Abstract
Summary
Chronic pulmonary emphysema was produced in rats by forcing them to swim to exhaustion each day for 90 days. The emphysematous changes in lungs were accompanied by increase in total circulating red cell volume and adrenal hypertrophy. The mild polycythemia could be secondary both to increased adrenocortical steroid output and hypoxia due to pulmonary emphysema.
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