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

Table 2

The pulmonary compliance, the pulmonary resistance, and the rectal resting pressure of control and constipation 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	0.083±0.021	0.080±0.017	0.080±0.016	0.081±0.017	0.077±0.020	0.080±0.016	0.080±0.018	0.074±0.022	0.077±0.018	0.084±0.020
	Constipation	0.059±0.007^∗	0.057±0.007^∗	0.065±0.015	0.058±0.006^∗	0.059±0.005^∗	0.059±0.007^∗	0.059±0.006^∗	0.058±0.005	0.059±0.006^∗	0.058±0.006^∗
Pulmonary resistance (kPa/mL/s)	Control	0.096±0.018	0.095±0.016	0.096±0.016	0.097±0.015	0.097±0.015	0.112±0.043	0.098±0.017	0.095±0.020	0.088±0.010	0.086±0.008
	Constipation	0.093±0.012	0.093±0.014	0.096±0.017	0.098±0.018	0.098±0.019	0.094±0.017	0.096±0.019	0.095±0.017	0.096±0.017	0.096±0.015
Rectal resting pressure (kPa)	Control	0.072±0.099	0.067±0.092	0.048±0.027	0.051±0.023	0.063±0.068	0.048±0.017	0.077±0.082	0.082±0.078	0.102±0.127	0.068±0.073
	Constipation	0.019±0.020	0.052±0.066	0.055±0.072	0.034±0.046	0.069±0.071	0.053±0.073	0.042±0.070	0.089±0.101	0.056±0.069	0.029±0.047

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.