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Pathologic Changes in the Respiratory Tract of Pigs Induced by Exposure to Feed Dust with or without Added Endotoxin

R. Jolie, L. Bäckström and L. Olson


 
ABSTRACT

We hypothesize that exposure to airborne dust and endotoxin induces an upregulation of inflammatory cell function and associated pathologic changes in the respiratory system of pigs. A continuous flow exposure chamber was build to investigate the effect of airborne dust and endotoxin in a more controlled environment. So far, pigs have been exposed for 5 weeks to chamber background (controls), dust (11.3 mg/m3) and dust (10 mg/m3) and ET (2 mg/m3). From the BAL analysis, we concluded that dust and dust+ET exposed pigs tend to respond by day 17 of the experiment.



Reprinted from Proceedings of the 1997 Beltwide Cotton Conferences pp. 205 - 208
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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