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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2004 Jul;28(7):998–1004. doi: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000130805.75641.F4

Fig. 8.

Fig. 8

Desensitization of isoproterenol-stimulated CBF in rat tracheal rings exposed to ethanol over time. Rats were fed a liquid diet containing 0 (white bars) or 36% ethanol (black bars) for 1–5 weeks and sacrificed. Excised tracheal rings were assayed for ciliary beat frequency (CBF) in the presence of 100 μM isoproterenol (ISO) for 30 min. Bar caps represent SEM of six different animals. Data from each rat represent the average of 10 or more tracheal rings (*p ≤ 0.05 for rats fed 36% of their daily calories as ethanol compared with those sham-treated with liquid diet only).