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The effects of granulocyte depletion with hydroxyurea on pulmonary responsiveness to aerosol histamine were studied in 10 chronically instrumented unanesthetized sheep. Sheep were studied when granulocyte counts were normal (B), after 3 days of hydroxyurea but before granulocyte counts had dropped below 700 cells/mm3 (H), and after granulocyte counts had fallen below 200 cells/mm3 (D). Hydroxyurea itself had no effect on aerosol histamine responsiveness and the results were unaffected by the order of experimentation. All 10 sheep were less responsive (P less than 0.05) to aerosol histamine when granulocyte depleted effective dose of histamine that caused a reduction to 65% of control dynamic compliance (ED65Cdyn = 23.98 +/- 4.70 mg/ml) compared with base line (ED65Cdyn = 7.06 +/- 1.86 mg/ml). Those sheep initially most responsive to aerosol histamine had the greatest attenuation in their airway responsiveness to aerosol histamine (P less than 0.05). There was a significant negative correlation between absolute granulocyte counts in peripheral blood and pulmonary responsiveness to aerosol histamine during base-line (B) condition (r = -0.74, P less than 0.05) and for the data as a whole [r = -0.69, P less than 0.05 (B + H + D)]. Circulating granulocytes and/or pulmonary inflammation may contribute to pulmonary responsiveness to bronchial challenge.
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