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Morphological features of the respiratory part in guinea pigs lung in dynamics of experimental allergic inflammatory process
Author(s) -
С. С. Попко
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
vìsnik morfologìï
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2616-6194
pISSN - 1818-1295
DOI - 10.31393/morphology-journal-2022-28(1)-08
Subject(s) - respiratory tract , ovalbumin , lung , respiratory system , pathology , lamellar granule , desquamation , immunology , inhalation , inflammation , respiratory epithelium , chemistry , medicine , anatomy , immune system
The main function of the components of the respiratory tract is gas exchange while maintaining homeostasis in lung, given the pathogenic and non-pathogenic elements of the environment contained in the inhaled air. Morphological changes of the components of the respiratory part in lung of human and animals of adaptive nature under the influence of various factors on the body today remain insufficiently studied. The aim of the study was to investigate the morphological changes of the components of the respiratory part of guinea pigs lung in the dynamics of experimental ovalbumin-induced allergic inflammation. We used histological and electron microscopic methods to study the lungs of 48 male guinea pigs in experimental ovalbumin-induced allergic inflammation, simulated by subcutaneous sensitization and subsequent intranasal inhalation with ovalbumin. Morphological changes of the components of the respiratory tract of the lungs were determined in the early and late phases of allergic inflammatory process at the optical and submicroscopic levels. The early phase (23rd and 30th days of the experiment) was characterized by a predominance of alterative and destructive changes, consisted in the desquamation of the alveolar epithelium with a violation of the blood-gas barrier and hemomicrocirculatory bed. Type II alveolar cells had lesions of varying severity in the form of the absence of lamellar bodies or disturbances in the formation of their contents, vacuolization of the cytoplasm, mitochondrial damage. In the late phase of the development of the allergic inflammatory process (36th and 44th days of the experiment) in the respiratory part of lung were dominated adaptive and restorative changes. In addition, we observed dilation of the lung alveoli and thinning of the interalveolar septa, which is a consequence of the cascade of reactions of the local neuroendocrine and immune systems of lung as a result of allergen action. Thus, experimental ovalbumin-induced allergic inflammatory process of the respiratory tract is accompanied by structural and functional changes in the components of the respiratory part in lung of guinea pigs in stages depending on the duration of the experiment.

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