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• NOx emissions contribute to ground-level ozone, which aggravates respiratory illnesses and causes lung inflammation, particularly for at-risk populations such as children, the elderly and those afflicted with asthma, emphysema, and other respiratory ailments.
It was expected that such findings might identify the rat model of elastase-induced emphysema as a model in which the diaphragmatic MHC changes that have been shown to result from emphysema in humans might be explored further.
Although most of the experimental work on adaptation of the diaphragm to emphysema has been performed in hamsters, rats also develop significant and often marked increases in lung volumes and compliance, and reductions in expiratory flows, after intratracheal administration of elastase [ 14 15 16 17 18 ] . MHC adaptation in emphysematous rat diaphragm has not been studied systematically.
Emphysema and irreversible airway limitation that is characteristic of chronic tobacco smoking are related to the destruction of elastin and the resulting loss of lung elastic recoil.
in the diaphragms of chronically swimming rats [ 28 ] . We found IIb mRNA expression to decrease by 31% and IIb MHC-determined fiber type to decrease by 35% in emphysema.