Abstract
The human respiratory pathogen Haemophilus influenzae (H.i.) induced bronchial hyperreactivity to histamine (1.0–8.0 μg/100 g b.w. i.v.) in vivo in anaesthetized spontaneously breathing guinea-pigs. This hyperreactivity was caused by a potentiated increase in pulmonary resistance. Decreases in dynamic compliance did not differ. Atropine prevented the potentiation at 1.0 and 2.0
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