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Ambient levels of 0.2ppm ozone were recorded during a recent 2017 weather event in Texas, United States (EPA, 2007). This concentration or higher levels have been used in several human clinical studies during intermittent exercise (Miller et al., 2016c). Although ozone concentration of 0.8ppm used in this study is high relative to those used in human clinical studies, it has been shown that 0.2ppm ozone exposure during intermittent exercise can result in a dose that is 4–5 times higher than the dose encountered by resting rodent during inactivity period (Hatch et al., 2013). We selected PROP and MIFE to evaluate the role of βAR and GR activation in ozone-induced pulmonary injury/inflammation since these drugs have been validated for their receptor specificity (Alamo et al., 2017, Kubo et al., 2004). PROP, a non-selective βAR antagonist, blocks activity of both β1 and β2 AR. Although epinephrine is a potent agonist of virtually all AR (Molinoff, 1984), in this study we focused only on the role of βAR activity since these receptors are enriched in cardiopulmonary tissues and have a major role in autonomic regulation and innate immune homeostatic balance (Bible et al., 2015, Folwarczna et al., 2011, Hegstrand and Eichelman, 1983, Kolmus et al., 2015, Sato et al., 2010). MIFE, a GR antagonist, has been widely used to antagonize the GR in psychiatric disorders (Howland, 2013) and adrenal hyper-production of clodronate sale (Morgan and Laufgraben, 2013). Several experimental studies have validated its anti-GR activity in animal models (Navarro-Zaragoza et al., 2017, Sharrett-Field et al., 2013, Wang et al., 2014). Although these pharmacological agents have shown efficacy for both sexes, we focused on male WKY rats for this ozone study since the males of spontaneously hypertensive rats, which are derived from WKY, are more susceptible than females to pulmonary inflammation induced by another inhaled pollutant - tobacco smoke (Shen et al., 2016). Due to the fact that the tissue dose of ozone might influence the degree of vascular permeability and inflammation, we assessed breathing parameters to estimate the potential impact of ozone dose (Dye et al., 2015, Snow et al., 2016). It is noteworthy that no drug pretreatments affected ventilatory parameters in air-exposed rats. As we have observed in previous studies (Dye et al., 2015), all ozone-exposed rats regardless of drug pretreatment demonstrated increases in PenH and PEF, measures of labored breathing, but had no effect on minute volume, except for a small decrease only in PROP+MIFE rats. Since the manipulation of both AR and GR has been shown to change breathing parameters in humans (Antonelli-Incalzi and Pedone, 2007, Hirst and Lee, 1998), the observed small changes in MV only in PROP+MIFE group may be due to the combined βAR+GR blockade. Since only this group, but not PROP or MIFE alone, showed any reduction in minute volume after ozone exposure, it is not likely that the lung injury and inflammation changes are impacted by the differential ozone dose with different pretreatments. There are a number of potential mechanisms by which lung vascular permeability might be increased by ozone. An imbalance between peripheral sympathetic influence due to increased epinephrine and acute parasympathetic dominance on the heart can shift the blood flow from high resistant peripheral vasculature to low resistant pulmonary vasculature, leading to pulmonary microvascular leakage (Li and Pauluhn, 2017). Our previous work has shown that ozone increases circulating epinephrine with no change in norepinephrine (Miller et al., 2015, Miller et al., 2016b). Thus, lung permeability changes are likely influenced by epinephrine's effect on β2AR, which causes dilation of pulmonary vasculature, an effect that could be prevented by PROP antagonism of these receptors (Pourageaud et al., 2005). Since PROP and MIFE, each prevented ozone-induced lung microvascular leakage, it is possible that AR and GR effects are inter-related and/or centrally-mediated. Both drugs are known to cross the blood brain barrier and regulate expression of stress responses through their effects on the hypothalamus (Check et al., 2014, Neil-Dwyer et al., 1981). Interestingly, GR activation can also mediate effects of norepinephrine to regulate blood pressure (Shi et al., 2016).