0.033^#	0.186±0.028^#	0.109±0.029^#	0.082±0.030^#	0.060±0.017^#	0.018±0.015	0.014±0.010	0.008±0.006
Rectal resting; pressure (kPa)	Control	−0.050±0.142	−0.114±0.107	−0.075±0.149	−0.049±0.070	−0.018±0.147	−0.076±0.115	−0.028±0.113	−0.009±0.093	−0.026±0.177	0.022±0.108
	Asthma	0.197±0.401	0.013±0.108^&	−0.032±0.099	−0.062±0.107	−0.058±0.130	−0.047±0.107	−0.075±0.157	−0.008±0.116	−0.046±0.196	−0.096±0.169

Data were shown as mean ± SD (𝑛=8). The values of pulmonary resistance in the table were expressed as differential values subtracted from the corresponding baseline values. Statistical comparisons were made by the Student’s 𝑡-test. ^∗𝑃<0.05, compared to control; ^#𝑃<0.05, compared to control; ^&𝑃<0.05, compared to control.