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Bishop M, Weinhold M, Turk AZ, Adeck A, SheikhBahaei S. An open-source tool for automated analysis of breathing behaviors in common marmosets and rodents. eLife 2022; 11:e71647. [PMID: 35049499 PMCID: PMC8856653 DOI: 10.7554/elife.71647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The respiratory system maintains homeostatic levels of oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) in the body through rapid and efficient regulation of breathing frequency and depth (tidal volume). The commonly used methods of analyzing breathing data in behaving experimental animals are usually subjective, laborious, and time-consuming. To overcome these hurdles, we optimized an analysis toolkit for the unsupervised study of respiratory activities in animal subjects. Using this tool, we analyzed breathing behaviors of the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), a New World non-human primate model. Using whole-body plethysmography in room air as well as acute hypoxic (10% O2) and hypercapnic (6% CO2) conditions, we describe breathing behaviors in awake, freely behaving marmosets. Our data indicate that marmosets' exposure to acute hypoxia decreased metabolic rate and increased sigh rate. However, the hypoxic condition did not augment ventilation. Hypercapnia, on the other hand, increased both the frequency and depth (i.e., tidal volume) of breathing.
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- Mitchell Bishop
- Neuron-Glia Signaling and Circuits Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, United States
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- Neuron-Glia Signaling and Circuits Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, United States
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- Neuron-Glia Signaling and Circuits Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, United States
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- Neuron-Glia Signaling and Circuits Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, United States
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- Neuron-Glia Signaling and Circuits Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, United States
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de Sousa Abreu RP, Bondarenko E, Feldman JL. Phase- and state-dependent modulation of breathing pattern by preBötzinger complex somatostatin expressing neurons. J Physiol 2022; 600:143-165. [PMID: 34783033 PMCID: PMC9261878 DOI: 10.1113/jp282002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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As neuronal subtypes are increasingly categorized, delineating their functional role is paramount. The preBötzinger complex (preBötC) subpopulation expressing the neuropeptide somatostatin (SST) is classified as mostly excitatory, inspiratory-modulated and not rhythmogenic. We further characterized their phenotypic identity: 87% were glutamatergic and the balance were glycinergic and/or GABAergic. We then used optogenetics to investigate their modulatory role in both anaesthetized and freely moving mice. In anaesthetized mice, short photostimulation (100 ms) of preBötC SST+ neurons modulated breathing-related variables in a combinatory phase- and state-dependent manner; changes in inspiratory duration, inspiratory peak amplitude (Amp), and phase were different at higher (≥2.5 Hz) vs. lower (<2.5 Hz) breathing frequency (f). Moreover, we observed a biphasic effect of photostimulation during expiration that is probabilistic, that is photostimulation given at the same phase in consecutive cycles can evoke opposite responses (lengthening vs. shortening of the phase). These unexpected probabilistic state- and phase-dependent responses to photostimulation exposed properties of the preBötC that were not predicted and cannot be readily accounted for in current models of preBötC pattern generation. In freely moving mice, prolonged photostimulation decreased f in normoxia, hypoxia or hypercapnia, and increased Amp and produced a phase advance, which was similar to the results in anaesthetized mice when f ≥ 2.5 Hz. We conclude that preBötC SST+ neurons are a key mediator of the extraordinary and essential lability of breathing pattern. KEY POINTS: PreBötzinger complex (preBötC) SST+ neurons, which modulate respiratory pattern but are not rhythmogenic, were transfected with channelrhodopsin to investigate phase- and state-dependent modulation of breathing pattern in anaesthetized and freely behaving mice in normoxia, hypoxia and hypercapnia. In anaesthetized mice, photostimulation during inspiration increased inspiratory duration and amplitude regardless of baseline f, yet the effects were more robust at higher f. In anaesthetized mice with low f (<2.5 Hz), photostimulation during expiration evoked either phase advance or phase delay, whereas in anaesthetized mice with high f (≥2.5 Hz) and in freely behaving mice in normoxia, hypoxia or hypercapnia, photostimulation always evoked phase advance. Phase- and state-dependency is a function of overall breathing network excitability. The f-dependent probabilistic modulation of breathing pattern by preBötC SST+ neurons was unexpected, requiring reconsideration of current models of preBötC function, which neither predict nor can readily account for such responses.
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Kouakam C, Stephan-Blanchard E, Léké A, Kongolo G, Haraux E, Delanaud S, Telliez F, Chardon K. The hypoxic test in preterm neonates reinvestigated. Pediatr Pulmonol 2018; 53:483-491. [PMID: 29136344 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.23907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/17/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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AIM We currently lack a suitable gold-standard method for implementation on modern equipment to assess peripheral chemoreceptor sensitivity. The aim of the present study was to develop an accurate and reproducible method for assessing peripheral chemoreceptors sensitivity in sleeping preterm neonates. METHODS A poïkilocapnic hypoxic test was performed twice during rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep) and non-rapid eye movement sleep (nonREM sleep). The infant breathed hypoxic gas (15% O2 ) for 60 s. The ventilatory response to hypoxia was assessed by comparing minute ventilation during the control period (21% O2 ) with successive 4-cycles sequences during hypoxia. We detected the first statistically significant increase in minute ventilation and recorded the corresponding response time. RESULTS During normoxia, minute ventilation was higher during REM sleep than in nonREM sleep (428.1 mL · min-1 · kg-1 [307.7-633.6]; 388.8 mL · min-1 · kg-1 [264.7-608.0], respectively; P = 0.001). After hypoxia, minute ventilation increased in both REM and nonREM sleep. The response was significantly higher in REM than in nonREM (25.3% [10.8-80.0] and 16.8% [7.5-33.2], respectively; P = 0.005). The intraclass correlation coefficients for all respiratory parameters were above 0.90. CONCLUSION We have developed a highly reliable method for assessing peripheral chemoreceptors sensitivity at the response time to hypoxia. In the future, researchers could use this method to assess the involvement of peripheral chemoreceptors in infants who experience chronic hypoxia (e.g. in bronchopulmonary dysplasia and recurrent apnea).
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- Christelle Kouakam
- PériTox-INERIS laboratory UMR_I 01, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, France
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- PériTox-INERIS laboratory UMR_I 01, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, France.,Department of Neonatal Medicine, University Hospital, Amiens, France
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- Department of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital, Amiens, France
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- PériTox-INERIS laboratory UMR_I 01, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, France.,Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital, Amiens, France
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- PériTox-INERIS laboratory UMR_I 01, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, France
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- PériTox-INERIS laboratory UMR_I 01, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, France
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- PériTox-INERIS laboratory UMR_I 01, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, France
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Ali K, Rosser T, Bhat R, Wolff K, Hannam S, Rafferty GF, Greenough A. Antenatal smoking and substance-misuse, infant and newborn response to hypoxia. Pediatr Pulmonol 2017; 52:650-655. [PMID: 27723956 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.23620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2016] [Revised: 09/22/2016] [Accepted: 09/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To determine at the peak age for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) the ventilatory response to hypoxia of infants whose mothers substance misused in pregnancy (SM infants), or smoked during pregnancy (S mothers) and controls whose mothers neither substance misused or smoked. In addition, we compared the ventilatory response to hypoxia during the neonatal period and peak age of SIDS. WORKING HYPOTHESIS Infants of S or SM mothers compared to control infants would have a poorer ventilatory response to hypoxia at the peak age of SIDS. STUDY DESIGN Prospective, observational study. PATIENT-SUBJECT SELECTION Twelve S; 12 SM and 11 control infants were assessed at 6-12 weeks of age and in the neonatal period. METHODOLOGY Changes in minute volume, oxygen saturation, heart rate, and end tidal carbon dioxide levels on switching from breathing room air to 15% oxygen were assessed. Maternal and infant urine samples were tested for cotinine, cannabinoids, opiates, amphetamines, methadone, cocaine, and benzodiazepines. RESULTS The S and SM infants had a greater decline in minute volume (P = 0.037, P = 0.016, respectively) and oxygen saturation (P = 0.031) compared to controls. In all groups, the magnitude of decline in minute volume in response to hypoxia was higher in the neonatal period compared to at 6-12 weeks (P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS Both maternal substance misuse and smoking were associated with an impaired response to a hypoxic challenge at the peak age for SIDS. The hypoxic ventilatory decline was more marked in the neonatal period compared to the peak age for SIDS indicating a maturational effect. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2017;52:650-655. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Kamal Ali
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Addiction Sciences Unit, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.,Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.,National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre based at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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Koos BJ, Rajaee A, Ibe B, Guerra C, Kruger L. Thalamic mediation of hypoxic respiratory depression in lambs. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2016; 310:R586-95. [PMID: 26818057 PMCID: PMC4867384 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00412.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2015] [Accepted: 01/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Immaturity of respiratory controllers in preterm infants dispose to recurrent apnea and oxygen deprivation. Accompanying reductions in brain oxygen tensions evoke respiratory depression, potentially exacerbating hypoxemia. Central respiratory depression during moderate hypoxia is revealed in the ventilatory decline following initial augmentation. This study determined whether the thalamic parafascicular nuclear (Pf) complex involved in adult nociception and sensorimotor regulation (Bentivoglio M, Balerecia G, Kruger L. Prog Brain Res 87: 53-80, 1991) also becomes a postnatal controller of hypoxic ventilatory decline. Respiratory responses to moderate isocapnic hypoxia were studied in conscious lambs. Hypoxic ventilatory decline was compared with peak augmentation. Pf and/or adjacent thalamic structures were destroyed by the neuron-specific toxin ibotenic acid (IB). IB lesions involving the thalamic Pf abolished hypoxic ventilatory decline. Lesions of adjacent thalamic nuclei that spared Pf and control injections of vehicle failed to blunt hypoxic respiratory depression. Our findings reveal that the thalamic Pf region is a critical controller of hypoxic ventilatory depression and thus a key target for exploring molecular concomitants of forebrain pathways regulating hypoxic ventilatory depression in early development.
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- Brian J Koos
- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California;
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Pediatrics, C. W. Steers Biological Resource Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, California; and
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- C. W. Steers Biological Resource Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, California
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- Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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During the first year of life and particularly the first 6 months autonomic control of the cardio-respiratory system is still undergoing maturation and infants are at risk of cardio-respiratory instability. These instabilities are most marked during sleep, which is important as infants spend the majority of each 24 hours in sleep. Sleep state has a marked effect on the cardio-respiratory system with instabilities being more common in active sleep compared to quiet sleep. Responses to hypoxia are also immature during infancy and may make young infants more vulnerable to cardio-respiratory instability. It has been proposed that an inability to respond appropriately to a life threatening event underpins the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The major risk factors for SIDS, prone sleeping and maternal smoking, both impair cardio-respiratory control in normal healthy term infants.
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- Rosemary S C Horne
- The Ritchie Centre, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, Level 5, Monash Medical Centre, 246 Clayton Rd, Clayton, Victoria, Australia 3168.
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Stéphan-Blanchard E, Bach V, Telliez F, Chardon K. Perinatal nicotine/smoking exposure and carotid chemoreceptors during development. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2012; 185:110-9. [PMID: 22743051 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2012.06.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2012] [Revised: 06/19/2012] [Accepted: 06/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Tobacco smoking is still a common habit during pregnancy and is the most important preventable cause of many adverse perinatal outcomes. Prenatal smoking exposure can produce direct actions of nicotine in the fetus with the disruption of body and brain development, and actions on the maternal-fetal unit by causing repeated episodes of hypoxia and exposure to many toxic smoke products (such as carbon monoxide). Specifically, nicotine through binding to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors have ubiquitous effects and can affect carotid chemoreception development through structural, functional and neuroregulatory alterations of the neural circuits involved in the chemoafferent pathway, as well as by interfering with the postnatal resetting of the carotid bodies. Reduced carotid body chemosensitivity and tonic activity have thus been reported by the majority of the human and animal studies. This review focuses on the effects of perinatal exposure to tobacco smoke and nicotine on carotid chemoreceptor function during the developmental period. A description of the effects of smoking and nicotine on the control of breathing related to carotid body activity, and of the possible physiopathological mechanisms at the origin of these disturbances is presented.
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- E Stéphan-Blanchard
- PériTox-INERIS Laboratory, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, France.
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Teppema LJ, Dahan A. The Ventilatory Response to Hypoxia in Mammals: Mechanisms, Measurement, and Analysis. Physiol Rev 2010; 90:675-754. [DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00012.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 257] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The respiratory response to hypoxia in mammals develops from an inhibition of breathing movements in utero into a sustained increase in ventilation in the adult. This ventilatory response to hypoxia (HVR) in mammals is the subject of this review. The period immediately after birth contains a critical time window in which environmental factors can cause long-term changes in the structural and functional properties of the respiratory system, resulting in an altered HVR phenotype. Both neonatal chronic and chronic intermittent hypoxia, but also chronic hyperoxia, can induce such plastic changes, the nature of which depends on the time pattern and duration of the exposure (acute or chronic, episodic or not, etc.). At adult age, exposure to chronic hypoxic paradigms induces adjustments in the HVR that seem reversible when the respiratory system is fully matured. These changes are orchestrated by transcription factors of which hypoxia-inducible factor 1 has been identified as the master regulator. We discuss the mechanisms underlying the HVR and its adaptations to chronic changes in ambient oxygen concentration, with emphasis on the carotid bodies that contain oxygen sensors and initiate the response, and on the contribution of central neurotransmitters and brain stem regions. We also briefly summarize the techniques used in small animals and in humans to measure the HVR and discuss the specific difficulties encountered in its measurement and analysis.
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- Luc J. Teppema
- Department of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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VERBEEK MARJANMA, RICHARDSON HEIDIL, PARSLOW PETERM, WALKER ADRIANM, HARDING RICHARD, HORNE ROSEMARYSC. Arousal and ventilatory responses to mild hypoxia in sleeping preterm infants. J Sleep Res 2008; 17:344-53. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2008.00653.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hofstetter AO, Legnevall L, Herlenius E, Katz-Salamon M. Cardiorespiratory development in extremely preterm infants: vulnerability to infection and persistence of events beyond term-equivalent age. Acta Paediatr 2008; 97:285-92. [PMID: 18298775 DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2007.00618.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Apnoea, bradycardia and hypoxemia occur frequently in extremely preterm infants, yet there is little longitudinal data describing cardiorespiratory development in these infants. This prospective study characterized early age-dependent changes in cardiorespiratory function and determined how activity is affected by factors such as underlying disease, postnatal insults and therapeutic interventions. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty-three infants born between 23 and 28 weeks gestational age (GA) were monitored weekly from birth to beyond term-equivalent age (i.e. 25-45 weeks postconceptional age, PCA). Baseline cardiorespiratory activity as well as apnoea/hypopnoea, bradycardia and hypoxemia events were examined using impedance pneumography, electrocardiography (ECG) and pulse oximetry, respectively. RESULTS Three hundred thirty-eight cardiorespiratory recordings lasting 3236 h were analysed. While the respiratory rate (RR) did not change during the early postnatal period, heart rate (HR) decreased and O2 saturation improved. There were 5973 total cardiorespiratory events, and their incidence decreased with advancing age. However, they still occurred frequently at term-equivalent age and after hospital discharge (mean PCA at discharge=38.3+/-0.5 weeks). Moreover, infection significantly increased apnoea/hypopnoea and hypoxemia incidence. CONCLUSION The persistence of cardiorespiratory events beyond term-equivalent age as well as the marked impact of infection on cardiorespiratory function indicate that close surveillance after hospitalization is of crucial importance in extremely preterm infants.
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- A O Hofstetter
- Department of Woman and Child Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Richardson HL, Parslow PM, Walker AM, Harding R, Horne RSC. Maturation of the initial ventilatory response to hypoxia in sleeping infants. J Sleep Res 2007; 16:117-27. [PMID: 17309771 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2007.00575.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In infants most previous studies of the hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) have been conducted only during quiet sleep (QS) and arousal responses have not been considered. Our aim was to quantify the maturation of the HVR in term infants during both active sleep (AS) and QS over the first 6 months of life. Daytime polysomnography was performed on 15 healthy term infants at 2-5 weeks, 2-3 and 5-6 months after birth and infants were challenged with hypoxia (15% O2, balance N2). Tests in AS always resulted in arousal; in QS tests infants either aroused or did not arouse. A biphasic HVR was observed in non arousing tests at all three ages studied. The fall in SpO2 was more rapid in arousal tests at all three ages. At 2-5 weeks, in non-arousing QS tests, there was a greater fall in respiratory frequency (f) despite a smaller fall in SpO2 compared with 2-3 and 5-6 months. When infants aroused there was no difference in the HVR between sleep states or with postnatal age. However, when infants failed to arouse from QS, arterial desaturation was less in the younger infants despite a poorer HVR. We suggest that arousal in response to hypoxia, particularly in AS, is a vital survival mechanism throughout the first 6 months of life.
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- Heidi L Richardson
- Ritchie Centre for Baby Health Research, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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Baldwin DN, Pillow JJ, Stocks J, Frey U. Lung-function tests in neonates and infants with chronic lung disease: tidal breathing and respiratory control. Pediatr Pulmonol 2006; 41:391-419. [PMID: 16555264 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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This paper is the fourth in a series of reviews that will summarize available data and critically discuss the potential role of lung-function testing in infants with acute neonatal respiratory disorders and chronic lung disease of infancy. The current paper addresses information derived from tidal breathing measurements within the framework outlined in the introductory paper of this series, with particular reference to how these measurements inform on control of breathing. Infants with acute and chronic respiratory illness demonstrate differences in tidal breathing and its control that are of clinical consequence and can be measured objectively. The increased incidence of significant apnea in preterm infants and infants with chronic lung disease, together with the reportedly increased risk of sudden unexplained death within the latter group, suggests that control of breathing is affected by both maturation and disease. Clinical observations are supported by formal comparison of tidal breathing parameters and control of breathing indices in the research setting.
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- David N Baldwin
- Centre for Child Health Research and Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
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Horne RSC, Parslow PM, Harding R. Postnatal development of ventilatory and arousal responses to hypoxia in human infants. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2005; 149:257-71. [PMID: 15876558 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2005.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2004] [Revised: 02/15/2005] [Accepted: 03/14/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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During the first year of life there is significant maturation of the hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) in human infants. Compared with adults, healthy term infants have an immature HVR until at least 6 months of age. There are few studies in infants on the effects of sleep state on the HVR but these suggest that at early postnatal ages there is initially no sleep-state related difference; this is followed by a developmental trend towards the adult situation in which the response is depressed in REM sleep compared with NREM. Maternal cigarette smoking is a major risk factor for SIDS and the mechanism for this may involve a depressed HVR in the exposed infant; however studies are limited and the wide variation in cigarette consumption makes interpretation of results difficult. Arousal responses to hypoxia are of vital importance and a failure to arouse has been implicated in SIDS. Sleeping infants frequently fail to arouse in response to hypoxia in QS, whereas in AS they invariably arouse; furthermore arousal latency is longer in QS compared with AS. The oxygen saturation at which infants arouse is not different between sleep states, suggesting that desaturation is more rapid in AS. In QS younger infants arouse more readily than at older ages and arousal is depressed by maternal smoking. These findings suggest that depression of the arousal response to hypoxia in AS may have life-threatening consequences. Infants at increased risk for SIDS have been shown to have both depressed ventilatory and arousal responses to hypoxia, thus they may be at even greater risk.
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- Rosemary S C Horne
- Ritchie Centre for Baby Health Research, Monash University, Level 5, Monash Medical Centre, 246 Clayton Road, Clayton, Vic. 3168, Australia.
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Kinkead R, Genest SE, Gulemetova R, Lajeunesse Y, Laforest S, Drolet G, Bairam A. Neonatal maternal separation and early life programming of the hypoxic ventilatory response in rats. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2005; 149:313-24. [PMID: 15894516 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2005.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2004] [Revised: 04/14/2005] [Accepted: 04/14/2005] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The neonatal period is critical for central nervous system (CNS) development. Recent studies have shown that this basic neurobiological principle also applies to the neural circuits regulating respiratory activity as exposure to excessive or insufficient chemosensory stimuli during early life can have long-lasting consequences on the performance of this vital system. Although the tactile, olfactory, and auditory stimuli that the mother provides to her offspring during the neonatal period are not directly relevant to respiratory homeostasis, they likely contribute to respiratory control development. This review outlines the rationale for the link between maternal stimuli and programming of the hypoxic ventilatory response during early life, and presents recent results obtained in rats indicating that experimental disruption of mother-pup interaction during this critical period elicits significant phenotypic plasticity of the hypoxic ventilatory response.
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- Richard Kinkead
- Pediatrics, Centre de Recherche Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Université Laval, Québec, Qué., Canada.
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Khan A, Qurashi M, Kwiatkowski K, Cates D, Rigatto H. Measurement of the CO2 apneic threshold in newborn infants: possible relevance for periodic breathing and apnea. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2005; 98:1171-6. [PMID: 15772056 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00574.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We measured the Pco2 apneic threshold in preterm and term infants. We hypothesized that, compared with adult subjects, the Pco2 apneic threshold in neonates is very close to the eupneic Pco2, likely facilitating the appearance of periodic breathing and apnea. In contrast with adults, who need to be artificially hyperventilated to switch from regular to periodic breathing, neonates do this spontaneously. We therefore measured the apneic threshold as the average alveolar Pco2 (PaCO2) of the last three breaths of regular breathing preceding the first apnea of an epoch of periodic breathing. We also measured the PaCO2 of the first three breaths of regular breathing after the last apnea of the same periodic breathing epoch. In preterm infants, eupneic PaCO2 was 38.6 ± 1.4 Torr, the preperiodic PaCO2 apneic threshold was 37.3 ± 1.4 Torr, and the postperiodic PaCO2 was 37.2 ± 1.4 Torr. In term infants, the eupneic PaCO2 was 39.7 ± 1.1 Torr, the preperiodic PaCO2 apneic threshold was 38.7 ± 1.0 Torr, and the postperiodic value was 37.9 ± 1.2 Torr. This means that the PaCO2 apneic thresholds were 1.3 ± 0.1 and 1.0 ± 0.2 Torr below eupneic PaCO2 in preterm and term infants, respectively. The transition from eupneic PaCO2 to PaCO2 apneic threshold preceding periodic breathing was accompanied by a minor and nonsignificant increase in ventilation, primarily related to a slight increase in frequency. The findings suggest that neonates breathe very close to their Pco2 apneic threshold, the overall average eupneic Pco2 being only 1.15 ± 0.2 Torr (0.95–1.79, 95% confidence interval) above the apneic threshold. This value is much lower than that reported for adult subjects (3.5 ± 0.4 Torr). We speculate that this closeness of eupneic and apneic Pco2 thresholds confers great vulnerability to the respiratory control system in neonates, because minor oscillations in breathing may bring eupneic Pco2 below threshold, causing apnea.
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- Akram Khan
- University of Manitoba, Dept. of Pediatrics, WR125 Women's Hospital, 735 Notre Dame Ave., Winnipeg, Canada MB R3E 0L8
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Control of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems undergoes rapid maturation during infancy. Sleep is at a lifetime maximum during this period and has a marked influence on cardiorespiratory function. The mechanisms leading to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) may include a failure in the neural integration of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, with a concomitant failure to arouse from sleep. Studies have shown that sleep states exert a marked influence on respiratory control and arousability. Infants are more arousable in active sleep compared with quiet sleep from both somatosensory and respiratory stimuli. Post-natal and gestational age at birth also have a marked influence on arousability. Arousability is depressed by the major risk factors for SIDS (prone sleeping, maternal smoking, prematurity and recent infection) and is increased by factors that decrease the risk for SIDS (e.g. use of dummies, breastfeeding).
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Al-Matary A, Kutbi I, Qurashi M, Khalil M, Alvaro R, Kwiatkowski K, Cates D, Rigatto H. Increased peripheral chemoreceptor activity may be critical in destabilizing breathing in neonates. Semin Perinatol 2004; 28:264-72. [PMID: 15565786 DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2004.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Periodic breathing and apnea are common in neonates, yet the physiological mechanisms involved are not clear. A low arterial PO2 might magnify peripheral chemoreceptor contribution to breathing, with its baseline variability inducing major changes in ventilation, leading to instability of the respiratory control system. We hypothesized that neonates: (1) would depend much more on the peripheral chemoreceptor contribution to breathing than adult subjects and (2) their baseline arterial PO2 would sit on the steep portion of the ventilation/arterial PO2 relationship on the adult nomogram, making breathing prone to oscillate. We analyzed data from previous polygraphic recordings in four groups of subjects: small preterm infants [SPI; postconceptional age (PCA) 33+/-2 weeks; n = 40], large preterm infants (LPI; PCA 36+/-2 weeks; n = 34), term infants (TI; PCA 42+/-1 week; n = 24), and adult subjects (AS; weight 63+/-2 kg; age 29+/-3 years, n = 16). Peripheral chemoreceptor activity was measured by: (1) the immediate decrease in ventilation and (2) apnea time during brief inhalation of 100% O2 (about 1 minute). We found that: (1) the immediate decrease in ventilation with 100% O2 was more pronounced in infants than in adult subjects (38+/-2 versus 6+/-5%), and in infants breathing periodically versus those breathing continuously; (2) the apnea time during 100% O2 was also significantly longer in periodic breathing infants; and (3) the TcPO2 was much lower in infants than in adult subjects (65+/-1 versus 93+/-1 Torr), and also lower in periodic versus continuously breathing infants. It was located significantly to the left of values for the adult subject, on the ventilation/arterial PO2 diagram. The data suggest that: (1) a substantial portion of baseline breathing activity early in life is maintained by increased peripheral chemoreceptor activity; and (2) neonates breathe irregularly with apneas due to the position of their arterial PO2 values on the ventilation/arterial PO2 diagram, in which a change in PO2 produces a more significant change in ventilation than that observed later in life.
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- Abdulrahman Al-Matary
- Department of Pediatrics, Physiology, and Reproductive Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB Canada
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Respiratory control in the fetus and neonate is quite immature when compared to that of adults. This immaturity involves all facets of respiration including respiratory responses to hypoxia, hypercapnia, an exaggerated apnoeic response to laryngeal stimulation and immature responses to activation of pulmonary afferents. The net result of this immaturity of breathing responses is the vulnerability of neonates and especially preterm infants to apnoea and respiratory pauses. The mechanisms behind immature control of breathing are not fully understood, but seem to originate from a predominance of inhibitory input early in life on respiratory centres. The relative contribution of up-regulation of inhibitory pathways versus down-regulation of excitatory ones is not clear. Multiple neurotransmitters have been implicated in the regulation of breathing in mammals and some of them are discussed in this chapter.
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- Jalal M Abu-Shaweesh
- Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, 11000 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
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Bissonnette JM, Knopp SJ. Developmental changes in the hypoxic ventilatory response in C57BL/6 mice. RESPIRATION PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 128:179-86. [PMID: 11812382 DOI: 10.1016/s0034-5687(01)00271-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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C57BL/6 mice are the strain into which most null mutations for neurotransmitters or their receptors are backcrossed. A number of these transgenic mice have recently been shown to have an abnormal respiratory phenotype; however, the postnatal development of the ventilatory response to hypoxia has not been characterized in C57BL/6 mice. The effect of 8% oxygen for 5 min was examined in mice at five periods from P1 to P30 using a body plethysmograph. Neonatal and juvenile animals from P7 to P30 showed a biphasic pattern in hypoxia in which the increase in minute ventilation achieved in the first min declined towards baseline by the fifth minute and was decreased below baseline in the first minute of return to air breathing. In contrast P1-P3 C57BL/6 mice had a sustained increase in both respiratory frequency and tidal volume and their minute volume remained above baseline on return to air. The decline in oxygen consumption, measured in the fifth minute of hypoxia, was not different in P1-P3 mice compared to P8-P10. These results suggest that the earliest response to hypoxia of the respiratory system in this strain is not characterized by a time dependent depression as seen in older animals and in species whose motor systems are relatively more developed at birth.
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- J M Bissonnette
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Research Building, Mail Code L-458, Room R830, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97210-3098, USA.
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Bissonnette JM. Mechanisms regulating hypoxic respiratory depression during fetal and postnatal life. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2000; 278:R1391-400. [PMID: 10848503 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.2000.278.6.r1391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Selected topics in the respiratory response to acute hypoxia in the fetus and newborn are reviewed. Peripheral chemoreceptors acting through ionotrophic glutamate receptors play an important role in affecting the initial augmentation phase. Whether fall off in peripheral chemoreceptor activity contributes to the secondary depressive phase remains controversial. A number of approaches including permanent electrolytic and reversible cooling lesions, Fos protein activation, and double-labeling immunohistochemistry has converged to show that an area in and around the locus ceruleus in the rostral pons affects the central depression. There is evidence that this is mediated by catecholamines acting at alpha(2)-adrenergic receptors. Tonic activity in early expiratory (postinspiratory) neurons may contribute to hypoxia-induced apneic episodes in the fetus and newborn. Desensitization of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-proprionic acid receptors has been demonstrated in respiratory-related neurons both in vivo and in vitro. The role that this process might play in the depressive phase of the hypoxic ventilatory response has not been established. In vitro experiments with isolated brain stem-spinal cord preparations or transverse brain stem slices usually involve anoxia, whereas whole animal experiments use 8-15% O(2). Therefore, caution must be exercised in attempting to construct a unifying framework from these two approaches.
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- J M Bissonnette
- Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Cell and Developmental Biology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon 97201-3098, USA.
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Robinson DM, Kwok H, Adams BM, Peebles KC, Funk GD. Development of the ventilatory response to hypoxia in Swiss CD-1 mice. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2000; 88:1907-14. [PMID: 10797156 DOI: 10.1152/jappl.2000.88.5.1907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We examined developmental changes in breathing pattern and the ventilatory response to hypoxia (7.4% O(2)) in unanesthetized Swiss CD-1 mice ranging in age from postnatal day 0 to 42 (P(0)-P(42)) using head-out plethysmography. The breathing pattern of P(0) mice was unstable. Apneas were frequent at P(0) (occupying 29 +/- 6% of total time) but rare by P(3) (5 +/- 2% of total time). Tidal volume increased in proportion to body mass ( approximately 10-13 ml/kg), but increases in respiratory frequency (f) (55 +/- 7, 130 +/- 13, and 207 +/- 20 cycles/min for P(0), P(3), and P(42), respectively) were responsible for developmental increases in minute ventilation (690 +/- 90, 1,530 +/- 250, and 2,170 +/- 430 ml. min(-1). kg(-1) for P(0), P(3), and P(42), respectively). Between P(0) and P(3), increases in f were mediated by reductions in apnea and inspiratory and expiratory times; beyond P(3), increases were due to reductions in expiratory time. Mice of all ages showed a biphasic hypoxic ventilatory response, which differed in two respects from the response typical of most mammals. First, the initial hyperpnea, which was greatest in mature animals, decreased developmentally from a maximum, relative to control, of 2.58 +/- 0.29 in P(0) mice to 1. 32 +/- 0.09 in P(42) mice. Second, whereas ventilation typically falls to or below control in most neonatal mammals, ventilation remained elevated relative to control throughout the hypoxic exposure in P(0) (1.73 +/- 0.31), P(3) (1.64 +/- 0.29), and P(9) (1. 34 +/- 0.17) mice but not in P(19) or P(42) mice.
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- D M Robinson
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Martin RJ, DiFiore JM, Jana L, Davis RL, Miller MJ, Coles SK, Dick TE. Persistence of the biphasic ventilatory response to hypoxia in preterm infants. J Pediatr 1998; 132:960-4. [PMID: 9627586 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(98)70391-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To characterize postnatal maturation of the biphasic ventilatory response to hypoxia in order to determine whether it persists beyond the first weeks of life in preterm infants, and the contributions of respiratory frequency and tidal volume to this response. METHODS Stable preterm infants were studied at two postnatal ages, 2 to 3 weeks (n = 12) and 4 to 8 weeks (n = 12), before hospital discharge at 35 weeks (range, 33 to 38 weeks) of postconceptional age. Infants were exposed to 5 minutes of 15% (or 13%) inspired oxygen; ventilation, oxygen saturation, end-tidal partial pressure of carbon dioxide, and heart rate were simultaneously recorded. RESULTS Minute ventilation exhibited a characteristic biphasic response to hypoxia at both postnatal ages, regardless of the development of periodic breathing. At both ages there was a transient increase in tidal volume, which peaked at 1 minute, accompanied by a sustained decrease in respiratory frequency as a result of significant prolongation of expiratory time. CONCLUSION The characteristic biphasic ventilatory response to hypoxia persists into the second month of postnatal life in preterm infants. We speculate that this finding is consistent with the prolonged vulnerability of such infants to neonatal apnea.
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- R J Martin
- Department of Pediatrics, Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-6010, USA
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