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Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 282: L1031-L1039, 2002. First published December 7, 2001; doi:10.1152/ajplung.00319.2001
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Vol. 282, Issue 5, L1031-L1039, May 2002

Vitamin A deficiency promotes bronchial hyperreactivity in rats by altering muscarinic M2 receptor function

Stephen E. McGowan1,2, Jennifer Smith2, Amey Jo Holmes1, Lori A. Smith2, Thomas R. Businga2, Mark T. Madsen3, Ulla C. Kopp1,2, and Joel N. Kline2

1 Department of Veterans Affairs Research Service and Departments of 2 Internal Medicine and 3 Radiology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242

Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) remains an important health problem among children in developing countries. Children living in these areas have a higher mortality from respiratory infections, which likely results in part from suboptimal nutrition, including VAD. Bronchial hyperreactivity can follow viral respiratory infections and may complicate the recovery. To investigate whether VAD promotes bronchial hyperreactivity, we have assessed methacholine-induced bronchoconstriction in VAD and vitamin A-sufficient rats. Bronchial constriction developed at lower concentrations of inhaled methacholine in VAD than in vitamin A-sufficient rats. This did not result from an increase in the bronchial wall thickness or the clearance of a small molecule (with a size similar to methacholine) from the air space. The function and abundance of the muscarinic M2 receptors in bronchial tissue were reduced in VAD rats, suggesting that this receptor may contribute to these animals' diminished ability to limit cholinergic-mediated bronchoconstriction. A similar reduction in muscarinic M2 receptor function has been observed in asthma. Vitamin A (retinol) and its congeners (retinoids) may be required to regulate bronchial responsiveness in addition to maintaining a normal bronchial epithelium.

asthma; retinoids; retinol; cholinergic


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