. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 3.

Published in final edited form as: Inhal Toxicol. 2014 Feb 6;26(4):240–249. doi: 10.3109/08958378.2014.880202

Table 3.

Effect of albuterol and methylprednisolone treatment on pulmonary cell populations in C57BL/6 mice 30 days following exposure to MWCNT.

Strain	Treatment	Exposure	Macrophages (×10³ cells)	Epithelial Cells (×10³ cells)	Neutrophils (×10³ cells)	Eosinophils (×10³ cells)	Lymphocytes (×10³ cells)	Total Cells (×10³ cells)
	Albuterol	Vehicle	105.63 ± 17.87	1.83 ± 0.74	0.094 ± 0.094	0.0 ± 0.0	0.72 ± 0.20	108.38 ± 18.19
	Albuterol	MWCNT	226.99 ± 19.02^*	4.39 ± 1.52	2.06 ± 0.42^*	0.37 ± 0.22	2.43 ± 0.96	236.25 ± 19.92^*
C57BL/6	Methyl- prednisolone	Vehicle	216.01 ± 27.79	1.76 ± 0.57	0.094 ± 0.094	0.55 ± 0.23	1.08 ± 0.49	219.50 ± 28.11
C57BL/6	Methyl- prednisolone	MWCNT	359.97 ± 44.03^*	4.18 ± 1.85	5.05 ± 1.26^*	0.95 ± 0.51	5.08 ± 1.26^*	375 ± 45.03^*

Values are mean ± SEM. Albuterol: vehicle n=4/group; MWCNT n=8/group; Methylprednisolone: n=6/group.

p < 0.05 vs. vehicle (10% surfactant saline).