The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 71, 614-616, Copyright © 1976 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
The centineurogenic etiology of the respiratory distress syndrome. Protection afforded by anemia and pulmonary denervation against lung lesions of oxygen toxicity
G Moss, P Dworkin and AA Stein
For beagles respiring 100 per cent oxygen at ambient pressure, anemia
protected against the development of the lung lesions of oxygen toxicity.
Similarly, unilateral pulmonary denervation was protective of the affected
lung but not of the normally innervated, contralateral lung. This indicates
that the lung lesions are triggered by the toxic effect of elevated PO2 at
a remote site, most likely the sensitive central nervous system.