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Purinergic receptors in the carotid body as a new drug target for controlling hypertension. Nat Med 2016; 22:1151-1159. [PMID: 27595323 DOI: 10.1038/nm.4173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2016] [Accepted: 07/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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In view of the high proportion of individuals with resistance to antihypertensive medication and/or poor compliance or tolerance of this medication, new drugs to treat hypertension are urgently needed. Here we show that peripheral chemoreceptors generate aberrant signaling that contributes to high blood pressure in hypertension. We discovered that purinergic receptor P2X3 (P2rx3, also known as P2x3) mRNA expression is upregulated substantially in chemoreceptive petrosal sensory neurons in rats with hypertension. These neurons generate both tonic drive and hyperreflexia in hypertensive (but not normotensive) rats, and both phenomena are normalized by the blockade of P2X3 receptors. Antagonism of P2X3 receptors also reduces arterial pressure and basal sympathetic activity and normalizes carotid body hyperreflexia in conscious rats with hypertension; no effect was observed in rats without hypertension. We verified P2X3 receptor expression in human carotid bodies and observed hyperactivity of carotid bodies in individuals with hypertension. These data support the identification of the P2X3 receptor as a potential new target for the control of human hypertension.
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Sabino JPJ, Traslaviña GAA, Branco LG. Role of central hydrogen sulfide on ventilatory and cardiovascular responses to hypoxia in spontaneous hypertensive rats. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2016; 231:21-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2016.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2016] [Revised: 05/23/2016] [Accepted: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Ardell JL, Andresen MC, Armour JA, Billman GE, Chen PS, Foreman RD, Herring N, O'Leary DS, Sabbah HN, Schultz HD, Sunagawa K, Zucker IH. Translational neurocardiology: preclinical models and cardioneural integrative aspects. J Physiol 2016; 594:3877-909. [PMID: 27098459 DOI: 10.1113/jp271869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2016] [Accepted: 03/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Neuronal elements distributed throughout the cardiac nervous system, from the level of the insular cortex to the intrinsic cardiac nervous system, are in constant communication with one another to ensure that cardiac output matches the dynamic process of regional blood flow demand. Neural elements in their various 'levels' become differentially recruited in the transduction of sensory inputs arising from the heart, major vessels, other visceral organs and somatic structures to optimize neuronal coordination of regional cardiac function. This White Paper will review the relevant aspects of the structural and functional organization for autonomic control of the heart in normal conditions, how these systems remodel/adapt during cardiac disease, and finally how such knowledge can be leveraged in the evolving realm of autonomic regulation therapy for cardiac therapeutics.
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- J L Ardell
- University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,UCLA Neurocardiology Research Center of Excellence, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,UCLA Neurocardiology Research Center of Excellence, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- The Krannert Institute of Cardiology and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
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Li A, Roy SH, Nattie EE. An augmented CO2 chemoreflex and overactive orexin system are linked with hypertension in young and adult spontaneously hypertensive rats. J Physiol 2016; 594:4967-80. [PMID: 27061304 DOI: 10.1113/jp272199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2016] [Accepted: 04/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS Activation of central chemoreceptors by CO2 increases sympathetic nerve activity (SNA), arterial blood pressure (ABP) and breathing. These effects are exaggerated in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs), resulting in an augmented CO2 chemoreflex that affects both breathing and ABP. The augmented CO2 chemoreflex and the high ABP are measureable in young SHRs (postnatal day 30-58) and become greater in adult SHRs. Blockade of orexin receptors can normalize the augmented CO2 chemoreflex and the high ABP in young SHRs and normalize the augmented CO2 chemoreflex and significantly lower the high ABP in adult SHRs. In the hypothalamus, SHRs have more orexin neurons, and a greater proportion of them increase their activity with CO2 . The orexin system is overactive in SHRs and contributes to the augmented CO2 chemoreflex and hypertension. Modulation of the orexin system may be beneficial in the treatment of neurogenic hypertension. ABSTRACT Activation of central chemoreceptors by CO2 increases arterial blood pressure (ABP), sympathetic nerve activity and breathing. In spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs), high ABP is associated with enhanced sympathetic nerve activity and peripheral chemoreflexes. We hypothesized that an augmented CO2 chemoreflex and overactive orexin system are linked with high ABP in both young (postnatal day 30-58) and adult SHRs (4-6 months). Our main findings are as follows. (i) An augmented CO2 chemoreflex and higher ABP in SHRs are measureable at a young age and increase in adulthood. In wakefulness, the ventilatory response to normoxic hypercapnia is higher in young SHRs (mean ± SEM: 179 ± 11% increase) than in age-matched normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (114 ± 9% increase), but lower than in adult SHRs (226 ± 10% increase; P < 0.05). The resting ABP is higher in young SHRs (122 ± 5 mmHg) than in age-matched Wistar-Kyoto rats (99 ± 5 mmHg), but lower than in adult SHRs (152 ± 4 mmHg; P < 0.05). (ii) Spontaneously hypertensive rats have more orexin neurons and more CO2 -activated orexin neurons in the hypothalamus. (iii) Antagonism of orexin receptors with a dual orexin receptor antagonist, almorexant, normalizes the augmented CO2 chemoreflex in young and adult SHRs and the high ABP in young SHRs and significantly lowers ABP in adult SHRs. (iv) Attenuation of peripheral chemoreflexes by hyperoxia does not abolish the augmented CO2 chemoreflex (breathing and ABP) in SHRs, which indicates an important role for the central chemoreflex. We suggest that an overactive orexin system may play an important role in the augmented central CO2 chemoreflex and in the development of hypertension in SHRs.
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- Aihua Li
- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA
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Barnett WH, Abdala AP, Paton JFR, Rybak IA, Zoccal DB, Molkov YI. Chemoreception and neuroplasticity in respiratory circuits. Exp Neurol 2016; 287:153-164. [PMID: 27240520 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2016.05.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2015] [Revised: 04/22/2016] [Accepted: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The respiratory central pattern generator must respond to chemosensory cues to maintain oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) homeostasis in the blood and tissues. To do this, sensorial cells located in the periphery and central nervous system monitor the arterial partial pressure of O2 and CO2 and initiate respiratory and autonomic reflex adjustments in conditions of hypoxia and hypercapnia. In conditions of chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH), repeated peripheral chemoreceptor input mediated by the nucleus of the solitary tract induces plastic changes in respiratory circuits that alter baseline respiratory and sympathetic motor outputs and result in chemoreflex sensitization, active expiration, and arterial hypertension. Herein, we explored the hypothesis that the CIH-induced neuroplasticity primarily consists of increased excitability of pre-inspiratory/inspiratory neurons in the pre-Bötzinger complex. To evaluate this hypothesis and elucidate neural mechanisms for the emergence of active expiration and sympathetic overactivity in CIH-treated animals, we extended a previously developed computational model of the brainstem respiratory-sympathetic network to reproduce experimental data on peripheral and central chemoreflexes post-CIH. The model incorporated neuronal connections between the 2nd-order NTS neurons and peripheral chemoreceptors afferents, the respiratory pattern generator, and sympathetic neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla in order to capture key features of sympathetic and respiratory responses to peripheral chemoreflex stimulation. Our model identifies the potential neuronal groups recruited during peripheral chemoreflex stimulation that may be required for the development of inspiratory, expiratory and sympathetic reflex responses. Moreover, our model predicts that pre-inspiratory neurons in the pre-Bötzinger complex experience plasticity of channel expression due to excessive excitation during peripheral chemoreflex. Simulations also show that, due to positive interactions between pre-inspiratory neurons in the pre-Bötzinger complex and expiratory neurons in the retrotrapezoid nucleus, increased excitability of the former may lead to the emergence of the active expiratory pattern at normal CO2 levels found after CIH exposure. We conclude that neuronal type specific neuroplasticity in the pre-Bötzinger complex induced by repetitive episodes of peripheral chemoreceptor activation by hypoxia may contribute to the development of sympathetic over-activity and hypertension.
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol, UK
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol, UK
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- Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Lohmeier TE, Iliescu R, Tudorancea I, Cazan R, Cates AW, Georgakopoulos D, Irwin ED. Chronic Interactions Between Carotid Baroreceptors and Chemoreceptors in Obesity Hypertension. Hypertension 2016; 68:227-35. [PMID: 27160198 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.116.07232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2016] [Accepted: 02/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Carotid bodies play a critical role in protecting against hypoxemia, and their activation increases sympathetic activity, arterial pressure, and ventilation, responses opposed by acute stimulation of the baroreflex. Although chemoreceptor hypersensitivity is associated with sympathetically mediated hypertension, the mechanisms involved and their significance in the pathogenesis of hypertension remain unclear. We investigated the chronic interactions of these reflexes in dogs with sympathetically mediated, obesity-induced hypertension based on the hypothesis that hypoxemia and tonic activation of carotid chemoreceptors may be associated with obesity. After 5 weeks on a high-fat diet, the animals experienced a 35% to 40% weight gain and increases in arterial pressure from 106±3 to 123±3 mm Hg and respiratory rate from 8±1 to 12±1 breaths/min along with hypoxemia (arterial partial pressure of oxygen=81±3 mm Hg) but eucapnia. During 7 days of carotid baroreflex activation by electric stimulation of the carotid sinus, tachypnea was attenuated, and hypertension was abolished before these variables returned to prestimulation values during a recovery period. After subsequent denervation of the carotid sinus region, respiratory rate decreased transiently in association with further sustained reductions in arterial partial pressure of oxygen (to 65±2 mm Hg) and substantial hypercapnia. Moreover, the severity of hypertension was attenuated from 125±2 to 116±3 mm Hg (45%-50% reduction). These findings suggest that hypoxemia may account for sustained stimulation of peripheral chemoreceptors in obesity and that this activation leads to compensatory increases in ventilation and central sympathetic outflow that contributes to neurogenically mediated hypertension. Furthermore, the excitatory effects of chemoreceptor hyperactivity are abolished by chronic activation of the carotid baroreflex.
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- Thomas E Lohmeier
- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (T.E.L.); Department of Pharmacology (R.I.) and Department of Physiology (I.T.), University of Medicine and Pharmacy, "Gr. T. Popa," Iasi, Romania; Colonial Pipeline Company, Atlanta, GA (R.C.); CVRx, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (A.W.C., D.G.); and North Memorial Medical Center, Trauma Services, Robbinsdale, MN (E.D.I.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (T.E.L.); Department of Pharmacology (R.I.) and Department of Physiology (I.T.), University of Medicine and Pharmacy, "Gr. T. Popa," Iasi, Romania; Colonial Pipeline Company, Atlanta, GA (R.C.); CVRx, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (A.W.C., D.G.); and North Memorial Medical Center, Trauma Services, Robbinsdale, MN (E.D.I.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (T.E.L.); Department of Pharmacology (R.I.) and Department of Physiology (I.T.), University of Medicine and Pharmacy, "Gr. T. Popa," Iasi, Romania; Colonial Pipeline Company, Atlanta, GA (R.C.); CVRx, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (A.W.C., D.G.); and North Memorial Medical Center, Trauma Services, Robbinsdale, MN (E.D.I.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (T.E.L.); Department of Pharmacology (R.I.) and Department of Physiology (I.T.), University of Medicine and Pharmacy, "Gr. T. Popa," Iasi, Romania; Colonial Pipeline Company, Atlanta, GA (R.C.); CVRx, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (A.W.C., D.G.); and North Memorial Medical Center, Trauma Services, Robbinsdale, MN (E.D.I.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (T.E.L.); Department of Pharmacology (R.I.) and Department of Physiology (I.T.), University of Medicine and Pharmacy, "Gr. T. Popa," Iasi, Romania; Colonial Pipeline Company, Atlanta, GA (R.C.); CVRx, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (A.W.C., D.G.); and North Memorial Medical Center, Trauma Services, Robbinsdale, MN (E.D.I.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (T.E.L.); Department of Pharmacology (R.I.) and Department of Physiology (I.T.), University of Medicine and Pharmacy, "Gr. T. Popa," Iasi, Romania; Colonial Pipeline Company, Atlanta, GA (R.C.); CVRx, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (A.W.C., D.G.); and North Memorial Medical Center, Trauma Services, Robbinsdale, MN (E.D.I.)
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (T.E.L.); Department of Pharmacology (R.I.) and Department of Physiology (I.T.), University of Medicine and Pharmacy, "Gr. T. Popa," Iasi, Romania; Colonial Pipeline Company, Atlanta, GA (R.C.); CVRx, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (A.W.C., D.G.); and North Memorial Medical Center, Trauma Services, Robbinsdale, MN (E.D.I.)
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Mark AL, Somers VK. Obesity, Hypoxemia, and Hypertension: Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Implications. Hypertension 2016; 68:24-6. [PMID: 27160202 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.116.07338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Allyn L Mark
- From the Department of Internal Medicine, the Obesity Research and Education Initiative, and the Center for Hypertension Research, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City (A.L.M.); and Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (V.K.S.).
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- From the Department of Internal Medicine, the Obesity Research and Education Initiative, and the Center for Hypertension Research, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City (A.L.M.); and Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (V.K.S.)
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Koeners MP, Lewis KE, Ford AP, Paton JF. Hypertension: a problem of organ blood flow supply-demand mismatch. Future Cardiol 2016; 12:339-49. [PMID: 27091483 PMCID: PMC4926521 DOI: 10.2217/fca.16.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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This review introduces a new hypothesis that sympathetically mediated hypertensive diseases are caused, in the most part, by the activation of visceral afferent systems that are connected to neural circuits generating sympathetic activity. We consider how organ hypoperfusion and blood flow supply–demand mismatch might lead to both sensory hyper-reflexia and aberrant afferent tonicity. We discuss how this may drive sympatho-excitatory-positive feedback and extend across multiple organs initiating, or at least amplifying, sympathetic hyperactivity. The latter, in turn, compounds the challenge to sufficient organ blood flow through heightened vasoconstriction that both maintains and exacerbates hypertension.
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- Maarten P Koeners
- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Afferent Pharmaceuticals, 2929 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA, USA
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Kim SJ, Kim YJ, Kakall Z, Farnham MMJ, Pilowsky PM. Intermittent hypoxia-induced cardiorespiratory long-term facilitation: A new role for microglia. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2016; 226:30-8. [PMID: 27015670 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2016.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2016] [Revised: 03/18/2016] [Accepted: 03/18/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Intermittent hypoxia induces plasticity in neural networks controlling breathing and cardiovascular function. Studies demonstrate that mechanisms causing cardiorespiratory plasticity rely on intracellular signalling pathways that are activated by specific neurotransmitters. Peptides such as serotonin, PACAP and orexin are well-known for their physiological significance in regulating the cardiorespiratory system. Their receptor counterparts are present in cardiorespiratory centres of the brainstem medulla and spinal cord. Microglial cells are also important players in inducing plasticity. The phenotype and function of microglial cells can change based on the physiological state of the central nervous system. Here, we propose that in the autonomic nuclei of the ventral brainstem the relationship between neurotransmitters and neurokines, neurons and microglia determines the overall neural function of the central cardiorespiratory system.
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- Seung Jae Kim
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia; The Heart Research Institute, 7 Eliza Street, Newtown, Sydney 2042, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia; The Heart Research Institute, 7 Eliza Street, Newtown, Sydney 2042, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia; The Heart Research Institute, 7 Eliza Street, Newtown, Sydney 2042, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia; The Heart Research Institute, 7 Eliza Street, Newtown, Sydney 2042, Australia.
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Cardiorespiratory events in preterm infants: etiology and monitoring technologies. J Perinatol 2016; 36:165-71. [PMID: 26583939 DOI: 10.1038/jp.2015.164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Every year, an estimated 15 million infants are born prematurely (<37 weeks gestation) with premature birth rates ranging from 5 to 18% across 184 countries. Although there are a multitude of reasons for this high rate of preterm birth, once birth occurs, a major challenge of infant care includes the stabilization of respiration and oxygenation. Clinical care of this vulnerable infant population continues to improve, yet there are major areas that have yet to be resolved including the identification of optimal respiratory support modalities and oxygen saturation targets, and reduction of associated short- and long-term morbidities. As intermittent hypoxemia is a consequence of immature respiratory control and resultant apnea superimposed upon an immature lung, improvements in clinical care must include a thorough knowledge of premature lung development and pathophysiology that is unique to premature birth. In Part 1 of a two-part review, we summarize early lung development and diagnostic methods for cardiorespiratory monitoring.
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Salman IM. Current Approaches to Quantifying Tonic and Reflex Autonomic Outflows Controlling Cardiovascular Function in Humans and Experimental Animals. Curr Hypertens Rep 2016; 17:84. [PMID: 26363932 DOI: 10.1007/s11906-015-0597-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The role of the autonomic nervous system in the pathophysiology of human and experimental models of cardiovascular disease is well established. In the recent years, there have been some rapid developments in the diagnostic approaches used to assess and monitor autonomic functions. Although most of these methods are devoted for research purposes in laboratory animals, many have still found their way to routine clinical practice. To name a few, direct long-term telemetry recording of sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) in rodents, single-unit SNA recording using microneurography in human subjects and spectral analysis of blood pressure and heart rate in both humans and animals have recently received an overwhelming attention. In this article, we therefore provide an overview of the methods and techniques used to assess tonic and reflex autonomic functions in humans and experimental animals, highlighting current advances available and procedure description, limitations and usefulness for diagnostic purposes.
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- Ibrahim M Salman
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Prabhakar NR, Semenza GL. Regulation of carotid body oxygen sensing by hypoxia-inducible factors. Pflugers Arch 2015; 468:71-75. [PMID: 26265380 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-015-1719-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2015] [Revised: 06/25/2015] [Accepted: 07/02/2015] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Oxygen (O2) sensing by the carotid body and its chemosensory reflex is critical for homeostatic regulation of breathing and blood pressure. Carotid body responses to hypoxia are not uniform but instead exhibit remarkable inter-individual variations. The molecular mechanisms underlying variations in carotid body O2 sensing are not known. Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) and HIF-2 mediate transcriptional responses to hypoxia. This article reviews the emerging evidence that proper expression of the HIF-α isoforms is a key molecular determinant for carotid body O2 sensing. HIF-1α deficiency leads to a blunted carotid body hypoxic response, which is due to increased abundance of HIF-2α, elevated anti-oxidant enzyme activity, and a reduced intracellular redox state. Conversely, HIF-2α deficiency results in augmented carotid body sensitivity to hypoxia, which is due to increased abundance of HIF-1α, elevated pro-oxidant enzyme activity, and an oxidized intracellular redox state. Double heterozygous mice with equally reduced HIF-1α and HIF-2α showed no abnormality in redox state or carotid body O2 sensing. Thus, mutual antagonism between HIF-α isoforms determines the redox state and thereby establishes the set point for hypoxic sensing by the carotid body.
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- Nanduri R Prabhakar
- Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology of O2 Sensing, Biological Sciences Division, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
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- Institute for Cell Engineering; Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Oncology, Radiation Oncology, and Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. .,McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
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Weiss JW, Tamisier R, Liu Y. Sympathoexcitation and arterial hypertension associated with obstructive sleep apnea and cyclic intermittent hypoxia. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2015; 119:1449-54. [PMID: 26251511 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00315.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2015] [Accepted: 08/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is characterized by repetitive episodes of upper airway obstruction during sleep. These obstructive episodes are characterized by cyclic intermittent hypoxia (CIH), by sleep fragmentation, and by hemodynamic instability, and they result in sustained sympathoexcitation and elevated arterial pressure that persist during waking, after restoration of normoxia. Early studies established that 1) CIH, rather than sleep disruption, accounts for the increase in arterial pressure; 2) the increase in arterial pressure is a consequence of the sympathoactivation; and 3) arterial hypertension after CIH exposure requires an intact peripheral chemoreflex. More recently, however, evidence has accumulated that sympathoactivation and hypertension after CIH are also dependent on altered central sympathoregulation. Furthermore, although many molecular pathways are activated in both the carotid chemoreceptor and in the central nervous system by CIH exposure, two specific neuromodulators-endothelin-1 and angiotensin II-appear to play crucial roles in mediating the sympathetic and hemodynamic response to intermittent hypoxia.
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- J Woodrow Weiss
- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts;
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- Sleep Laboratory and EFCR, Pôle Rééducation et Physiologie, University Hospital, HP2 Laboratory (Hypoxia: Pathophysiology) INSERM ERI 17, EA 3745 Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France; and
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- First Afflicted Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Henan, China
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Enhanced Firing in NTS Induced by Short-Term Sustained Hypoxia Is Modulated by Glia-Neuron Interaction. J Neurosci 2015; 35:6903-17. [PMID: 25926465 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4598-14.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Humans ascending to high altitudes are submitted to sustained hypoxia (SH), activating peripheral chemoreflex with several autonomic and respiratory responses. Here we analyzed the effect of short-term SH (24 h, FIO210%) on the processing of cardiovascular and respiratory reflexes using an in situ preparation of rats. SH increased both the sympatho-inhibitory and bradycardiac components of baroreflex and the sympathetic and respiratory responses of peripheral chemoreflex. Electrophysiological properties and synaptic transmission in the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) neurons, the first synaptic station of afferents of baroreflexes and chemoreflexes, were evaluated using brainstem slices and whole-cell patch-clamp. The second-order NTS neurons were identified by previous application of fluorescent tracer onto carotid body for chemoreceptor afferents or onto aortic depressor nerve for baroreceptor afferents. SH increased the intrinsic excitability of NTS neurons. Delayed excitation, caused by A-type potassium current (IKA), was observed in most of NTS neurons from control rats. The IKA amplitude was higher in identified second-order NTS neurons from control than in SH rats. SH also blunted the astrocytic inhibition of IKA in NTS neurons and increased the synaptic transmission in response to afferent fibers stimulation. The frequency of spontaneous excitatory currents was also increased in neurons from SH rats, indicating that SH increased the neurotransmission by presynaptic mechanisms. Therefore, short-term SH changed the glia-neuron interaction, increasing the excitability and excitatory transmission of NTS neurons, which may contribute to the observed increase in the reflex sensitivity of baroreflex and chemoreflex in in situ preparation.
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Ratcliffe LEK, Pijacka W, McBryde FD, Abdala AP, Moraes DJ, Sobotka PA, Hart EC, Narkiewicz K, Nightingale AK, Paton JFR. CrossTalk opposing view: Which technique for controlling resistant hypertension? Carotid chemoreceptor denervation/modulation. J Physiol 2015; 592:3941-4. [PMID: 25225253 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.268227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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- L E K Ratcliffe
- CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre and School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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- CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre and School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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- Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre and School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 14049-900, SP, Brazil
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- The Ohio State University, 2015 Marywood Lane West, St Paul, MN, 55118, USA
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- CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre and School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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- Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Debinki 7c, 80-952, Gdansk, Poland
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- CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre and School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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- CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre and School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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Moraes DJA, Machado BH, Paton JFR. Carotid body overactivity induces respiratory neurone channelopathy contributing to neurogenic hypertension. J Physiol 2015; 593:3055-63. [PMID: 25900825 DOI: 10.1113/jp270423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2015] [Accepted: 04/19/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Why sympathetic activity rises in neurogenic hypertension remains unknown. It has been postulated that changes in the electrical excitability of medullary pre-sympathetic neurones are the main causal mechanism for the development of sympathetic overactivity in experimental hypertension. Here we review recent data suggesting that enhanced sympathetic activity in neurogenic hypertension is, at least in part, dependent on alterations in the electrical excitability of medullary respiratory neurones and their central modulation of sympatho-excitatory networks. We also present results showing a critical role for carotid body tonicity in the aetiology of enhanced central respiratory modulation of sympathetic activity in neurogenic hypertension. We propose a novel hypothesis of respiratory neurone channelopathy induced by carotid body overactivity in neurogenic hypertension that may contribute to sympathetic excess. Moreover, our data support the notion of targeting the carotid body as a potential novel therapeutic approach for reducing sympathetic vasomotor tone in neurogenic hypertension.
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- Davi J A Moraes
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 14049-900, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 14049-900, São Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Physiology and Pharmacology, Bristol CardioVascular, Medical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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de Brito Alves JL, Nogueira VO, Cavalcanti Neto MP, Leopoldino AM, Curti C, Colombari DSA, Colombari E, Wanderley AG, Leandro CG, Zoccal DB, Costa-Silva JH. Maternal protein restriction increases respiratory and sympathetic activities and sensitizes peripheral chemoreflex in male rat offspring. J Nutr 2015; 145:907-14. [PMID: 25934662 PMCID: PMC6619683 DOI: 10.3945/jn.114.202804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2014] [Accepted: 01/21/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Maternal protein restriction in rats increases the risk of adult offspring arterial hypertension through unknown mechanisms. OBJECTIVES The aims of the study were to evaluate the effects of a low-protein (LP) diet during pregnancy and lactation on baseline sympathetic and respiratory activities and peripheral chemoreflex sensitivity in the rat offspring. METHODS Wistar rat dams were fed a control [normal-protein (NP); 17% protein] or an LP (8% protein) diet during pregnancy and lactation, and their male offspring were studied at 30 d of age. Direct measurements of baseline arterial blood pressure (ABP), heart rate (HR), and respiratory frequency (Rf) as well as peripheral chemoreflex activation (potassium cyanide: 0.04%) were recorded in pups while they were awake. In addition, recordings of the phrenic nerve (PN) and thoracic sympathetic nerve (tSN) activities were obtained from the in situ preparations. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α) expression was also evaluated in carotid bifurcation through a Western blotting assay. RESULTS At 30 d of age, unanesthetized LP rats exhibited enhanced resting Rf (P = 0.001) and similar ABP and HR compared with the NP rats. Despite their similar baseline ABP values, LP rats exhibited augmented low-frequency variability (∼91%; P = 0.01). In addition, the unanesthetized LP rats showed enhanced pressor (P = 0.01) and tachypnoeic (P = 0.03) responses to peripheral chemoreflex activation. The LP rats displayed elevated baseline tSN activity (∼86%; P = 0.02) and PN burst frequency (45%; P = 0.01) and amplitude (53%; P = 0.001) as well as augmented sympathetic (P = 0.01) and phrenic (P = 0.04) excitatory responses to peripheral chemoreflex activation compared with the NP group. Furthermore, LP rats showed an increase of ∼100% in HIF-1α protein density in carotid bifurcation compared with NP rats. CONCLUSION Sympathetic-respiratory overactivity and amplified peripheral chemoreceptor responses, potentially through HIF-1α-dependent mechanisms, precede the onset of hypertension in juvenile rats exposed to protein undernutrition during gestation and lactation.
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- José L de Brito Alves
- Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Federal University of
Pernambuco, Vitoria de Santo Antão, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Federal University of
Pernambuco, Vitoria de Santo Antão, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão
Preto, São Paulo, Brazil,Department of Clinical Analyses, Toxicology and Food Sciences, School of
Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão
Preto, São Paulo, Brazil,Department of Clinical Analyses, Toxicology and Food Sciences, School of
Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão
Preto, São Paulo, Brazil,Department of Clinical Analyses, Toxicology and Food Sciences, School of
Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of Araraquara,
São Paulo State University, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of Araraquara,
São Paulo State University, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Federal University of Pernambuco,
Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Federal University of
Pernambuco, Vitoria de Santo Antão, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Federal University of Pernambuco,
Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Federal University of Pernambuco, Vitoria de Santo Antão, Pernambuco, Brazil;
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Zucker IH, Schultz HD, Patel KP, Wang H. Modulation of angiotensin II signaling following exercise training in heart failure. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2015; 308:H781-91. [PMID: 25681422 PMCID: PMC4398865 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00026.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2015] [Accepted: 02/04/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Sympathetic activation is a consistent finding in the chronic heart failure (CHF) state. Current therapy for CHF targets the renin-angiotensin II (ANG II) and adrenergic systems. Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and ANG II receptor blockers are standard treatments along with β-adrenergic blockade. However, the mortality and morbidity of this disease is still extremely high, even with good medical management. Exercise training (ExT) is currently being used in many centers as an adjunctive therapy for CHF. Clinical studies have shown that ExT is a safe, effective, and inexpensive way to improve quality of life, work capacity, and longevity in patients with CHF. This review discusses the potential neural interactions between ANG II and sympatho-excitation in CHF and the modulation of this interaction by ExT. We briefly review the current understanding of the modulation of the angiotensin type 1 receptor in sympatho-excitatory areas of the brain and in the periphery (i.e., in the carotid body and skeletal muscle). We discuss possible cellular mechanisms by which ExT may impact the sympatho-excitatory process by reducing oxidative stress, increasing nitric oxide. and reducing ANG II. We also discuss the potential role of ACE2 and Ang 1-7 in the sympathetic response to ExT. Fruitful areas of further investigation are the role and mechanisms by which pre-sympathetic neuronal metabolic activity in response to individual bouts of exercise regulate redox mechanisms and discharge at rest in CHF and other sympatho-excitatory states.
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- Irving H Zucker
- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
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Ehrhardt J, Schwab M, Finn S, Guenther A, Schultze T, Witte OW, Rupprecht S. Sleep Apnea and Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis. Chest 2015; 147:1029-1036. [DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-1655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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Jaźwiec P, Gać P, Jurdziak M, Poręba M, Mazur G, Sobieszczańska M, Poręba R. Volume of carotid bodies and cardiac autonomic function in patients with essential hypertension. Auton Neurosci 2015; 190:26-32. [PMID: 25817902 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2015.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2014] [Revised: 01/30/2015] [Accepted: 03/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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PURPOSE Determination of the relationship between the estimated total volume of the carotid bodies (VrCB+lCB), assessed by computed tomography angiography (CTA), and the autonomic cardiac function in patients with essential hypertension (EH). MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 69 patients with diagnosed and pharmacologically treated EH. The estimated volume of each carotid body (CB) was evaluated on the basis of scans obtained in the CTA of carotid arteries, using the following formula: 4/3×π×half of transverse dimension of CB in axial projection×half of longitudinal dimension of CB in the axial projection×half of craniocaudal dimension of CB in the sagittal/coronal projection. Cardiac autonomic function was assessed using time domain analysis of heart rate variability (HRV). RESULTS The mean values of SDNNi, rMSSD and pNN50 at 24-h monitoring, during daily activity and during night rest, were significantly lower in patients with hypertension with the values of VrCB+lCB≥median compared to the group of hypertensive patients with the values of VrCB+lCB<median. Moreover, in patients with EH with the values of VrCB+lCB≥median, the mean values of SDNN were lower during daily activity. Based on the regression analysis, it was found out that the higher values of VrCB+lCB are an independent risk factor in HRV reduction (expressed as a reduction in the rMSSD). CONCLUSION In patients with EH, a relationship between the volume of CB, assessed by CTA of carotid arteries, and autonomic cardiac function seems to be probable.
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- Przemysław Jaźwiec
- Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, 4th Military Hospital, Weigla 5, Wroclaw PL 50-981, Poland.
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- Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, 4th Military Hospital, Weigla 5, Wroclaw PL 50-981, Poland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Occupational Diseases and Hypertension, Wroclaw Medical University, Borowska 213, Wroclaw PL 50-556, Poland
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Wroclaw Medical University, Marcinkowskiego 1, Wroclaw PL 50-368, Poland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Occupational Diseases and Hypertension, Wroclaw Medical University, Borowska 213, Wroclaw PL 50-556, Poland
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Wroclaw Medical University, Marcinkowskiego 1, Wroclaw PL 50-368, Poland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Occupational Diseases and Hypertension, Wroclaw Medical University, Borowska 213, Wroclaw PL 50-556, Poland
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Fudim M, Groom KL, Laffer CL, Netterville JL, Robertson D, Elijovich F. Effects of carotid body tumor resection on the blood pressure of essential hypertensive patients. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 9:435-42. [PMID: 26051925 DOI: 10.1016/j.jash.2015.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Revised: 03/02/2015] [Accepted: 03/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Removal of carotid body (CB) improves animal models of hypertension (HTN) and heart failure, via withdrawal of chemoreflex-induced sympathetic activation. Effect of CB tumor (CBT) resection on blood pressure (BP) in subjects with HTN is unknown. A retrospective analysis of 20 subjects with HTN (BP≥140/90 mmHg or anti-hypertensives use) out of 134 with CBT resection. Short-term (30 days from surgery) and long-term (slope of regressions on time over the entire follow-up) changes in BP and heart rate were adjusted for covariates (interval between readings, total follow-up, number of readings and changes in therapy). Age and duration of HTN were 56±4 and 9±5 years. Adjusted short-term decreases in systolic (SBP: -9.9±3.1, p<0.001) and pulse pressures (PP: -7.9±2.7, p<0.002) were significant and correlated with their respective long-term changes (SBP: r=0.47, p=0.047; PP: r=0.54, p=0.019). There was a strong relationship between adjusted short-term changes in SBP and PP (r=0.64, p<0.004). Six (50% of responders or 33% of the total) had short-term falls of SBP ≥10 mmHg and of PP ≥ 5 mmHg. First study to show that unilateral CBT resection is associated with sustained reduction of BP in hypertensive patients. Targeted CB chemoreflex removal could play a role in the therapy of human HTN.
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- Marat Fudim
- Internal Medicine Department, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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- Division of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, The Vanderbilt Comprehensive Hypertension Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; Autonomic Dysfunction Center, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, The Vanderbilt Comprehensive Hypertension Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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TASK channels in arterial chemoreceptors and their role in oxygen and acid sensing. Pflugers Arch 2015; 467:1013-25. [PMID: 25623783 PMCID: PMC4428840 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-015-1689-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2014] [Revised: 01/06/2015] [Accepted: 01/07/2015] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Arterial chemoreceptors play a vital role in cardiorespiratory control by providing the brain with information regarding blood oxygen, carbon dioxide, and pH. The main chemoreceptor, the carotid body, is composed of sensory (type 1) cells which respond to hypoxia or acidosis with a depolarising receptor potential which in turn activates voltage-gated calcium entry, neurosecretion and excitation of adjacent afferent nerves. The receptor potential is generated by inhibition of Twik-related acid-sensitive K(+) channel 1 and 3 (TASK1/TASK3) heterodimeric channels which normally maintain the cells' resting membrane potential. These channels are thought to be directly inhibited by acidosis. Oxygen sensitivity, however, probably derives from a metabolic signalling pathway. The carotid body, isolated type 1 cells, and all forms of TASK channel found in the type 1 cell, are highly sensitive to inhibitors of mitochondrial metabolism. Moreover, type1 cell TASK channels are activated by millimolar levels of MgATP. In addition to their role in the transduction of chemostimuli, type 1 cell TASK channels have also been implicated in the modulation of chemoreceptor function by a number of neurocrine/paracrine signalling molecules including adenosine, GABA, and serotonin. They may also be instrumental in mediating the depression of the acute hypoxic ventilatory response that occurs with some general anaesthetics. Modulation of TASK channel activity is therefore a key mechanism by which the excitability of chemoreceptors can be controlled. This is not only of physiological importance but may also offer a therapeutic strategy for the treatment of cardiorespiratory disorders that are associated with chemoreceptor dysfunction.
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Prabhakhar NR, Joyner MJ. Tasting arterial blood: what do the carotid chemoreceptors sense? Front Physiol 2015; 5:524. [PMID: 25642193 PMCID: PMC4294136 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2014] [Accepted: 12/20/2014] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The carotid bodies are sensory organs that detect the chemical composition of the arterial blood. The carotid body sensory activity increases in response to arterial hypoxemia and the ensuing chemoreflex regulates vital homeostatic functions. Recent studies suggest that the carotid bodies might also sense arterial blood glucose and circulating insulin levels. This review focuses on how the carotid bodies sense O2, glucose, and insulin and some potential implications of these sensory functions on physiological regulation and in pathophysiological conditions. Emerging evidence suggests that carbon monoxide (CO)-regulated hydrogen sulfide (H2S), stemming from hypoxia, depolarizes type I cells by inhibiting certain K+ channels, facilitates voltage-gated Ca2+ influx leading to sensory excitation of the carotid body. Elevated CO and decreased H2S renders the carotid bodies insensitive to hypoxia resulting in attenuated ventilatory adaptations to high altitude hypoxia, whereas reduced CO and high H2S result in hypersensitivity of the carotid bodies to hypoxia and hypertension. Acute hypoglycemia augments the carotid body responses to hypoxia but that a prolonged lack of glucose in the carotid bodies can lead to a failure to sense hypoxia. Emerging evidence also indicates that carotid bodies might sense insulin directly independent of its effect on glucose, linking the carotid bodies to the pathophysiological consequences of the metabolic syndrome. How glucose and insulin interact with the CO-H2S signaling is an area of ongoing study.
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- Nanduri R Prabhakhar
- Institute for Integrative Physiology, Center for Systems Biology of O2 Sensing, The University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA
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Moraes DJA, Machado BH. Electrophysiological properties of laryngeal motoneurones in rats submitted to chronic intermittent hypoxia. J Physiol 2015; 593:619-34. [PMID: 25433075 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.283085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2014] [Accepted: 11/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS The respiratory control of the glottis by laryngeal motoneurones is characterized by inspiratory abduction and post-inspiratory adduction causing decreases and increases in upper airway resistance, respectively. Chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH), an important component of obstructive sleep apnoea, exaggerated glottal abduction (before inspiration), associated with active expiration and decreased glottal adduction during post-inspiration. CIH increased the inspiratory and decreased the post-inspiratory laryngeal motoneurone activities, which is not associated to changes in their intrinsic electrophysiological properties. We conclude that the changes in the respiratory network after CIH seem to be an adaptive process required for an appropriated pulmonary ventilation and control of upper airway resistance under intermittent episodes of hypoxia. ABSTRACT To keep an appropriate airflow to and from the lungs under physiological conditions a precise neural co-ordination of the upper airway resistance by laryngeal motoneurones in the nucleus ambiguus is essential. Chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH), an important component of obstructive sleep apnoea, may alter these fine mechanisms. Here, using nerve and whole cell patch clamp recordings in in situ preparations of rats we investigated the effects of CIH on the respiratory control of the upper airway resistance, on the electrophysiological properties of laryngeal motoneurones in the nucleus ambiguus, and the role of carotid body (CB) afferents to the brainstem on the underlying mechanisms of these effects. CIH rats exhibited longer pre-inspiratory and lower post-inspiratory superior laryngeal nerve activities than control rats. These changes produced exaggerated glottal abduction (before inspiration) and decreased glottal adduction during post-inspiration, indicating a reduction of upper airway resistance during these respiratory phases after CIH. CB denervation abolished these changes produced by CIH. Regarding choline acetyltransferase positive-laryngeal motoneurones, CIH increased the firing frequency of inspiratory and decreased the firing frequency of post-inspiratory laryngeal motoneurones, without changes in their intrinsic electrophysiological properties. These data show that the effects of CIH on the upper airway resistance and laryngeal motoneurones activities are driven by the integrity of CB, which afferents induce changes in the central respiratory generators in the brainstem. These neural changes in the respiratory network seem to be an adaptive process required for an appropriated pulmonary ventilation and control of upper airway resistance under intermittent episodes of hypoxia.
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- Davi J A Moraes
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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Iturriaga R, Andrade DC, Del Rio R. Enhanced carotid body chemosensory activity and the cardiovascular alterations induced by intermittent hypoxia. Front Physiol 2014; 5:468. [PMID: 25520668 PMCID: PMC4251310 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2014] [Accepted: 11/14/2014] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The carotid body (CB) plays a main role in the maintenance of the oxygen homeostasis. The hypoxic stimulation of the CB increases the chemosensory discharge, which in turn elicits reflex sympathetic, cardiovascular, and ventilatory adjustments. An exacerbate carotid chemosensory activity has been associated with human sympathetic-mediated diseases such as hypertension, insulin resistance, heart failure, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Indeed, the CB chemosensory discharge becomes tonically hypereactive in experimental models of OSA and heart failure. Chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH), a main feature of OSA, enhances CB chemosensory baseline discharges in normoxia and in response to hypoxia, inducing sympathetic overactivity and hypertension. Oxidative stress, increased levels of ET-1, Angiotensin II and pro-inflammatory cytokines, along with a reduced production of NO in the CB, have been associated with the enhanced carotid chemosensory activity. In this review, we will discuss new evidence supporting a main role for the CB chemoreceptor in the autonomic and cardiorespiratory alterations induced by intermittent hypoxia, as well as the molecular mechanisms involved in the CB chemosensory potentiation.
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- Rodrigo Iturriaga
- Laboratorio de Neurobiología, Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Neurobiología, Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratory of Cardiorespiratory Control, Center of Biomedical Research, Universidad Autónoma de Chile Santiago, Chile
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Marcus NJ, Del Rio R, Schultz HD. Central role of carotid body chemoreceptors in disordered breathing and cardiorenal dysfunction in chronic heart failure. Front Physiol 2014; 5:438. [PMID: 25505417 PMCID: PMC4241833 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2014] [Accepted: 10/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Oscillatory breathing (OB) patterns are observed in pre-term infants, patients with cardio-renal impairment, and in otherwise healthy humans exposed to high altitude. Enhanced carotid body (CB) chemoreflex sensitivity is common to all of these populations and is thought to contribute to these abnormal patterns by destabilizing the respiratory control system. OB patterns in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients are associated with greater levels of tonic and chemoreflex-evoked sympathetic nerve activity (SNA), which is associated with greater morbidity and poor prognosis. Enhanced chemoreflex drive may contribute to tonic elevations in SNA by strengthening the relationship between respiratory and sympathetic neural outflow. Elimination of CB afferents in experimental models of CHF has been shown to reduce OB, respiratory-sympathetic coupling, and renal SNA, and to improve autonomic balance in the heart. The CB chemoreceptors may play an important role in progression of CHF by contributing to respiratory instability and OB, which in turn further exacerbates tonic and chemoreflex-evoked increases in SNA to the heart and kidney.
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- Noah J Marcus
- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE, USA
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- Laboratory of Cardiorespiratory Control, Center of Biomedical Research, Universidad Autónoma de Chile Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE, USA
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Ameer OZ, Hildreth CM, Phillips JK. Sympathetic overactivity prevails over the vascular amplifier phenomena in a chronic kidney disease rat model of hypertension. Physiol Rep 2014; 2:2/11/e12205. [PMID: 25413325 PMCID: PMC4255812 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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We examined whether increased sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) accounts for enhanced depressor responses to ganglionic blockade in the Lewis polycystic kidney (LPK) model of chronic kidney disease (CKD) or whether it reflects increased vascular responses to vasodilation (vascular amplifier). Under urethane anesthesia, depressor responses to ganglionic blockade (hexamethonium, 0.5–40 mg/kg i.v.), and direct vasodilation (sodium nitroprusside [SNP], 2.5–40 μg/kg i.v. and adenosine, 3–300 μg/kg i.v.) were compared in the LPK with normotensive Lewis and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) (total n = 37). Hexamethonium (8 mg/kg) produced a greater depressor response in the LPK (−51 ± 3 mmHg) compared with Lewis (−31 ± 3 mmHg, P <0.05) but not SHR (−46 ± 3 mmHg). In LPK, the ratio of the hexamethonium/vasodilator MAP responses was greater when compared with Lewis (hexamethonium/SNP 1.34 ± 0.1 vs. 0.9 ± 0.09 and hexamethonium/adenosine: 2.28 ± 0.3 vs. 1.16 ± 0.1, both P <0.05) but not SHR. Results for systolic blood pressure (SBP) were comparable. The slope of the relationship between the fall in SBP induced by hexamethonium and normalized low frequency (LFnu) power was also greater in the LPK (17.93 ± 3.26 mmHg/LFnu) compared with Lewis (2.78 ± 0.59 mmHg/LFnu, P =0.001) and SHR (3.36 ±0.72 mmHg/LFnu, P =0.003). These results indicate that in the LPK, sympathetic activity predominates over any vascular amplifier effect, supporting increased sympathetic vasomotor tone as a major contributor to hypertension in this model of CKD. We investigated whether enhanced depressor responses to the ganglionic blocker hexamethonium is due to sympathetic overactivity or exaggerated vascular responses to vasodilation (vascular amplifier) in the Lewis polycystic kidney (LPK) rodent model of chronic kidney disease (CKD) compared to Lewis and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). The main finding of our study is that sympathetic overactivity predominates over vascular amplification in response to ganglionic blockade in the LPK, indicating that increased sympathetic vasomotor tone is a major contributor to the hypertension in this model of CKD.
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- Omar Z Ameer
- The Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- The Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- The Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Nunes AR, Holmes AP, Conde SV, Gauda EB, Monteiro EC. Revisiting cAMP signaling in the carotid body. Front Physiol 2014; 5:406. [PMID: 25389406 PMCID: PMC4211388 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2014] [Accepted: 10/01/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Chronic carotid body (CB) activation is now recognized as being essential in the development of hypertension and promoting insulin resistance; thus, it is imperative to characterize the chemotransduction mechanisms of this organ in order to modulate its activity and improve patient outcomes. For several years, and although controversial, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) was considered an important player in initiating the activation of the CB. However, its relevance was partially displaced in the 90s by the emerging role of the mitochondria and molecules such as AMP-activated protein kinase and O2-sensitive K+ channels. Neurotransmitters/neuromodulators binding to metabotropic receptors are essential to chemotransmission in the CB, and cAMP is central to this process. cAMP also contributes to raise intracellular Ca2+ levels, and is intimately related to the cellular energetic status (AMP/ATP ratio). Furthermore, cAMP signaling is a target of multiple current pharmacological agents used in clinical practice. This review (1) provides an outline on the classical view of the cAMP-signaling pathway in the CB that originally supported its role in the O2/CO2 sensing mechanism, (2) presents recent evidence on CB cAMP neuromodulation and (3) discusses how CB activity is affected by current clinical therapies that modify cAMP-signaling, namely dopaminergic drugs, caffeine (modulation of A2A/A2B receptors) and roflumilast (PDE4 inhibitors). cAMP is key to any process that involves metabotropic receptors and the intracellular pathways involved in CB disease states are likely to involve this classical second messenger. Research examining the potential modification of cAMP levels and/or interactions with molecules associated with CB hyperactivity is currently in its beginning and this review will open doors for future explorations.
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- Ana R Nunes
- CEDOC, Chronic Diseases Research Center, NOVA Medical School/Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal
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- School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK
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- CEDOC, Chronic Diseases Research Center, NOVA Medical School/Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal
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- Neonatology Research Laboratories, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA
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- CEDOC, Chronic Diseases Research Center, NOVA Medical School/Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal
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Expression of neurotrophic factors and their receptors in the carotid body of spontaneously hypertensive rats. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2014; 202:6-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2014.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2014] [Revised: 06/25/2014] [Accepted: 06/25/2014] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Lung ventilation fluctuates widely with behavior but arterial PCO2 remains stable. Under normal conditions, the chemoreflexes contribute to PaCO2 stability by producing small corrective cardiorespiratory adjustments mediated by lower brainstem circuits. Carotid body (CB) information reaches the respiratory pattern generator (RPG) via nucleus solitarius (NTS) glutamatergic neurons which also target rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) presympathetic neurons thereby raising sympathetic nerve activity (SNA). Chemoreceptors also regulate presympathetic neurons and cardiovagal preganglionic neurons indirectly via inputs from the RPG. Secondary effects of chemoreceptors on the autonomic outflows result from changes in lung stretch afferent and baroreceptor activity. Central respiratory chemosensitivity is caused by direct effects of acid on neurons and indirect effects of CO2 via astrocytes. Central respiratory chemoreceptors are not definitively identified but the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) is a particularly strong candidate. The absence of RTN likely causes severe central apneas in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome. Like other stressors, intense chemosensory stimuli produce arousal and activate circuits that are wake- or attention-promoting. Such pathways (e.g., locus coeruleus, raphe, and orexin system) modulate the chemoreflexes in a state-dependent manner and their activation by strong chemosensory stimuli intensifies these reflexes. In essential hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea and congestive heart failure, chronically elevated CB afferent activity contributes to raising SNA but breathing is unchanged or becomes periodic (severe CHF). Extreme CNS hypoxia produces a stereotyped cardiorespiratory response (gasping, increased SNA). The effects of these various pathologies on brainstem cardiorespiratory networks are discussed, special consideration being given to the interactions between central and peripheral chemoreflexes.
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- Patrice G Guyenet
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Dick TE, Mims JR, Hsieh YH, Morris KF, Wehrwein EA. Increased cardio-respiratory coupling evoked by slow deep breathing can persist in normal humans. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2014; 204:99-111. [PMID: 25266396 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2014.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2014] [Revised: 09/19/2014] [Accepted: 09/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Slow deep breathing (SDB) has a therapeutic effect on autonomic tone. Our previous studies suggested that coupling of the cardiovascular to the respiratory system mediates plasticity expressed in sympathetic nerve activity. We hypothesized that SDB evokes short-term plasticity of cardiorespiratory coupling (CRC). We analyzed respiratory frequency (fR), heart rate and its variability (HR&HRV), the power spectral density (PSD) of blood pressure (BP) and the ventilatory pattern before, during, and after a 20-min epoch of SDB. During SDB, CRC and the relative PSD of BP at fR increased; mean arterial pressure decreased; but HR varied; increasing (n = 3), or decreasing (n = 2) or remaining the same (n = 5). After SDB, short-term plasticity was not apparent for the group but for individuals differences existed between baseline and recovery periods. We conclude that a repeated practice, like pranayama, may strengthen CRC and evoke short-term plasticity effectively in a subset of individuals.
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- Thomas E Dick
- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States; Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States.
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
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- Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
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Prabhakar NR, Peers C. Gasotransmitter regulation of ion channels: a key step in O2 sensing by the carotid body. Physiology (Bethesda) 2014; 29:49-57. [PMID: 24382871 PMCID: PMC3929115 DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00034.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Carotid bodies detect hypoxia in arterial blood, translating this stimulus into physiological responses via the CNS. It is long established that ion channels are critical to this process. More recent evidence indicates that gasotransmitters exert powerful influences on O2 sensing by the carotid body. Here, we review current understanding of hypoxia-dependent production of gasotransmitters, how they regulate ion channels in the carotid body, and how this impacts carotid body function.
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- Nanduri R Prabhakar
- Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology of O2 Sensing, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; and
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Fitzgerald RS. Carotid body: a new target for rescuing neural control of cardiorespiratory balance in disease. Front Physiol 2014; 5:304. [PMID: 25191272 PMCID: PMC4138501 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2014] [Accepted: 07/25/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Significant insight into the mechanisms involved in chronic heart failure (CHF) have been provided by Schultz and his associates at the University of Nebraska Medical Center with the use of pacing-induced heart failure rabbits. Critical among the CHF mechanisms was the role of the carotid body (CB). The stimulated CB produces a wide array of systemic reflex responses; certainly those in the cardiopulmonary (CP) system are the most important in CHF. This generates a question as to whether the CB could serve as a target for some kind of treatment to reestablish control of cardiorespiratory balance in CHF. Any treatment would have to be based on a solid understanding of the mechanisms of chemosensing by the CB as well as the transducing of that sensing into neural activity sent to the medullary centers and regions of autonomic outflow to the periphery. Two avenues of treatment could be to (1) silence or attenuate the CB's neural output pharmacologically and (2) excise the CBS. There is a long history of CB removal mostly as a remedy for chronic obstructive lung disease. Results have been inconclusive as to the effectiveness of this procedure. But if carefully planned, the procedure might be a helpful treatment.
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- Robert S Fitzgerald
- Departments of Environmental Health Sciences, of Physiology, and of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Baltimore, MD, USA
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We review the substantial recent progress made in understanding the underlying mechanisms controlling breathing and the applicability of these findings to selected human diseases. Emphasis is placed on the sites of central respiratory rhythm and pattern generation as well as newly described functions of the carotid chemoreceptors, the integrative nature of the central chemoreceptors, and the interaction between peripheral and central chemoreception. Recent findings that support critical contributions from cortical central command and muscle afferent feedback to exercise hyperpnoea are also reviewed. These basic principles, and the evidence supporting chemoreceptor and ventilatory control system plasticity during and following constant and intermittent hypoxaemia and stagnant hypoxia, are applied to: 1) the pathogenesis, consequences and treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea; and 2) exercise hyperpnoea and its control and limitations with ageing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure.
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- Jerome A Dempsey
- John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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Sá RWM, Borges GSM, Chianca DA, De Oliveira LB, Cardoso LM. Chemoreflex control of the cardiovascular system remains altered after recovery from low protein diet early in life. Auton Neurosci 2014; 185:134-7. [PMID: 25027241 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2014.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2014] [Revised: 06/09/2014] [Accepted: 06/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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This study aimed to evaluate the cardiovascular component of the arterial chemoreflex in rats recovered from low protein diet. Male Fischer rats were randomly divided into control and recovered (R-PR) groups after weaning. R-PR rats were fed with low protein diet for 35days and recovered under normal protein diet for 70days. Control rats received normal protein diet for 105days. Arterial chemoreflex was elicited by intravenous injection of KCN. Results showed that pressor response of the chemoreflex was increased in R-PR. Data suggest that protein restriction may alter cardiovascular response to chemical activation of the chemoreflex after recovery.
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- R W M Sá
- Federal University of Ouro Preto, Department of Biological Sciences/NUPEB Campus Universitário Morro do Cruzeiro, Ouro Preto, MG 35.400-000, Brazil
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- Federal University of Ouro Preto, Department of Biological Sciences/NUPEB Campus Universitário Morro do Cruzeiro, Ouro Preto, MG 35.400-000, Brazil
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- Federal University of Ouro Preto, Department of Biological Sciences/NUPEB Campus Universitário Morro do Cruzeiro, Ouro Preto, MG 35.400-000, Brazil
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- Federal University of Ouro Preto, Department of Biological Sciences/NUPEB Campus Universitário Morro do Cruzeiro, Ouro Preto, MG 35.400-000, Brazil
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- Federal University of Ouro Preto, Department of Biological Sciences/NUPEB Campus Universitário Morro do Cruzeiro, Ouro Preto, MG 35.400-000, Brazil.
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Alnima T, Kroon AA, de Leeuw PW. Baroreflex activation therapy for patients with drug-resistant hypertension. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 2014; 12:955-62. [PMID: 25017430 DOI: 10.1586/14779072.2014.931226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Uncontrolled or resistant hypertension is still a major problem facing many physicians daily in the clinic. Several new therapies are being developed to help those patients whose blood pressure does not respond sufficiently to regular antihypertensive medication. One of these promising therapies is electrical activation of the carotid sinus baroreflex. In this overview, the authors predominantly summarize the background, efficacy and safety of this promising treatment with its latest achievements in patients with resistant hypertension. The authors also discuss certain issues that need further clarification before this therapy can be added to the common treatment guidelines of hypertension.
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- Teba Alnima
- Maastricht University Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Peng YJ, Yuan G, Khan S, Nanduri J, Makarenko VV, Reddy VD, Vasavda C, Kumar GK, Semenza GL, Prabhakar NR. Regulation of hypoxia-inducible factor-α isoforms and redox state by carotid body neural activity in rats. J Physiol 2014; 592:3841-58. [PMID: 24973414 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.273789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Previous studies reported that chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) results in an imbalanced expression of hypoxia-inducible factor-α (HIF-α) isoforms and oxidative stress in rodents, which may be due either to the direct effect of CIH or indirectly via hitherto uncharacterized mechanism(s). As neural activity is a potent regulator of gene transcription, we hypothesized that carotid body (CB) neural activity contributes to CIH-induced HIF-α isoform expression and oxidative stress in the chemoreflex pathway. Experiments were performed on adult rats exposed to CIH for 10 days. Rats exposed to CIH exhibited: increased HIF-1α and decreased HIF-2α expression; increased NADPH oxidase 2 and decreased superoxide dismutase 2 expression; and oxidative stress in the nucleus tractus solitarius and rostral ventrolateral medulla as well as in the adrenal medulla (AM), a major end organ of the sympathetic nervous system. Selective ablation of the CB abolished these effects. In the AM, sympathetic activation by the CB chemoreflex mediates CIH-induced HIF-α isoform imbalance via muscarinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated Ca(2+) influx, and the resultant activation of mammalian target of rapamycin pathway and calpain proteases. Rats exposed to CIH presented with hypertension, elevated sympathetic activity and increased circulating catecholamines. Selective ablation of either the CB (afferent pathway) or sympathetic innervation to the AM (efferent pathway) abolished these effects. These observations uncover CB neural activity-dependent regulation of HIF-α isoforms and the redox state by CIH in the central and peripheral nervous systems associated with the chemoreflex.
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- Ying-Jie Peng
- Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology for O2 Sensing, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology for O2 Sensing, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology for O2 Sensing, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology for O2 Sensing, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology for O2 Sensing, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology for O2 Sensing, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology for O2 Sensing, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology for O2 Sensing, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Institute for Cell Engineering, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Oncology, Radiation Oncology and Biological Chemistry, and McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology for O2 Sensing, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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Zoccal DB, Furuya WI, Bassi M, Colombari DSA, Colombari E. The nucleus of the solitary tract and the coordination of respiratory and sympathetic activities. Front Physiol 2014; 5:238. [PMID: 25009507 PMCID: PMC4070480 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2014] [Accepted: 06/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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It is well known that breathing introduces rhythmical oscillations in the heart rate and arterial pressure levels. Sympathetic oscillations coupled to the respiratory activity have been suggested as an important homeostatic mechanism optimizing tissue perfusion and blood gas uptake/delivery. This respiratory-sympathetic coupling is strengthened in conditions of blood gas challenges (hypoxia and hypercapnia) as a result of the synchronized activation of brainstem respiratory and sympathetic neurons, culminating with the emergence of entrained cardiovascular and respiratory reflex responses. Studies have proposed that the ventrolateral region of the medulla oblongata is a major site of synaptic interaction between respiratory and sympathetic neurons. However, other brainstem regions also play a relevant role in the patterning of respiratory and sympathetic motor outputs. Recent findings suggest that the neurons of the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS), in the dorsal medulla, are essential for the processing and coordination of respiratory and sympathetic responses to hypoxia. The NTS is the first synaptic station of the cardiorespiratory afferent inputs, including peripheral chemoreceptors, baroreceptors and pulmonary stretch receptors. The synaptic profile of the NTS neurons receiving the excitatory drive from afferent inputs is complex and involves distinct neurotransmitters, including glutamate, ATP and acetylcholine. In the present review we discuss the role of the NTS circuitry in coordinating sympathetic and respiratory reflex responses. We also analyze the neuroplasticity of NTS neurons and their contribution for the development of cardiorespiratory dysfunctions, as observed in neurogenic hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea and metabolic disorders.
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- Daniel B Zoccal
- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of Araraquara, São Paulo State University (UNESP) Araraquara, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of Araraquara, São Paulo State University (UNESP) Araraquara, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of Araraquara, São Paulo State University (UNESP) Araraquara, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of Araraquara, São Paulo State University (UNESP) Araraquara, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of Araraquara, São Paulo State University (UNESP) Araraquara, Brazil
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Pliquett RU, Benkhoff S, Jung O, Brandes RP. Sympathoactivation and rho-kinase-dependent baroreflex function in experimental renovascular hypertension with reduced kidney mass. BMC PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 14:4. [PMID: 24946879 PMCID: PMC4074138 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6793-14-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2014] [Accepted: 06/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system is frequent in subjects with cardiovascular disease. The contribution of different forms of renovascular hypertension and the mechanisms contributing to autonomic dysfunction in hypertension are incompletely understood. Here, murine models of renovascular hypertension with preserved (2-kidneys-1 clip, 2K1C) and reduced (1-kidney-1 clip, 1K1C) kidney mass were studied with regard to autonomic nervous system regulation (sympathetic tone: power-spectral analysis of systolic blood pressure; parasympathetic tone: power-spectral analysis of heart rate) and baroreflex sensitivity of heart rate by spontaneous, concomitant changes of systolic blood pressure and pulse interval. Involvement of the renin-angiotensin system and the rho-kinase pathway were determined by application of inhibitors. RESULTS C57BL6N mice (6 to 11) with reduced kidney mass (1K1C) or with preserved kidney mass (2K1C) developed a similar degree of hypertension. In comparison to control mice, both models presented with a significantly increased sympathetic tone and lower baroreflex sensitivity of heart rate. However, only 2K1C animals had a lower parasympathetic tone, whereas urinary norepinephrine excretion was reduced in the 1K1C model. Rho kinase inhibition given to a subset of 1K1C and 2K1C animals improved baroreflex sensitivity of heart rate selectively in the 1K1C model. Rho kinase inhibition had no additional effects on autonomic nervous system in either model of renovascular hypertension and did not change the blood pressure. Blockade of AT1 receptors (in 2K1C animals) normalized the sympathetic tone, decreased resting heart rate, improved baroreflex sensitivity of heart rate and parasympathetic tone. CONCLUSIONS Regardless of residual renal mass, blood pressure and sympathetic tone are increased, whereas baroreflex sensitivity is depressed in murine models of renovascular hypertension. Reduced norepinephrine excretion and/or degradation might contribute to sympathoactivation in renovascular hypertension with reduced renal mass (1K1C). Overall, the study helps to direct research to optimize medical therapy of hypertension.
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- Rainer U Pliquett
- Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Vascular Research Centre, Fachbereich Medizin, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Main), Germany.
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Xing DT, May CN, Booth LC, Ramchandra R. Tonic arterial chemoreceptor activity contributes to cardiac sympathetic activation in mild ovine heart failure. Exp Physiol 2014; 99:1031-41. [PMID: 24928955 DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2014.079491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Heart failure (HF) is associated with a large increase in cardiac sympathetic nerve activity (CSNA), which has detrimental effects on the heart and promotes arrhythmias and sudden death. There is increasing evidence that arterial chemoreceptor activation plays an important role in stimulating renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) and muscle sympathetic nerve activity in HF. Given that sympathetic nerve activity to individual organs is differentially controlled, we investigated whether tonic arterial chemoreceptor activation contributes to the increased CSNA in HF. We recorded CSNA and RSNA in conscious normal sheep and in sheep with mild HF induced by rapid ventricular pacing (ejection fraction <40%). Tonic arterial chemoreceptor function was evaluated by supplementing room air with 100% intranasal oxygen (2-3 l min(-1)) for 20 min, thereby deactivating chemoreceptors. The effects of hyperoxia on resting levels and baroreflex control of heart rate, CSNA and RSNA were determined. In HF, chemoreceptor deactivation induced by hyperoxia significantly reduced CSNA [90 ± 2 versus 75 ± 5 bursts (100 heart beats)(-1), P < 0.05, n = 10; room air versus hyperoxia] and heart rate (96 ± 4 versus 85 ± 4 beats min(-1), P < 0.001, n = 12). There was no change in RSNA burst incidence [93 ± 4 versus 92 ± 4 bursts (100 heart beats)(-1), n = 7], although due to the bradycardia the RSNA burst frequency was decreased (90 ± 8 versus 77 ± 7 bursts min(-1), P < 0.001). In normal sheep, chemoreceptor deactivation reduced heart rate without a significant effect on CSNA or RSNA. In summary, deactivation of peripheral chemoreceptors during HF reduced the elevated levels of CSNA, indicating that tonic arterial chemoreceptor activation plays a critical role in stimulating the elevated CSNA in HF.
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- Daniel T Xing
- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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Moraes DJA, Machado BH, Paton JFR. Specific Respiratory Neuron Types Have Increased Excitability That Drive Presympathetic Neurones in Neurogenic Hypertension. Hypertension 2014; 63:1309-18. [DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.113.02283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Davi J. A. Moraes
- From the School of Physiology and Pharmacology, Bristol Heart Institute, Medical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, England (D.J.A.M., J.F.R.P.); and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 14049–900, SP, Brazil (D.J.A.M., B.H.M.)
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- From the School of Physiology and Pharmacology, Bristol Heart Institute, Medical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, England (D.J.A.M., J.F.R.P.); and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 14049–900, SP, Brazil (D.J.A.M., B.H.M.)
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- From the School of Physiology and Pharmacology, Bristol Heart Institute, Medical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, England (D.J.A.M., J.F.R.P.); and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 14049–900, SP, Brazil (D.J.A.M., B.H.M.)
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Deactivation of carotid body chemoreceptors by hyperoxia decreases blood pressure in hypertensive patients. Hypertens Res 2014; 37:858-62. [PMID: 24804611 DOI: 10.1038/hr.2014.91] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2013] [Revised: 03/08/2014] [Accepted: 03/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Previous studies have shown that hyperoxia-induced deactivation of carotid body chemoreceptors reduces sympathetic activity in hypertensive patients but it does not affect blood pressure. The maintenance of blood pressure can be explained by the direct, vasoconstrictive effect of hyperoxia, which offsets diminished sympathetic activity. This study compares the effect of acute hyperoxia on hemodynamic parameters between hypertensive and normotensive subjects. Twelve males with hypertension (age 39.4±2.4 years; body mass index 27.4±1.1 kg m(-2)) and 11 normotensive males (age 39.9±2.7 years; body mass index 25.4±0.7 kg m(-2)) received, via non-rebreathing mask ventilation, ambient air, followed by 100% oxygen for 20 min. The stroke volume, heart rate, cardiac output, blood pressure, total peripheral resistance, respiratory rate, baroreceptor control of heart rate and oxygen saturation were recorded continuously. Several 30 s periods were analyzed before, during and after inducing hyperoxia. At baseline, the hypertensive subject's blood pressure was higher and their baroreflex control of heart rate was lower when compared with the normotensive control group. After the first 30 s of hyperoxia, systolic, diastolic and mean blood pressures, as well as the total peripheral resistance, decreased significantly in hypertensives but not in normotensives. After 20 min of 100% oxygen ventilation, systolic and mean blood pressures and total peripheral resistance was increased in hypertensive patients, and the cardiac output and stroke volume had decreased in both groups. The results of this study confirm that deactivation of carotid body chemoreceptors can acutely decrease blood pressure in humans.
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Nobrega ACL, O'Leary D, Silva BM, Marongiu E, Piepoli MF, Crisafulli A. Neural regulation of cardiovascular response to exercise: role of central command and peripheral afferents. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2014; 2014:478965. [PMID: 24818143 PMCID: PMC4000959 DOI: 10.1155/2014/478965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2013] [Accepted: 02/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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During dynamic exercise, mechanisms controlling the cardiovascular apparatus operate to provide adequate oxygen to fulfill metabolic demand of exercising muscles and to guarantee metabolic end-products washout. Moreover, arterial blood pressure is regulated to maintain adequate perfusion of the vital organs without excessive pressure variations. The autonomic nervous system adjustments are characterized by a parasympathetic withdrawal and a sympathetic activation. In this review, we briefly summarize neural reflexes operating during dynamic exercise. The main focus of the present review will be on the central command, the arterial baroreflex and chemoreflex, and the exercise pressure reflex. The regulation and integration of these reflexes operating during dynamic exercise and their possible role in the pathophysiology of some cardiovascular diseases are also discussed.
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- Antonio C. L. Nobrega
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, RJ, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Section of Exercise Physiology, Department of Physiology, Federal University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Sports Physiology laboratory Lab., Department of Medical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Italy
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- Heart Failure Unit, Cardiac Department, Guglielmo da Saliceto Polichirurgico Hospital, Piacenza, Italy
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- Sports Physiology laboratory Lab., Department of Medical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Italy
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Abboud F, Kumar R. Obstructive sleep apnea and insight into mechanisms of sympathetic overactivity. J Clin Invest 2014; 124:1454-7. [PMID: 24691480 DOI: 10.1172/jci70420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Nearly two decades ago, we evaluated ten patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We determined that alarming nocturnal oscillations in arterial pressure and sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) were caused by regulatory coupling and neural interactions among SNA, apnea, and ventilation. Patients with OSA exhibited high levels of SNA when awake, during normal ventilation, and during normoxia, which contributed to hypertension and organ damage. Additionally, we achieved a beneficial and potentially lifesaving reduction in SNA through the application of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), which remains a primary therapeutic approach for patients with OSA. With these results in hindsight, we herein discuss three concepts with functional and therapeutic relevance to the integrative neurobiology of autonomic cardiovascular control and to the mechanisms involved in excessive sympathoexcitation in OSA.
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Schultz HD, Marcus NJ, Del Rio R. Role of the carotid body in the pathophysiology of heart failure. Curr Hypertens Rep 2014; 15:356-62. [PMID: 23824499 DOI: 10.1007/s11906-013-0368-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Important recent advances implicate a role of the carotid body (CB) chemoreflex in sympathetic and breathing dysregulation in several cardio-respiratory diseases, drawing renewed interest in its potential implications for clinical treatment. Evidence from both chronic heart failure (CHF) patients and animal models indicates that the CB chemoreflex is enhanced in CHF, and contributes to the tonic elevation in sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) and periodic breathing associated with the disease. Although this maladaptive change likely derives from altered function at all levels of the reflex arc, a change in afferent function of the CB is likely to be a main driving force. This review will focus on recent advances in our understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms that alter CB function in CHF and their potential translational impact on treatment of chronic heart failure (CHF).
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- Harold D Schultz
- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5850, USA.
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In this review we focus on the role of orexin in cardio-respiratory functions and its potential link to hypertension. (1) Orexin, cardiovascular function, and hypertension. In normal rats, central administration of orexin can induce significant increases in arterial blood pressure (ABP) and sympathetic nerve activity (SNA), which can be blocked by orexin receptor antagonists. In spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs), antagonizing orexin receptors can significantly lower blood pressure under anesthetized or conscious conditions. (2) Orexin, respiratory function, and central chemoreception. The prepro-orexin knockout mouse has a significantly attenuated ventilatory CO2 chemoreflex, and in normal rats, central application of orexin stimulates breathing while blocking orexin receptors decreases the ventilatory CO2 chemoreflex. Interestingly, SHRs have a significantly increased ventilatory CO2 chemoreflex relative to normotensive WKY rats and blocking both orexin receptors can normalize this exaggerated response. (3) Orexin, central chemoreception, and hypertension. SHRs have higher ABP and SNA along with an enhanced ventilatory CO2 chemoreflex. Treating SHRs by blocking both orexin receptors with oral administration of an antagonist, almorexant (Almxt), can normalize the CO2 chemoreflex and significantly lower ABP and SNA. We interpret these results to suggest that the orexin system participates in the pathogenesis and maintenance of high blood pressure in SHRs, and the central chemoreflex may be a causal link to the increased SNA and ABP in SHRs. Modulation of the orexin system could be a potential target in treating some forms of hypertension.
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- Aihua Li
- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Lebanon, NH, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Lebanon, NH, USA
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Li A, Nattie E. Orexin, cardio-respiratory function, and hypertension. Front Neurosci 2014; 8:22. [PMID: 24574958 PMCID: PMC3921571 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2013] [Accepted: 01/25/2014] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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In this review we focus on the role of orexin in cardio-respiratory functions and its potential link to hypertension. (1) Orexin, cardiovascular function, and hypertension. In normal rats, central administration of orexin can induce significant increases in arterial blood pressure (ABP) and sympathetic nerve activity (SNA), which can be blocked by orexin receptor antagonists. In spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs), antagonizing orexin receptors can significantly lower blood pressure under anesthetized or conscious conditions. (2) Orexin, respiratory function, and central chemoreception. The prepro-orexin knockout mouse has a significantly attenuated ventilatory CO2 chemoreflex, and in normal rats, central application of orexin stimulates breathing while blocking orexin receptors decreases the ventilatory CO2 chemoreflex. Interestingly, SHRs have a significantly increased ventilatory CO2 chemoreflex relative to normotensive WKY rats and blocking both orexin receptors can normalize this exaggerated response. (3) Orexin, central chemoreception, and hypertension. SHRs have higher ABP and SNA along with an enhanced ventilatory CO2 chemoreflex. Treating SHRs by blocking both orexin receptors with oral administration of an antagonist, almorexant (Almxt), can normalize the CO2 chemoreflex and significantly lower ABP and SNA. We interpret these results to suggest that the orexin system participates in the pathogenesis and maintenance of high blood pressure in SHRs, and the central chemoreflex may be a causal link to the increased SNA and ABP in SHRs. Modulation of the orexin system could be a potential target in treating some forms of hypertension.
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- Aihua Li
- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Lebanon, NH, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Lebanon, NH, USA
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Angheben JMM, Schoorlemmer GHM, Rossi MV, Silva TA, Cravo SL. Cardiovascular responses induced by obstructive apnea are enhanced in hypertensive rats due to enhanced chemoreceptor responsivity. PLoS One 2014; 9:e86868. [PMID: 24466272 PMCID: PMC3900660 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2013] [Accepted: 12/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), like patients with sleep apnea, have hypertension, increased sympathetic activity, and increased chemoreceptor drive. We investigated the role of carotid chemoreceptors in cardiovascular responses induced by obstructive apnea in awake SHR. A tracheal balloon and vascular cannulas were implanted, and a week later, apneas of 15 s each were induced. The effects of apnea were more pronounced in SHR than in control rats (Wistar Kyoto; WKY). Blood pressure increased by 57±3 mmHg during apnea in SHR and by 28±3 mmHg in WKY (p<0.05, n = 14/13). The respiratory effort increased by 53±6 mmHg in SHR and by 34±5 mmHg in WKY. The heart rate fell by 209±19 bpm in SHR and by 155±16 bpm in WKY. The carotid chemoreceptors were then inactivated by the ligation of the carotid body artery, and apneas were induced two days later. The inactivation of chemoreceptors reduced the responses to apnea and abolished the difference between SHR and controls. The apnea-induced hypertension was 11±4 mmHg in SHR and 8±4 mmHg in WKY. The respiratory effort was 15±2 mmHg in SHR and 15±2 mmHg in WKY. The heart rate fell 63±18 bpm in SHR and 52±14 bpm in WKY. Similarly, when the chemoreceptors were unloaded by the administration of 100% oxygen, the responses to apnea were reduced. In conclusion, arterial chemoreceptors contribute to the responses induced by apnea in both strains, but they are more important in SHR and account for the exaggerated responses of this strain to apnea.
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- Juliana M M Angheben
- Department of Physiology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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