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1 Research and Development Division, Smith Kline & French Laboratories, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Both meperidine and morphine produced bronchoconstriction in intact dogs at doses ranging from 0.5 to 2.5 mg/kg intravenously. The bronchoconstrictor effects of both morphine and meperidine were markedly reduced by bilateral vagotomy or chlorpheniramine. In the light of past work and present findings, it is probable that morphine and meperidine induce their bronchoconstrictor effects by a combination of central vagal stimulation and histamine release.
Accepted on April 21, 1965