Experimental study of modified yu ping feng powder on antibacterial adhesion of tracheal mucosa in mice model of chronic bronchitis]

In order to observe the influence of modified Yu Ping Feng San (MYPFS) on bacterial adhesion of tracheal mucosa, four experiments of bacterial adhesion in pneumatic tract were conducted, in which mice of chronic bronchitis model (CBM) induced by SO2 stimulation and another health control group breathed in aerosol contained Pseudomonas aeruginosa under the same condition were observed. The results showed that, with scanning electron microscopy, ultrastructural lesions on tracheal mucosa surface and adhesive bacterial number in CBM administrated MYPFS were far less than that in CBM without MYPFS (P < 0.001), and quantitative culture of Pseudomonas aeruginosa with tracheal tissue homogenate was also markedly reduced. However, the tracheal mucosa of healthy control animals were intact, the adhesive bacteria were not found. It is suggested that bacterial adhesion was closely related to the injury of tracheal-mucosa, and MYPFS could play a role of anti-bacterial adhesion through the protection of tracheal mucosa epithelium or reduction of pneumatic tract injury. These were quite in accordance with the theories of traditional Chinese medicine in "strengthening body resistance to eliminate the pathogenic factor", so that they provided experimental evidence for TCM tonics to prevent and treat infection of respiratory tract.