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- Title
An In Vivo and In Vitro Evaluation of the Mutual Interactions between the Lung and the Large Intestine.
- Authors
Lei-Miao Yin; Guang-Quan Zhang; Xing-Ke Yan; Yu Wang; Yu-Dong Xu; Yong-Qing Yang
- Abstract
One of the most important theories of the traditional Chinese medicine is the exterior-interior relationship between the lung and the large intestine; so far, little direct experimental evidence has been reported to support such relationship. Here we for the first time investigated the mutual interactions between the lung and the large intestine by examining the relevancies between the pulmonary functions and the rectal resting pressure in the rat models of asthma and constipation. We also evaluated the effects of the lung homogenate and the large intestine homogenate on the isolated large intestine muscle strip and the isolated tracheal spiral, respectively. Our results showed that the pulmonary resistance and pulmonary compliance were closely related to the rectal resting pressure in the asthmatic rat model, while the rectal resting pressure was much correlated with the pulmonary resistance in the rat model of constipation. Moreover, it was shown that the lung homogenate could specifically contract the isolated large intestine muscle strip. Overall, this study provided new lines of evidence for the theory and highlighted the potential application in the treatment of the corresponding diseases.
- Subjects
LARGE intestine physiology; LUNG physiology; RECTUM physiology; ANALYSIS of variance; ANIMAL experimentation; ASTHMA; CONSTIPATION; PRESSURE; RATS; RESEARCH funding; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Medicine (eCAM), 2013, Vol 2013, p1
- ISSN
1741-427X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2013/695641