Objective:To investigate the normative operation of bronchoalveolar lavage of rats.Methods:Adopt the intratracheal cannula with the diameter of 1.8mm to perform bronchoalveolar lavage.The left lung of the rat was lavaged with five 2.5ml aliquotos of normal saline.Every lavage was performed with 10 times instillation and with drawn very gently to bathe the airway suffciently.Furthermore the recovery of fluid was over 80 percent.Results:This lavaging method is simple and could be well repeated.Conclusions:This method can be looked as normative operation of broncholaveolar lavage of rats to be further investigated.