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Marullo AL, O'Halloran KD. Microbes, metabolites and muscle: Is the gut-muscle axis a plausible therapeutic target in Duchenne muscular dystrophy? Exp Physiol 2023; 108:1132-1143. [PMID: 37269541 PMCID: PMC10988500 DOI: 10.1113/ep091063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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NEW FINDINGS What is the topic of this review? The contribution of gut microbial signalling to skeletal muscle maintenance and development and identification of potential therapeutic targets in progressive muscle degenerative diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What advances does it highlight? Gut microbe-derived metabolites are multifaceted signalling molecules key to muscle function, modifying pathways contributing to skeletal muscle wasting, making them a plausible target for adjunctive therapy in muscular dystrophy. ABSTRACT Skeletal muscle is the largest metabolic organ making up ∼50% of body mass. Because skeletal muscle has both metabolic and endocrine properties, it can manipulate the microbial populations within the gut. In return, microbes exert considerable influence on skeletal muscle via numerous signalling pathways. Gut bacteria produce metabolites (i.e., short chain fatty acids, secondary bile acids and neurotransmitter substrates) that act as fuel sources and modulators of inflammation, influencing host muscle development, growth and maintenance. The reciprocal interactions between microbes, metabolites and muscle establish a bidirectional gut-muscle axis. The muscular dystrophies constitute a broad range of disorders with varying disabilities. In the profoundly debilitating monogenic disorder Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), skeletal muscle undergoes a reduction in muscle regenerative capacity leading to progressive muscle wasting, resulting in fibrotic remodelling and adipose infiltration. The loss of respiratory muscle in DMD culminates in respiratory insufficiency and eventually premature death. The pathways contributing to aberrant muscle remodelling are potentially modulated by gut microbial metabolites, thus making them plausible targets for pre- and probiotic supplementation. Prednisone, the gold standard therapy for DMD, drives gut dysbiosis, inducing a pro-inflammatory phenotype and leaky gut barrier contributing to several of the well-known side effects associated with chronic glucocorticoid treatment. Several studies have observed that gut microbial supplementation or transplantation exerts positive effects on muscle, including mitigating the side effects of prednisone. There is growing evidence in support of the potential for an adjunctive microbiota-directed regimen designed to optimise gut-muscle axis signalling, which could alleviate muscle wasting in DMD.
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- Anthony L. Marullo
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine and HealthUniversity College CorkCorkIreland
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine and HealthUniversity College CorkCorkIreland
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Milloy KM, White MG, Chicilo JOC, Cummings KJ, Pfoh JR, Day TA. Assessing central and peripheral respiratory chemoreceptor interaction in humans. Exp Physiol 2022; 107:1081-1093. [PMID: 35766127 DOI: 10.1113/ep089983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2021] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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NEW FINDINGS What is the central question of this study? We investigated the interaction between central and peripheral respiratory chemoreceptors in healthy, awake human participants by (a) using a background of step increases in steady-state normoxic fraction of inspired carbon dioxide to alter central chemoreceptor activation and (b) using the transient hypoxia test to target the peripheral chemoreceptors. What is the main finding and its importance? Our data suggests that the central-peripheral respiratory chemoreceptor interaction is additive in minute ventilation and respiratory rate, but hypoadditive in tidal volume. Our study adds important new data in reconciling chemoreceptor interaction in awake healthy humans, and is consistent with previous reports of simple addition in intact rodents and humans. ABSTRACT Arterial blood gas levels are maintained through respiratory chemoreflexes, mediated by central (CCR) in the CNS and peripheral (PCR) chemoreceptors located in the carotid bodies. The interaction between central and peripheral chemoreceptors is controversial, and few studies have investigated this interaction in awake healthy humans, in part due to methodological challenges. We investigated the interaction between the CCRs and PCRs in healthy humans using a transient hypoxia test (three consecutive breaths of 100% N2 ; TT-HVR), which targets the stimulus and temporal domain specificity of the PCRs. TT-HVRs were superimposed upon three randomized background levels of steady-state inspired fraction of normoxic CO2 (FI CO2 ; 0, 0.02 and 0.04). Chemostimuli (calculated oxygen saturation; ScO2 ) and respiratory variable responses (respiratory rate, inspired tidal volume and ventilation; RR , VTI , V̇I ), were averaged from all three TT-HVR trials at each FI CO2 level. Responses were assessed as (a) a change from BL (delta; ∆) and (b) indexed against ∆ScO2 . Aside from a significantly lower ∆VTI response in 0.04 FI CO2 (P = 0.01), the hypoxic rate responses (∆RR or ∆RR /∆ScO2 ; P = 0.46, P = 0.81), hypoxic tidal volume response (∆VTI /∆ScO2 ; P = 0.08) and the hypoxic ventilatory responses (∆V̇I and (∆V̇I /∆ScO2 ; P = 0.09 and P = 0.31) were not significantly different across FI CO2 trials. Our data suggests simple addition between central and peripheral chemoreceptors in V̇I , which is mediated through simple addition in RR responses, but hypo-addition in VTI responses. Our study adds important new data in reconciling chemoreceptor interaction in awake healthy humans, and is consistent with previous reports of simple addition in intact rodents and humans. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Kristin M Milloy
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada
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Marullo AL, Bird JD, Ciorogariu-Ivan AM, Boulet LM, Strzalkowski NDJ, Day TA. Acute hyperglycemia does not affect central respiratory chemoreflex responsiveness to CO 2 in healthy humans. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2021; 296:103803. [PMID: 34653661 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2021.103803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2021] [Revised: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The central respiratory chemoreceptor complex (CCRC) is comprised of brainstem neurons and surrounding interoceptors, which collectively increase ventilation in response to elevated brainstem tissue CO2/[H+] (i.e., central chemoreflex; CCR). The extent that the CCRC detects/responds to other metabolically related chemostimuli is unknown. We aimed to test the effects of acute oral glucose ingestion on CCR reactivity in heathy human participants (n = 38). We instrumented participants with a pneumotachometer (minute ventilation) and a gas sample line connected to a dual gas analyzer (pressure of end-tidal CO2). Following a baseline (BL) period and capillary blood [glucose] (BG) sample, fasted (F) participants underwent a modified hyperoxic rebreathing test to assess CCR reactivity. Participants then consumed a 75 g standard glucose beverage (glucose loaded; GL). Following 30-min, they underwent a second BL, BG sample and hyperoxic rebreathing test. BG and metabolic rate were higher in GL, confirming the metabolic stimulus. However, the ventilatory recruitment threshold and the CCR responses were unchanged between F and GL states.
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- Anthony L Marullo
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Centre for Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Colombia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Ogoh S, Washio T, Stacey BS, Tsukamoto H, Iannetelli A, Owens TS, Calverley TA, Fall L, Marley CJ, Saito S, Watanabe H, Hashimoto T, Ando S, Miyamoto T, Bailey DM. Integrated respiratory chemoreflex-mediated regulation of cerebral blood flow in hypoxia: Implications for oxygen delivery and acute mountain sickness. Exp Physiol 2021; 106:1922-1938. [PMID: 34318560 DOI: 10.1113/ep089660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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NEW FINDINGS What is the central question of this study? To what extent do hypoxia-induced changes in the peripheral and central respiratory chemoreflex modulate anterior and posterior cerebral oxygen delivery, with corresponding implications for susceptibility to acute mountain sickness? What is the main finding and its importance? We provide evidence for site-specific regulation of cerebral blood flow in hypoxia that preserves oxygen delivery in the posterior but not the anterior cerebral circulation, with minimal contribution from the central respiratory chemoreflex. External carotid artery vasodilatation might prove to be an alternative haemodynamic risk factor that predisposes to acute mountain sickness. ABSTRACT The aim of the present study was to determine the extent to which hypoxia-induced changes in the peripheral and central respiratory chemoreflex modulate anterior and posterior cerebral blood flow (CBF) and oxygen delivery (CDO2 ), with corresponding implications for the pathophysiology of the neurological syndrome, acute mountain sickness (AMS). Eight healthy men were randomly assigned single blind to 7 h of passive exposure to both normoxia (21% O2 ) and hypoxia (12% O2 ). The peripheral and central respiratory chemoreflex, internal carotid artery, external carotid artery (ECA) and vertebral artery blood flow (duplex ultrasound) and AMS scores (questionnaires) were measured throughout. A reduction in internal carotid artery CDO2 was observed during hypoxia despite a compensatory elevation in perfusion. In contrast, vertebral artery and ECA CDO2 were preserved, and the former was attributable to a more marked increase in perfusion. Hypoxia was associated with progressive activation of the peripheral respiratory chemoreflex (P < 0.001), whereas the central respiratory chemoreflex remained unchanged (P > 0.05). Symptom severity in participants who developed clinical AMS was positively related to ECA blood flow (Lake Louise score, r = 0.546-0.709, P = 0.004-0.043; Environmental Symptoms Questionnaires-Cerebral symptoms score, r = 0.587-0.771, P = 0.001-0.027, n = 4). Collectively, these findings highlight the site-specific regulation of CBF in hypoxia that maintains CDO2 selectively in the posterior but not the anterior cerebral circulation, with minimal contribution from the central respiratory chemoreflex. Furthermore, ECA vasodilatation might represent a hitherto unexplored haemodynamic risk factor implicated in the pathophysiology of AMS.
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- Shigehiko Ogoh
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan.,Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK.,Faculty of Sport and Health Science, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
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- Faculty of Sport and Health Science, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan
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- Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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Getsy PM, Sundararajan S, Lewis SJ. Carotid sinus nerve transection abolishes the facilitation of breathing that occurs upon cessation of a hypercapnic gas challenge in male mice. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2021; 131:821-835. [PMID: 34236243 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01031.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Arterial pCO2 elevations increase minute ventilation via activation of chemosensors within the carotid body (CB) and brainstem. Although the roles of CB chemoafferents in the hypercapnic (HC) ventilatory response have been investigated, there are no studies reporting the role of these chemoafferents in the ventilatory responses to a HC challenge or the responses that occur upon return to room air, in freely moving mice. This study found that an HC challenge (5% CO2, 21% O2, 74% N2 for 15 min) elicited an array of responses, including increases in frequency of breathing (accompanied by decreases in inspiratory and expiratory times), and increases in tidal volume, minute ventilation, peak inspiratory and expiratory flows, and inspiratory and expiratory drives in sham-operated (SHAM) adult male C57BL6 mice, and that return to room air elicited a brief excitatory phase followed by gradual recovery of all parameters toward baseline values over a 15-min period. The array of ventilatory responses to the HC challenge in mice with bilateral carotid sinus nerve transection (CSNX) performed 7 days previously occurred more slowly but reached similar maxima as SHAM mice. A major finding was responses upon return to room air were dramatically lower in CSNX mice than SHAM mice, and the parameters returned to baseline values within 1-2 min in CSNX mice, whereas it took much longer in SHAM mice. These findings are the first evidence that CB chemoafferents play a key role in initiating the ventilatory responses to HC challenge in C57BL6 mice and are essential for the expression of post-HC ventilatory responses.NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study presents the first evidence that carotid body chemoafferents play a key role in initiating the ventilatory responses, such as increases in frequency of breathing, tidal volume, and minute ventilation that occur in response to a hypercapnic gas challenge in freely moving C57BL6 mice. Our study also demonstrates for the first time that these chemoafferents are essential for the expression of the ventilatory responses that occur upon return to room air in these mice.
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- Paulina M Getsy
- Department of Pediatrics, Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Pediatrics, Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio.,Department of Pharmacology, Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Hess HW, Hostler D, Clemency BM, St James E, Johnson BD. Carotid body chemosensitivity is not attenuated during cold water diving. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2021; 321:R197-R207. [PMID: 34133244 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00202.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Tonic carotid body (CB) activity is reduced during exposure to cold and hyperoxia. We tested the hypotheses that cold water diving lowers CB chemosensitivity and augments CO2 retention more than thermoneutral diving. Thirteen subjects [age: 26 ± 4 yr; body mass index (BMI): 26 ± 2 kg/m2) completed two 4-h head-out water immersion protocols in a hyperbaric chamber (1.6 ATA) in cold (15°C) and thermoneutral (25°C) water. CB chemosensitivity was assessed with brief hypercapnic ventilatory response ([Formula: see text]) and hypoxic ventilatory response ([Formula: see text]) tests before dive, 80 and 160 min into the dive (D80 and D160, respectively), and immediately after and 60 min after dive. Data are reported as an absolute mean (SD) change from predive. End-tidal CO2 pressure increased during both the thermoneutral water dive [D160: +2 (3) mmHg; P = 0.02] and the cold water dive [D160: +1 (2) mmHg; P = 0.03]. Ventilation increased during the cold water dive [D80: 4.13 (4.38) and D160: 7.75 (5.23) L·min-1; both P < 0.01] and was greater than the thermoneutral water dive at both time points (both P < 0.01). [Formula: see text] was unchanged during the dive (P = 0.24) and was not different between conditions (P = 0.23). [Formula: see text] decreased during the thermoneutral water dive [D80: -3.45 (3.61) and D160: -2.76 (4.04) L·min·mmHg-1; P < 0.01 and P = 0.03, respectively] but not the cold water dive. However, [Formula: see text] was not different between conditions (P = 0.17). In conclusion, CB chemosensitivity was not attenuated during the cold stress diving condition and does not appear to contribute to changes in ventilation or CO2 retention.
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- Hayden W Hess
- Center for Research and Education in Special Environments, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.,Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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- Center for Research and Education in Special Environments, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.,Department of Emergency Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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- Center for Research and Education in Special Environments, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.,Department of Emergency Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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- Center for Research and Education in Special Environments, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.,Department of Emergency Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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- Center for Research and Education in Special Environments, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.,Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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Magor-Elliott SRM, Fullerton CJ, Richmond G, Ritchie GAD, Robbins PA. A dynamic model of the body gas stores for carbon dioxide, oxygen, and inert gases that incorporates circulatory transport delays to and from the lung. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2021; 130:1383-1397. [PMID: 33475459 PMCID: PMC8354828 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00764.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Many models of the body’s gas stores have been generated for specific purposes. Here, we seek to produce a more general purpose model that: 1) is relevant for both respiratory (CO2 and O2) and inert gases; 2) is based firmly on anatomy and not arbitrary compartments; 3) can be scaled to individuals; and 4) incorporates arterial and venous circulatory delays as well as tissue volumes so that it can reflect rapid transients with greater precision. First, a “standard man” of 11 compartments was produced, based on data compiled by the International Radiation Protection Commission. Each compartment was supplied via its own parallel circulation, the arterial and venous volumes of which were based on reported tissue blood volumes together with data from a detailed anatomical model for the large arteries and veins. A previously published model was used for the blood gas chemistry of CO2 and O2. It was not permissible ethically to insert pulmonary artery catheters into healthy volunteers for model validation. Therefore, validation was undertaken by comparing model predictions with previously published data and by comparing model predictions with experimental data for transients in gas exchange at the mouth following changes in alveolar gas composition. Overall, model transients were fastest for O2, intermediate for CO2, and slowest for N2. There was good agreement between model estimates and experimentally measured data. Potential applications of the model include estimation of closed-loop gain for the ventilatory chemoreflexes and improving the precision associated with multibreath washout testing and respiratory measurement of cardiac output. NEW & NOTEWORTHY A model for the body gas stores has been generated that is applicable to both respiratory gases (CO2 and O2) and inert gases. It is based on anatomical details for organ volumes and blood contents together with anatomical details of the large arteries. It can be scaled to the body size and composition of different individuals. The model enables mixed venous gas compositions to be predicted from the systemic arterial compositions.
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Bruce CD, Vanden Berg ER, Pfoh JR, Steinback CD, Day TA. Prior oxygenation, but not chemoreflex responsiveness, determines breath-hold duration during voluntary apnea. Physiol Rep 2021; 9:e14664. [PMID: 33393725 PMCID: PMC7780234 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.14664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2020] [Revised: 11/05/2020] [Accepted: 11/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Central and peripheral respiratory chemoreceptors are stimulated during voluntary breath holding due to chemostimuli (i.e., hypoxia and hypercapnia) accumulating at the metabolic rate. We hypothesized that voluntary breath-hold duration (BHD) would be (a) positively related to the initial pressure of inspired oxygen prior to breath holding, and (b) negatively correlated with respiratory chemoreflex responsiveness. In 16 healthy participants, voluntary breath holds were performed under three conditions: hyperoxia (following five normal tidal breaths of 100% O2 ), normoxia (breathing room air), and hypoxia (following ~30-min of 13.5%-14% inspired O2 ). In addition, the hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) was tested and steady-state chemoreflex drive (SS-CD) was calculated in room air and during steady-state hypoxia. We found that (a) voluntary BHD was positively related to initial oxygen status in a dose-dependent fashion, (b) the HVR was not correlated with BHD in any oxygen condition, and (c) SS-CD magnitude was not correlated with BHD in normoxia or hypoxia. Although chemoreceptors are likely stimulated during breath holding, they appear to contribute less to BHD compared to other factors such as volitional drive or lung volume.
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- Christina D. Bruce
- Department of BiologyFaculty of Science and TechnologyMount Royal UniversityCalgaryABCanada
- School of Health and Exercise SciencesCentre for Heart, Lung and Vascular HealthFaculty of Health and Social DevelopmentUniversity of British ColumbiaKelownaBCCanada
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- Department of BiologyFaculty of Science and TechnologyMount Royal UniversityCalgaryABCanada
- Department of BiologyFaculty of ScienceUniversity of VictoriaVictoriaBCCanada
- Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and RecreationUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonABCanada
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- Department of BiologyFaculty of Science and TechnologyMount Royal UniversityCalgaryABCanada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and RecreationUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonABCanada
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- Department of BiologyFaculty of Science and TechnologyMount Royal UniversityCalgaryABCanada
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Hess HW, Hostler D, Clemency BM, Johnson BD. Carotid body chemosensitivity at 1.6 ATA breathing air versus 100% oxygen. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2020; 129:247-256. [PMID: 32584669 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00275.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Hyperoxia reduces the ventilatory response to hypercapnia by suppressing carotid body (CB) activation. This effect may contribute to CO2 retention during underwater diving due to the high arterial O2 content associated with hyperbaria. We tested the hypothesis that CB chemosensitivity to hypercapnia and hypoxia is attenuated during hyperbaria. Ten subjects completed two, 4-h dry dives at 1.6 atmosphere absolute (ATA) breathing either 21% O2 (Air) or 100% O2 (100% O2). CB chemosensitivity was assessed using brief hypercapnic ventilatory response ([Formula: see text]) and hypoxic ventilatory response ([Formula: see text]) tests predive, 75 and 155 min into the dives, and 15 and 55 min postdive. End-tidal CO2 pressure increased during the dive at 75 and 155 min [Air: +9 (SD 4) mmHg and +8 (SD 4) mmHg versus 100% O2: +6 (SD 4) mmHg and +5 (SD 3) mmHg; all P < 0.01] and was higher while breathing Air (P < 0.01). [Formula: see text] was unchanged during the dive (P = 0.73) and was not different between conditions (P = 0.47). However, [Formula: see text] was attenuated from predive during the dive at 155 min breathing Air [-0.035 (SD 0.037) L·min·mmHg-1; P = 0.02] and at both time points while breathing 100% O2 [-0.035 (SD 0.052) L·min·mmHg-1 and -0.034 (SD 0.064) L·min·mmHg-1; P = 0.02 and P = 0.02, respectively]. These data indicate that the CB chemoreceptors do not appear to contribute to CO2 retention in hyperbaria.NEW & NOTEWORTHY We demonstrate that carotid body chemosensitivity to brief exposures of hypercapnia was unchanged during a 4-h dive in a dry hyperbaric chamber at 1.6 ATA regardless of breathing gas condition [i.e., air (21% O2) versus 100% oxygen]. Therefore, it appears that an attenuation of carotid body chemosensitivity to hypercapnia does not contribute to CO2 retention in hyperbaria.
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- Hayden W Hess
- Center for Research and Education in Special Environments, Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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- Center for Research and Education in Special Environments, Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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- Center for Research and Education in Special Environments, Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.,Department of Emergency Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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- Center for Research and Education in Special Environments, Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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What Is the Point of the Peak? Assessing Steady-State Respiratory Chemoreflex Drive in High Altitude Field Studies. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2019. [PMID: 30357729 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91137-3_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Measurements of central and peripheral respiratory chemoreflexes are important in the context of high altitude as indices of ventilatory acclimatization. However, respiratory chemoreflex tests have many caveats in the field, including considerations of safety, portability and consistency. This overview will (a) outline commonly utilized tests of the hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) in humans, (b) outline the caveats associated with a variety of peak response HVR tests in the laboratory and in high altitude fieldwork contexts, and (c) advance a novel index of steady-state chemoreflex drive (SS-CD) that addresses the many limitations of other chemoreflex tests. The SS-CD takes into account the contribution of central and peripheral respiratory chemoreceptors, and eliminates the need for complex equipment and transient respiratory gas perturbation tests. To quantify the SS-CD, steady-state measurements of the pressure of end-tidal (PET)CO2 (Torr) and peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2; %) are used to quantify a stimulus index (SI; PETCO2/SpO2). The SS-CD is then calculated by indexing resting ventilation (L/min) against the SI. SS-CD data are subsequently reported from 13 participants during incremental ascent to high altitude (5160 m) in the Nepal Himalaya. The mean SS-CD magnitude increased approximately 96% over 10 days of incremental exposure to hypobaric hypoxia, suggesting that the SS-CD tracks ventilatory acclimatization. This novel SS-CD may have future utility in fieldwork studies assessing ventilatory acclimatization during incremental or prolonged stays at altitude, and may replace the use of complex and potentially confounded transient peak response tests of the HVR in humans.
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Bokov P, Matrot B, Gallego J, Delclaux C. Comparison of methods of chemical loop gain measurement during tidal ventilation in awake healthy subjects. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2018; 125:1681-1692. [DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00010.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The loop gain (LG) is defined as the ratio of a ventilatory response over the perturbation in ventilation, and it is used to analyze ventilatory control stability. The LG can be derived from minute ventilation (V̇e), end-tidal Pco2 ([Formula: see text]), and end-tidal Po2 ([Formula: see text]) values. Several methods of LG assessment have been developed, which have never been compared. We evaluated the computability, the short-term repeatability, and the agreement of six published (or slightly modified) models for LG determination. These models included three unconstrained autoregressive models, univariate (V̇e), bivariate (V̇e, [Formula: see text]), and trivariate (V̇e, [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text]), and three analytical transfer function constrained models based on V̇e, V̇e and CO2-sensitivity, and V̇e and central and peripheral CO2 sensitivities, respectively. The models were tested with tidal breathing data in 37 awake healthy subjects (median age 35 yr; 23 women, 14 men). Modeling failed in 11, 0, and 0 subjects for the three unconstrained models, respectively, and 4, 1, and 9 subjects for the three constrained models, respectively. Bland and Altman analyses of the LG values in the medium frequency range of two separate recordings demonstrated good repeatability for four models, excluding univariate and trivariate unconstrained models. The four repeatable models gave LG values that were in agreement (medium frequency LG, median 0.100–0.210), although the constrained model based on V̇e systematically overestimated LG values. The variances explained by these models were ∼20%. In conclusion, model-based analyses of tidal breathing were performed with different approaches that gave comparable results for chemical LG and explained variance. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Several methods of chemical loop gain measurement have been published but never compared. We show that a better repeatability is obtained with analytical constrained models compared with autoregressive unconstrained models and that the repeatable models gave comparable results of loop gain, even if the calculation based on ventilation-only recording gave higher values than those obtained with both ventilation and end-tidal Pco2 recording. The explained variance of ventilation was similar whatever the model.
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- Plamen Bokov
- INSERM, UMR1141, Hôpital Universitaire Robert Debré, Paris, France
- Service de Physiologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Universitaire Robert Debré, AP-HP, Paris, France
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR1141, Hôpital Universitaire Robert Debré, Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR1141, Hôpital Universitaire Robert Debré, Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR1141, Hôpital Universitaire Robert Debré, Paris, France
- Service de Physiologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Universitaire Robert Debré, AP-HP, Paris, France
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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Nava-Guerra L, Edwards BA, Terrill PI, Sands SA, Amin RS, Kemp JS, Khoo MCK. Quantifying ventilatory control stability from spontaneous sigh responses during sleep: a comparison of two approaches. Physiol Meas 2018; 39:114005. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/aae7a9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Prokopiou PC, Pattinson KTS, Wise RG, Mitsis GD. Modeling of dynamic cerebrovascular reactivity to spontaneous and externally induced CO 2 fluctuations in the human brain using BOLD-fMRI. Neuroimage 2018; 186:533-548. [PMID: 30423427 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2018] [Revised: 10/09/2018] [Accepted: 10/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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In this work, we investigate the regional characteristics of the dynamic interactions between arterial CO2 and BOLD (dynamic cerebrovascular reactivity - dCVR) during normal breathing and hypercapnic, externally induced step CO2 challenges. To obtain dCVR curves at each voxel, we use a custom set of basis functions based on the Laguerre and gamma basis sets. This allows us to obtain robust dCVR estimates both in larger regions of interest (ROIs), as well as in individual voxels. We also implement classification schemes to identify brain regions with similar dCVR characteristics. Our results reveal considerable variability of dCVR across different brain regions, as well as during different experimental conditions (normal breathing and hypercapnic challenges), suggesting a differential response of cerebral vasculature to spontaneous CO2 fluctuations and larger, externally induced CO2 changes that are possibly associated with the underlying differences in mean arterial CO2 levels. The clustering results suggest that anatomically distinct brain regions are characterized by different dCVR curves that in some cases do not exhibit the standard, positive valued curves that have been previously reported. They also reveal a consistent set of dCVR cluster shapes for resting and forcing conditions, which exhibit different distribution patterns across brain voxels.
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- Prokopis C Prokopiou
- Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institude, H3A 2B4, QC, Canada
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- Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
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- CUBRIC, School of Psychology, University of Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering, McGill Univesity, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C3, Canada; Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institude, H3A 2B4, QC, Canada.
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Hermand E, Lhuissier FJ, Voituron N, Richalet JP. Ventilatory oscillations at exercise in hypoxia: A mathematical model. J Theor Biol 2016; 411:92-101. [PMID: 27743839 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.10.002] [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: 03/22/2016] [Revised: 09/01/2016] [Accepted: 10/04/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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We evaluated the mechanisms responsible for the instability of ventilation control system under simultaneous metabolic (exercise) and environmental (hypoxia) stresses, promoting the genesis of periodic breathing. A model following the main concepts of ventilatory control has been tested, including cardiovascular and respiratory parameters, characteristics of peripheral and central chemoreceptors, at mild exercise in hypoxia (FIO2=0.145). Interaction between O2 and CO2 sensing was introduced following three different modalities. A sensitivity and multivariate regression analyses closely matched with physiological data for magnitude and period of oscillations. Low FIO2 and long circulatory delay from lungs to peripheral chemoreceptors (DeltaTp) lengthen the period of oscillations, while high peripheral and central chemoresponses to O2 and CO2, low FIO2 and high DeltaTp increased their magnitude. Peripheral and central O2/CO2 interactions highlight the role of CO2 on peripheral gain to O2 and the contribution of peripheral afferences on central gain to CO2. Our model supports the key role of peripheral chemoreceptors in the genesis of ventilatory oscillations. Differences in the dynamics of central and peripheral components might be determinant for the system stability.
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- Eric Hermand
- Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Laboratoire "Hypoxie et poumons", EA2363, 74 rue Marcel Cachin, 93017 Bobigny Cedex, France.
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- Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Laboratoire "Hypoxie et poumons", EA2363, 74 rue Marcel Cachin, 93017 Bobigny Cedex, France
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- Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Laboratoire "Hypoxie et poumons", EA2363, 74 rue Marcel Cachin, 93017 Bobigny Cedex, France
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- Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Laboratoire "Hypoxie et poumons", EA2363, 74 rue Marcel Cachin, 93017 Bobigny Cedex, France.
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Boulet LM, Tymko MM, Jamieson AN, Ainslie PN, Skow RJ, Day TA. Influence of prior hyperventilation duration on respiratory chemosensitivity and cerebrovascular reactivity during modified hyperoxic rebreathing. Exp Physiol 2016; 101:821-35. [DOI: 10.1113/ep085706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2016] [Accepted: 03/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Lindsey M. Boulet
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology; Mount Royal University; Calgary Alberta Canada
- School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Development; University of British Columbia Okanagan; Kelowna British Columbia Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology; Mount Royal University; Calgary Alberta Canada
- School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Development; University of British Columbia Okanagan; Kelowna British Columbia Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology; Mount Royal University; Calgary Alberta Canada
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- School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Development; University of British Columbia Okanagan; Kelowna British Columbia Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology; Mount Royal University; Calgary Alberta Canada
- Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation; University of Alberta; Edmonton Alberta Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology; Mount Royal University; Calgary Alberta Canada
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Wilson RJA, Teppema LJ. Integration of Central and Peripheral Respiratory Chemoreflexes. Compr Physiol 2016; 6:1005-41. [PMID: 27065173 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c140040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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A debate has raged since the discovery of central and peripheral respiratory chemoreceptors as to whether the reflexes they mediate combine in an additive (i.e., no interaction), hypoadditive or hyperadditive manner. Here we critically review pertinent literature related to O2 and CO2 sensing from the perspective of system integration and summarize many of the studies on which these seemingly opposing views are based. Despite the intensity and quality of this debate, we have yet to reach consensus, either within or between species. In reviewing this literature, we are struck by the merits of the approaches and preparations that have been brought to bear on this question. This suggests that either the nature of combination is not important to system responses, contrary to what has long been supposed, or that the nature of the combination is more malleable than previously assumed, changing depending on physiological state and/or respiratory requirement.
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- Richard J A Wilson
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Alberta Children Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Pfoh JR, Tymko MM, Abrosimova M, Boulet LM, Foster GE, Bain AR, Ainslie PN, Steinback CD, Bruce CD, Day TA. Comparing and characterizing transient and steady-state tests of the peripheral chemoreflex in humans. Exp Physiol 2016; 101:432-47. [DOI: 10.1113/ep085498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Jamie R. Pfoh
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology; Mount Royal University; Calgary Alberta Canada
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- School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Development; University of British Columbia Okanagan; Kelowna British Columbia Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology; Mount Royal University; Calgary Alberta Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology; Mount Royal University; Calgary Alberta Canada
- School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Development; University of British Columbia Okanagan; Kelowna British Columbia Canada
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- School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Development; University of British Columbia Okanagan; Kelowna British Columbia Canada
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- School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Development; University of British Columbia Okanagan; Kelowna British Columbia Canada
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- School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Development; University of British Columbia Okanagan; Kelowna British Columbia Canada
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- Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation; University of Alberta; Edmonton Alberta Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology; Mount Royal University; Calgary Alberta Canada
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology; Mount Royal University; Calgary Alberta Canada
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Fatemian M, Herigstad M, Croft QPP, Formenti F, Cardenas R, Wheeler C, Smith TG, Friedmannova M, Dorrington KL, Robbins PA. Determinants of ventilation and pulmonary artery pressure during early acclimatization to hypoxia in humans. J Physiol 2016; 594:1197-213. [PMID: 25907672 PMCID: PMC4771781 DOI: 10.1113/jp270061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2014] [Accepted: 04/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Pulmonary ventilation and pulmonary arterial pressure both rise progressively during the first few hours of human acclimatization to hypoxia. These responses are highly variable between individuals, but the origin of this variability is unknown. Here, we sought to determine whether the variabilities between different measures of response to sustained hypoxia were related, which would suggest a common source of variability. Eighty volunteers individually underwent an 8-h isocapnic exposure to hypoxia (end-tidal P(O2)=55 Torr) in a purpose-built chamber. Measurements of ventilation and pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) assessed by Doppler echocardiography were made during the exposure. Before and after the exposure, measurements were made of the ventilatory sensitivities to acute isocapnic hypoxia (G(pO2)) and hyperoxic hypercapnia, the latter divided into peripheral (G(pCO2)) and central (G(cCO2)) components. Substantial acclimatization was observed in both ventilation and PASP, the latter being 40% greater in women than men. No correlation was found between the magnitudes of pulmonary ventilatory and pulmonary vascular responses. For G(pO2), G(pCO2) and G(cC O2), but not the sensitivity of PASP to acute hypoxia, the magnitude of the increase during acclimatization was proportional to the pre-acclimatization value. Additionally, the change in G(pO2) during acclimatization to hypoxia correlated well with most other measures of ventilatory acclimatization. Of the initial measurements prior to sustained hypoxia, only G(pCO2) predicted the subsequent rise in ventilation and change in G(pO2) during acclimatization. We conclude that the magnitudes of the ventilatory and pulmonary vascular responses to sustained hypoxia are predominantly determined by different factors and that the initial G(pCO2) is a modest predictor of ventilatory acclimatization.
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- Marzieh Fatemian
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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Pendergast DR, Moon RE, Krasney JJ, Held HE, Zamparo P. Human Physiology in an Aquatic Environment. Compr Physiol 2015; 5:1705-50. [PMID: 26426465 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c140018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Water covers over 70% of the earth, has varying depths and temperatures and contains much of the earth's resources. Head-out water immersion (HOWI) or submersion at various depths (diving) in water of thermoneutral (TN) temperature elicits profound cardiorespiratory, endocrine, and renal responses. The translocation of blood into the thorax and elevation of plasma volume by autotransfusion of fluid from cells to the vascular compartment lead to increased cardiac stroke volume and output and there is a hyperperfusion of some tissues. Pulmonary artery and capillary hydrostatic pressures increase causing a decline in vital capacity with the potential for pulmonary edema. Atrial stretch and increased arterial pressure cause reflex autonomic responses which result in endocrine changes that return plasma volume and arterial pressure to preimmersion levels. Plasma volume is regulated via a reflex diuresis and natriuresis. Hydrostatic pressure also leads to elastic loading of the chest, increasing work of breathing, energy cost, and thus blood flow to respiratory muscles. Decreases in water temperature in HOWI do not affect the cardiac output compared to TN; however, they influence heart rate and the distribution of muscle and fat blood flow. The reduced muscle blood flow results in a reduced maximal oxygen consumption. The properties of water determine the mechanical load and the physiological responses during exercise in water (e.g. swimming and water based activities). Increased hydrostatic pressure caused by submersion does not affect stroke volume; however, progressive bradycardia decreases cardiac output. During submersion, compressed gas must be breathed which introduces the potential for oxygen toxicity, narcosis due to nitrogen, and tissue and vascular gas bubbles during decompression and after may cause pain in joints and the nervous system.
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- David R Pendergast
- Center for Research and Education in Special Environments, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Biomedical Hyperbarics Research Laboratory, Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Neurological and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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Smith CA, Blain GM, Henderson KS, Dempsey JA. Peripheral chemoreceptors determine the respiratory sensitivity of central chemoreceptors to CO2 : role of carotid body CO2. J Physiol 2015; 593:4225-43. [PMID: 26171601 DOI: 10.1113/jp270114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2014] [Accepted: 06/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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We asked if the type of carotid body (CB) chemoreceptor stimulus influenced the ventilatory gain of the central chemoreceptors to CO2 . The effect of CB normoxic hypocapnia, normocapnia and hypercapnia (carotid body PCO2 ≈ 22, 41 and 68 mmHg, respectively) on the ventilatory CO2 sensitivity of central chemoreceptors was studied in seven awake dogs with vascularly-isolated and extracorporeally-perfused CBs. Chemosensitivity with one CB was similar to that in intact dogs. In four CB-denervated dogs, absence of hyper-/hypoventilatory responses to CB perfusion with PCO2 of 19-75 mmHg confirmed separation of the perfused CB circulation from the brain. The group mean central CO2 response slopes were increased 303% for minute ventilation (V̇I)(P ≤ 0.01) and 251% for mean inspiratory flow rate (VT /TI ) (P ≤ 0.05) when the CB was hypercapnic vs. hypocapnic; central CO2 response slopes for tidal volume (VT ), breathing frequency (fb ) and rate of rise of the diaphragm EMG increased in 6 of 7 animals but the group mean changes did not reach statistical significance. Group mean central CO2 response slopes were also increased 237% for V̇I(P ≤ 0.01) and 249% for VT /TI (P ≤ 0.05) when the CB was normocapnic vs. hypocapnic, but no significant differences in any of the central ventilatory response indices were found between CB normocapnia and hypercapnia. These hyperadditive effects of CB hyper-/hypocapnia agree with previous findings using CB hyper-/hypoxia.We propose that hyperaddition is the dominant form of chemoreceptor interaction in quiet wakefulness when the chemosensory control system is intact, response gains physiological, and carotid body chemoreceptors are driven by a wide range of O2 and/or CO2 .
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- Curtis A Smith
- The John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- The John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.,University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Toulon, LAMHESS, EA 6309, F-06205, Nice, France
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- The John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- The John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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Terrill PI, Edwards BA, Nemati S, Butler JP, Owens RL, Eckert DJ, White DP, Malhotra A, Wellman A, Sands SA. Quantifying the ventilatory control contribution to sleep apnoea using polysomnography. Eur Respir J 2014; 45:408-18. [PMID: 25323235 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00062914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Elevated loop gain, consequent to hypersensitive ventilatory control, is a primary nonanatomical cause of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) but it is not possible to quantify this in the clinic. Here we provide a novel method to estimate loop gain in OSA patients using routine clinical polysomnography alone. We use the concept that spontaneous ventilatory fluctuations due to apnoeas/hypopnoeas (disturbance) result in opposing changes in ventilatory drive (response) as determined by loop gain (response/disturbance). Fitting a simple ventilatory control model (including chemical and arousal contributions to ventilatory drive) to the ventilatory pattern of OSA reveals the underlying loop gain. Following mathematical-model validation, we critically tested our method in patients with OSA by comparison with a standard (continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) drop method), and by assessing its ability to detect the known reduction in loop gain with oxygen and acetazolamide. Our method quantified loop gain from baseline polysomnography (correlation versus CPAP-estimated loop gain: n=28; r=0.63, p<0.001), detected the known reduction in loop gain with oxygen (n=11; mean±sem change in loop gain (ΔLG) -0.23±0.08, p=0.02) and acetazolamide (n=11; ΔLG -0.20±0.06, p=0.005), and predicted the OSA response to loop gain-lowering therapy. We validated a means to quantify the ventilatory control contribution to OSA pathogenesis using clinical polysomnography, enabling identification of likely responders to therapies targeting ventilatory control.
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- Philip I Terrill
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Neuroscience Research Australia and the School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Southern California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Central Clinical School, The Alfred and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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Duffin J, Mateika JH. Cross-Talk opposing view: peripheral and central chemoreflexes have additive effects on ventilation in humans. J Physiol 2014; 591:4351-3. [PMID: 24037126 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.256800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Skow RJ, Tymko MM, MacKay CM, Steinback CD, Day TA. The effects of head-up and head-down tilt on central respiratory chemoreflex loop gain tested by hyperoxic rebreathing. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2014; 212:149-72. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-63488-7.00009-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Babb TG. Obesity: challenges to ventilatory control during exercise--a brief review. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2013; 189:364-70. [PMID: 23707540 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2013.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2013] [Revised: 05/14/2013] [Accepted: 05/15/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Obesity is a national health issue in the US. Among the many physiological changes induced by obesity, it also presents a unique challenge to ventilatory control during exercise due to increased metabolic demand of moving larger limbs, increased work of breathing due to extra weight on the chest wall, and changes in breathing mechanics. These challenges to ventilatory control in obesity can be inconspicuous or overt among obese adults but for the most part adaptation of ventilatory control during exercise in obesity appears remarkably unnoticed in the majority of obese people. In this brief review, the changes to ventilatory control required for maintaining normal ventilation during exercise will be examined, especially the interaction between respiratory neural drive and ventilation. Also, gaps in our current knowledge will be discussed.
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- Tony G Babb
- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75231, United States.
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Prokopiou PC, Pattinson KT, Wise RG, Mitsis GD. Identification of the regional variability of the brain hemodynamic response to spontaneous and step-induced CO2 changes using function expansions*. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.3182/20120711-3-be-2027.00382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Cui Z, Fisher J, Duffin J. Central-peripheral respiratory chemoreflex interaction in humans. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2012; 180:126-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2011.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2011] [Revised: 11/03/2011] [Accepted: 11/04/2011] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Measuring the respiratory chemoreflexes in humans. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2011; 177:71-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2011.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2011] [Accepted: 04/08/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Nemati S, Edwards BA, Sands SA, Berger PJ, Wellman A, Verghese GC, Malhotra A, Butler JP. Model-based characterization of ventilatory stability using spontaneous breathing. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2011; 111:55-67. [PMID: 21474696 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01358.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Cyclic ventilatory instabilities are widely attributed to an increase in the sensitivity or loop gain of the chemoreflex feedback loop controlling ventilation. A major limitation in the conventional characterization of this feedback loop is the need for labor-intensive methodologies. To overcome this limitation, we developed a method based on trivariate autoregressive modeling using ventilation, end-tidal Pco(2) and Po(2); this method provides for estimation of the overall "loop gain" of the respiratory control system and its components, chemoreflex gain and plant gain. Our method was applied to recordings of spontaneous breathing in 15 anesthetized, tracheostomized, newborn lambs before and after administration of domperidone (a dopamine D(2)-receptor antagonist that increases carotid body sensitivity). We quantified the known increase in hypoxic ventilatory sensitivity in response to domperidone; controller gain for O(2) increased from 0.06 (0.03, 0.09) l·min(-1)·mmHg(-1) to 0.09 (0.08, 0.13) l·min(-1)·mmHg(-1); median (interquartile-range). We also report that domperidone increased the loop gain of the control system more than twofold [0.14 (0.12, 0.22) to 0.40 (0.15, 0.57)]. We observed no significant changes in CO(2) controller gain, or plant gains for O(2) and CO(2). Furthermore, our estimate of the cycle duration of periodic breathing compared favorably with that observed experimentally [measured: 7.5 (7.2, 9.1) vs. predicted: 7.9 (7.0, 9.2) breaths]. Our results demonstrate that model-based analysis of spontaneous breathing can 1) characterize the dynamics of the respiratory control system, and 2) provide a simple tool for elucidating an individual's propensity for ventilatory instability, in turn allowing potential therapies to be directed at the underlying mechanisms.
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- Shamim Nemati
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Snaterse M, Ton R, Kuo AD, Donelan JM. Distinct fast and slow processes contribute to the selection of preferred step frequency during human walking. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2011; 110:1682-90. [PMID: 21393467 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00536.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Humans spontaneously select a step frequency that minimizes the energy expenditure of walking. This selection might be embedded within the neural circuits that generate gait so that the optimum is pre-programmed for a given walking speed. Or perhaps step frequency is directly optimized, based on sensed feedback of energy expenditure. Direct optimization is expected to be slow due to the compounded effect of delays and iteration, whereas a pre-programmed mechanism presumably allows for faster step frequency selection, albeit dependent on prior experience. To test for both pre-programmed selection and direct optimization, we applied perturbations to treadmill walking to elicit transient changes in step frequency. We found that human step frequency adjustments (n = 7) occurred with two components, the first dominating the response (66 ± 10% of total amplitude change; mean ± SD) and occurring quite quickly (1.44 ± 1.14 s to complete 95% of total change). The other component was of smaller amplitude (35 ± 10% of total change) and took tens of seconds (27.56 ± 16.18 s for 95% completion). The fast process appeared to be too fast for direct optimization and more indicative of a pre-programmed response. It also persisted even with unusual closed-loop perturbations that conflicted with prior experience and rendered the response energetically suboptimal. The slow process was more consistent with the timing expected for direct optimization. Our interpretation of these results is that humans may rely heavily on pre-programmed gaits to rapidly select their preferred step frequency and then gradually fine-tune that selection with direct optimization.
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- Mark Snaterse
- Dept. of Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology, Simon Fraser Univ., 8888 Univ. Dr., Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6.
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Fraser JAV, Peacher DF, Freiberger JJ, Natoli MJ, Schinazi EA, Beck IV, Walker JR, Doar PO, Boso AE, Walker AJ, Kernagis DN, Moon RE. Risk factors for immersion pulmonary edema: hyperoxia does not attenuate pulmonary hypertension associated with cold water-immersed prone exercise at 4.7 ATA. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2010; 110:610-8. [PMID: 21148341 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01088.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Hyperoxia has been shown to attenuate the increase in pulmonary artery (PA) pressure associated with immersed exercise in thermoneutral water, which could serve as a possible preventive strategy for the development of immersion pulmonary edema (IPE). We tested the hypothesis that the same is true during exercise in cold water. Six healthy volunteers instrumented with arterial and PA catheters were studied during two 16-min exercise trials during prone immersion in cold water (19.9-20.9°C) in normoxia [0.21 atmospheres absolute (ATA)] and hyperoxia (1.75 ATA) at 4.7 ATA. Heart rate (HR), Fick cardiac output (CO), mean arterial pressure (MAP), pulmonary artery pressure (PAP), pulmonary artery wedge pressure (PAWP), central venous pressure (CVP), arterial and venous blood gases, and ventilatory parameters were measured both early (E, 5-6 min) and late (L, 15-16 min) in exercise. During exercise at an average oxygen consumption rate (Vo(2)) of 2.38 l/min, [corrected] CO, CVP, and pulmonary vascular resistance were not affected by inspired (Vo(2)) [corrected] or exercise duration. Minute ventilation (Ve), alveolar ventilation (Va), and ventilation frequency (f) were significantly lower in hyperoxia compared with normoxia (mean ± SD: Ve 58.8 ± 8.0 vs. 65.1 ± 9.2, P = 0.003; Va 40.2 ± 5.4 vs. 44.2 ± 9.0, P = 0.01; f 25.4 ± 5.4 vs. 27.2 ± 4.2, P = 0.04). Mixed venous pH was lower in hyperoxia compared with normoxia (7.17 ± 0.07 vs. 7.20 ± 0.07), and this result was significant early in exercise (P = 0.002). There was no difference in mean PAP (MPAP: 28.28 ± 8.1 and 29.09 ± 14.3 mmHg) or PAWP (18.0 ± 7.6 and 18.7 ± 8.7 mmHg) between normoxia and hyperoxia, respectively. PAWP decreased from early to late exercise in hyperoxia (P = 0.002). These results suggest that the increase in pulmonary vascular pressures associated with cold water immersion is not attenuated with hyperoxia.
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- J A V Fraser
- Dept. of Anesthesiology, Box 3094, Duke Univ. Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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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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Slessarev M, Prisman E, Ito S, Watson RR, Jensen D, Preiss D, Greene R, Norboo T, Stobdan T, Diskit D, Norboo A, Kunzang M, Appenzeller O, Duffin J, Fisher JA. Differences in the control of breathing between Himalayan and sea-level residents. J Physiol 2010; 588:1591-606. [PMID: 20194122 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.185504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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We compared the control of breathing of 12 male Himalayan highlanders with that of 21 male sea-level Caucasian lowlanders using isoxic hyperoxic ( = 150 mmHg) and hypoxic ( = 50 mmHg) Duffin's rebreathing tests. Highlanders had lower mean +/- s.e.m. ventilatory sensitivities to CO(2) than lowlanders at both isoxic tensions (hyperoxic: 2.3 +/- 0.3 vs. 4.2 +/- 0.3 l min(1) mmHg(1), P = 0.021; hypoxic: 2.8 +/- 0.3 vs. 7.1 +/- 0.6 l min(1) mmHg(1), P < 0.001), and the usual increase in ventilatory sensitivity to CO(2) induced by hypoxia in lowlanders was absent in highlanders (P = 0.361). Furthermore, the ventilatory recruitment threshold (VRT) CO(2) tensions in highlanders were lower than in lowlanders (hyperoxic: 33.8 +/- 0.9 vs. 48.9 +/- 0.7 mmHg, P < 0.001; hypoxic: 31.2 +/- 1.1 vs. 44.7 +/- 0.7 mmHg, P < 0.001). Both groups had reduced ventilatory recruitment thresholds with hypoxia (P < 0.001) and there were no differences in the sub-threshold ventilations (non-chemoreflex drives to breathe) between lowlanders and highlanders at both isoxic tensions (P = 0.982), with a trend for higher basal ventilation during hypoxia (P = 0.052). We conclude that control of breathing in Himalayan highlanders is distinctly different from that of sea-level lowlanders. Specifically, Himalayan highlanders have decreased central and absent peripheral sensitivities to CO(2). Their response to hypoxia was heterogeneous, with the majority decreasing their VRT indicating either a CO(2)-independent increase in activity of peripheral chemoreceptor or hypoxia-induced increase in [H(+)] at the central chemoreceptor. In some highlanders, the decrease in VRT was accompanied by an increase in sensitivity to CO(2), while in others VRT remained unchanged and their sub-threshold ventilations increased, although these were not statistically significant.
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- M Slessarev
- Department of Anesthesia, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Mitsis GD. Nonlinear, data-driven modeling of cardiorespiratory control mechanisms. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2009; 2009:4360-6. [PMID: 19964356 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2009.5333806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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We present applications of recently developed algorithms for data-driven nonlinear systems identification to the study of cardiovascular and respiratory control mechanisms on an integrated systems level, utilizing experimental data obtained during resting conditions. Specifically, we consider cerebrovascular regulation during normal conditions, orthostatic stress and autonomic blockade in a two-input context, as well as respiratory control during a model opioid drug (remifentanil) infusion in a closed-loop context. The results illustrate the potential of using data-driven modeling approaches, which do not rely on prior assumptions about model structure, for modeling physiological systems, as they are well-suited to their complexity. They also illustrate the potential of utilizing spontaneous physiological variability, which can be monitored noninvasively and does not require experimental interventions, to extract rich information about the function of the underlying mechanisms. We also discuss some important practical issues, such as the presence of nonstationarities and model order selection, related to the application of similar approaches to the analysis of physiological systems.
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- Georgios D Mitsis
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Maintaining spontaneous respiration during intravenous anesthesia for investigative and surgical procedures may avoid the need for airway instrumentation and reduce the risk of desaturation. In addition, when performing airway endoscopic procedures in children, maintaining spontaneous respiration while using intravenous anesthesia can reduce the need for endotracheal intubation. This facilitates improved access to the smaller airway, allows assessment of the dynamic function of the airway, and reduces exposure of personnel to inhaled anesthetic agents. RECENT FINDINGS Anesthetic hypnotic and analgesic agents are potent dose-dependent depressants of respiration. Infants have historically been considered to be at a higher risk of respiratory depression, especially from opioid analgesics. However, recent evidence suggests that infants and younger children outside the neonatal period are more resistant to the effects of remifentanil, even when combined with propofol. Spontaneous respiration can be maintained at doses adequate to suppress somatic responses to painful procedures. The large inter-individual variation in respiratory depressant effects necessitates individualized dose titration. The drug dose is more linearly related to variation in the respiratory rhythm and respiratory rate than to minute volume or end-tidal carbon dioxide. Apneic episodes are less likely when respiratory depressant drugs are administered slowly, as this allows time for the end-tidal carbon dioxide level to rise to a new apneic threshold. Hypnotic anesthetics and opioid analgesics act synergistically to cause respiratory depression and suppression of the somatic response. SUMMARY Spontaneous respiration can be maintained when anesthetizing children using intravenous anesthesia.
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Mitsis GD, Governo RJM, Rogers R, Pattinson KTS. The effect of remifentanil on respiratory variability, evaluated with dynamic modeling. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2009; 106:1038-49. [PMID: 19196914 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.90769.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Opioid drugs disrupt signaling in the brain stem respiratory network affecting respiratory rhythm. We evaluated the influence of a steady-state infusion of a model opioid, remifentanil, on respiratory variability during spontaneous respiration in a group of 11 healthy human volunteers. We used dynamic linear and nonlinear models to examine the effects of remifentanil on both directions of the ventilatory loop, i.e., on the influence of natural variations in end-tidal carbon dioxide (Pet(CO(2))) on ventilatory variability, which was assessed by tidal volume (Vt) and breath-to-breath ventilation (i.e., the ratio of tidal volume over total breath time Vt/Ttot), and vice versa. Breath-by-breath recordings of expired CO(2) and respiration were made during a target-controlled infusion of remifentanil for 15 min at estimated effect site (i.e., brain tissue) concentrations of 0, 0.7, 1.1, and 1.5 ng/ml, respectively. Remifentanil caused a profound increase in the duration of expiration. The obtained models revealed a decrease in the strength of the dynamic effect of Pet(CO(2)) variability on Vt (the "controller" part of the ventilatory loop) and a more pronounced increase in the effect of Vt variability on Pet(CO(2)) (the "plant" part of the loop). Nonlinear models explained these dynamic interrelationships better than linear models. Our approach allows detailed investigation of drug effects in the resting state at the systems level using noninvasive and minimally perturbing experimental protocols, which can closely represent real-life clinical situations.
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- G D Mitsis
- Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
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Diving-related pulmonary effects are due mostly to increased gas density, immersion-related increase in pulmonary blood volume, and (usually) a higher inspired Po2. Higher gas density produces an increase in airways resistance and work of breathing, and a reduced maximum breathing capacity. An additional mechanical load is due to immersion, which can impose a static transrespiratory pressure load as well as a decrease in pulmonary compliance. The combination of resistive and elastic loads is largely responsible for the reduction in ventilation during underwater exercise. Additionally, there is a density-related increase in dead space/tidal volume ratio (Vd/Vt), possibly due to impairment of intrapulmonary gas phase diffusion and distribution of ventilation. The net result of relative hypoventilation and increased Vd/Vt is hypercapnia. The effect of high inspired Po2and inert gas narcosis on respiratory drive appear to be minimal. Exchange of oxygen by the lung is not impaired, at least up to a gas density of 25 g/l. There are few effects of pressure per se, other than a reduction in the P50 of hemoglobin, probably due to either a conformational change or an effect of inert gas binding.
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Day TA, Wilson RJA. A negative interaction between brainstem and peripheral respiratory chemoreceptors modulates peripheral chemoreflex magnitude. J Physiol 2008; 587:883-96. [PMID: 19103684 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.160689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Interaction between central (brainstem) and peripheral (carotid body) respiratory chemosensitivity is vital to protect blood gases against potentially deleterious fluctuations, especially during sleep. Previously, using an in situ arterially perfused, vagotomized, decerebrate preparation in which brainstem and peripheral chemoreceptors are perfused separately (i.e. dual perfused preparation; DPP), we observed that the phrenic response to specific carotid body hypoxia was larger when the brainstem was held at 25 Torr P(CO(2)) compared to 50 Torr P(CO(2)). This suggests a negative (i.e. hypo-additive) interaction between chemoreceptors. The current study was designed to (a) determine whether this observation could be generalized to all carotid body stimuli, and (b) exclude the possibility that the hypo-additive response was the simple consequence of ventilatory saturation at high brainstem P(CO(2)). Specifically, we tested how steady-state brainstem P(CO(2)) modulates peripheral chemoreflex magnitude in response to carotid body P(CO(2)) and P(O(2)) perturbations, both above and below eupnoeic levels. We found that the peripheral chemoreflex was more responsive the lower the brainstem P(CO(2)) regardless of whether the peripheral chemoreceptors received stimuli which increased or decreased activation. These findings demonstrate a negative interaction between brainstem and peripheral chemosensitivity in the rat in the absence of ventilatory saturation. We suggest that a negative interaction in humans may contribute to increased controller gain associated with sleep-related breathing disorders and propose that the assumption of simple addition between chemoreceptor inputs used in current models of the respiratory control system be reconsidered.
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- Trevor A Day
- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Ventilatory and cerebrovascular responses to hypercapnia in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea: effect of CPAP therapy. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2008; 165:73-81. [PMID: 18996501 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2008.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2008] [Revised: 10/10/2008] [Accepted: 10/13/2008] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to assess whether the cerebrovascular response to hypercapnia is blunted in OSA patients and if this could alter the ventilatory response to hypercapnia before and after CPAP therapy. We measured the cerebrovascular, cardiovascular and ventilatory responses to hypercapnia in 8 patients with OSA (apnoea-hypopnoea index=101+/-10) before and after 4-6 weeks of CPAP therapy and in 10 control subjects who did not undergo CPAP therapy. The cerebrovascular and ventilatory responses to hypercapnia were not different between OSA and controls at baseline or follow-up. The cardiovascular response to hypercapnia was significantly increased in the OSA group by CPAP therapy (mean arterial pressure response: 1.30+/-0.16 vs. 2.04+/-0.36 mmHg Torr(-1); p=0.007). We conclude that in normocapnic, normotensive OSA patients without cardiovascular disease, the ventilatory, cerebrovascular, and cardiovascular responses to hypercapnia are normal, but the cardiovascular response to hypercapnia is heightened following 1 month of CPAP therapy.
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Cherry AD, Forkner IF, Frederick HJ, Natoli MJ, Schinazi EA, Longphre JP, Conard JL, White WD, Freiberger JJ, Stolp BW, Pollock NW, Doar PO, Boso AE, Alford EL, Walker AJ, Ma AC, Rhodes MA, Moon RE. Predictors of increased PaCO2 during immersed prone exercise at 4.7 ATA. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2008; 106:316-25. [PMID: 18787095 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00885.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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During diving, arterial Pco(2) (Pa(CO(2))) levels can increase and contribute to psychomotor impairment and unconsciousness. This study was designed to investigate the effects of the hypercapnic ventilatory response (HCVR), exercise, inspired Po(2), and externally applied transrespiratory pressure (P(tr)) on Pa(CO(2)) during immersed prone exercise in subjects breathing oxygen-nitrogen mixes at 4.7 ATA. Twenty-five subjects were studied at rest and during 6 min of exercise while dry and submersed at 1 ATA and during exercise submersed at 4.7 ATA. At 4.7 ATA, subsets of the 25 subjects (9-10 for each condition) exercised as P(tr) was varied between +10, 0, and -10 cmH(2)O; breathing gas Po(2) was 0.7, 1.0, and 1.3 ATA; and inspiratory and expiratory breathing resistances were varied using 14.9-, 11.6-, and 10.2-mm-diameter-aperture disks. During exercise, Pa(CO(2)) (Torr) increased from 31.5 +/- 4.1 (mean +/- SD for all subjects) dry to 34.2 +/- 4.8 (P = 0.02) submersed, to 46.1 +/- 5.9 (P < 0.001) at 4.7 ATA during air breathing and to 49.9 +/- 5.4 (P < 0.001 vs. 1 ATA) during breathing with high external resistance. There was no significant effect of inspired Po(2) or P(tr) on Pa(CO(2)) or minute ventilation (Ve). Ve (l/min) decreased from 89.2 +/- 22.9 dry to 76.3 +/- 20.5 (P = 0.02) submersed, to 61.6 +/- 13.9 (P < 0.001) at 4.7 ATA during air breathing and to 49.2 +/- 7.3 (P < 0.001) during breathing with resistance. We conclude that the major contributors to increased Pa(CO(2)) during exercise at 4.7 ATA are increased depth and external respiratory resistance. HCVR and maximal O(2) consumption were also weakly predictive. The effects of P(tr), inspired Po(2), and O(2) consumption during short-term exercise were not significant.
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- A D Cherry
- Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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A Negative Interaction Between Central and Peripheral Respiratory Chemoreceptors May Underlie Sleep-Induced Respiratory Instability: A Novel Hypothesis. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73693-8_78] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Plasticity in the Brain: Influence of Bilateral Carotid Body Resection (bCBR) on Central CO2 Sensitivity. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73693-8_54] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Haouzi P, Chenuel B, Whipp BJ. Control of breathing during cortical substitution of the spontaneous automatic respiratory rhythm. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2007; 159:211-8. [PMID: 17869591 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2007.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2007] [Revised: 07/23/2007] [Accepted: 07/23/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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This study addresses the following question: does the ventilatory control system adjust total ventilation in accord with the regulatory demands of the physiological dead space ventilation (VD) when the breathing frequency changes, and if so, how? A simple proportionality between the amplitude of the respiratory motor output (VT) and the respiratory period (TTOT) during such changes will not provide for regulation of arterial (PaCO2); the relationship requires a positive intercept of magnitude VD, i.e. VT=VATTOT+VD. We therefore determined the relationship between VT and TTOT when breathing frequency was changed in a ramp-like manner (from 6 to 20 cycles/min), in an imperceptible manner, during a paced-breathing protocol in which the subjects voluntarily triggered the breath onset, thereby imposing a rhythm different from the one spontaneously generated by the automatic central pattern generators (CPGs). While the resulting breath magnitude was strongly correlated to the breath duration (slope: 6.50+/-2.91 l/min) there was, in all cases, a statistically significant positive intercept on the VT axis (238+/-112 ml) leading to a relationship of the form: VT=VATTOT+VD. Consequently, the ventilatory output changed as a function of the breathing frequency-induced dead space ventilation changes, maintaining end-tidal PCO2 (PETCO2) constant. These results are consistent with a centrally set program for generating regulatory combinations of respiratory cycle durations and magnitudes that "take into account" the f-induced variation of dead space ventilation. This appears not to be dependent on the structures producing the respiratory rhythm (cortex versus central pattern generators). It is suggested that, during volitional control of breathing rhythm, the signal used for adjusting the magnitude to the timing of the ventilatory output is derived from information contained in the duration of preceding expiration.
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- Philippe Haouzi
- Laboratoire de Physiologie, Faculté de Médecine de Nancy, EA 3450, Université H. Poincaré, France.
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Brugniaux JV, Hodges ANH, Hanly PJ, Poulin MJ. Cerebrovascular responses to altitude. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2007; 158:212-23. [PMID: 17544954 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2007.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2007] [Revised: 04/17/2007] [Accepted: 04/19/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The regulation of cerebral blood flow (CBF) is a complex process that is altered significantly with altitude exposure. Acute exposure produces a marked increase in CBF, in proportion to the severity of the hypoxia and mitigated by hyperventilation-induced hypocapnia when CO(2) is uncontrolled. A number of mediators contribute to the hypoxia-induced cerebral vasodilation, including adenosine, potassium channels, substance P, prostaglandins, and NO. Upon acclimatization to altitude, CBF returns towards normal sea-level values in subsequent days and weeks, mediated by a progressive increase in PO2, first through hyperventilation followed by erythropoiesis. With long-term altitude exposure, a number of mechanisms play a role in regulating CBF, including acid-base balance, hematological modifications, and angiogenesis. Finally, several cerebrovascular disorders are associated with altitude exposure. Existing gaps in our knowledge of CBF and altitude, and areas of future investigation include effects of longer exposures, intermittent hypoxia, and gender differences in the CBF responses to altitude.
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- Julien V Brugniaux
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
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Dahan A, Nieuwenhuijs D, Teppema L. Plasticity of central chemoreceptors: effect of bilateral carotid body resection on central CO2 sensitivity. PLoS Med 2007; 4:e239. [PMID: 17676946 PMCID: PMC1925127 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2007] [Accepted: 06/11/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Human breathing is regulated by feedback and feed-forward control mechanisms, allowing a strict matching between metabolic needs and the uptake of oxygen in the lungs. The most important control mechanism, the metabolic ventilatory control system, is fine-tuned by two sets of chemoreceptors, the peripheral chemoreceptors in the carotid bodies (located in the bifurcation of the common carotid arteries) and the central CO2 chemoreceptors in the ventral medulla. Animal data indicate that resection of the carotid bodies results, apart from the loss of the peripheral chemoreceptors, in reduced activity of the central CO2 sensors. We assessed the acute and chronic effect of carotid body resection in three humans who underwent bilateral carotid body resection (bCBR) after developing carotid body tumors. METHODS AND FINDINGS The three patients (two men, one woman) were suffering from a hereditary form of carotid body tumors. They were studied prior to surgery and at regular intervals for 2-4 y following bCBR. We obtained inspired minute ventilation (Vi) responses to hypoxia and CO2. The Vi-CO2 responses were separated into a peripheral (fast) response and a central (slow) response with a two-compartment model of the ventilatory control system. Following surgery the ventilatory CO2 sensitivity of the peripheral chemoreceptors and the hypoxic responses were not different from zero or below 10% of preoperative values. The ventilatory CO2 sensitivity of the central chemoreceptors decreased by about 75% after surgery, with peak reduction occurring between 3 and 6 mo postoperatively. This was followed by a slow return to values close to preoperative values within 2 y. During this slow return, the Vi-CO2 response shifted slowly to the right by about 8 mm Hg. CONCLUSIONS The reduction in central Vi-CO2 sensitivity after the loss of the carotid bodies suggests that the carotid bodies exert a tonic drive or tonic facilitation on the output of the central chemoreceptors that is lost upon their resection. The observed return of the central CO2 sensitivity is clear evidence for central plasticity within the ventilatory control system. Our data, although of limited sample size, indicate that the response mechanisms of the ventilatory control system are not static but depend on afferent input and exhibit a large degree of restoration or plasticity. In addition, the permanent absence of the breathing response to hypoxia after bCBR may aggravate the pathological consequences of sleep-disordered breathing.
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- Albert Dahan
- Department of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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León-Velarde F, Richalet JP. Respiratory control in residents at high altitude: physiology and pathophysiology. High Alt Med Biol 2006; 7:125-37. [PMID: 16764526 DOI: 10.1089/ham.2006.7.125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Highland population (HA) from the Andes, living above 3000 m, have a blunted ventilatory response to increasing hypoxia, breathe less compared to acclimatized newcomers, but more, compared to sea-level natives at sea level. Subjects with chronic mountain sickness (CMS) breathe like sea-level natives and have excessive erythrocytosis (EE). The respiratory stimulation that arises through the peripheral chemoreflex is modestly less in the CMS group when compared with the HA group at the same P(ET(O2)). With regard to CO(2) sensitivity, CMS subjects seem to have reset their central CO(2) chemoreceptors to operate around the sea-level resting P(ET(CO2)). Acetazolamide, an acidifying drug that increases the chemosensitivity of regions in the brain stem that contain CO(2)/H(+) sensitive neurons, partially reverses this phenomenon, thus, providing CMS subjects with the possibility to have high CO(2) changes, despite small changes in ventilation. However, the same type of adjustments of the breathing pattern established for Andeans has not been found necessarily in Asian humans and/or domestic animals nor in the various high altitude species studied. The differing time frames of exposure to hypoxia among the populations, as well as the reversibility of the different components of the respiratory process at sea level, provide key concepts concerning the importance of time at high altitude in the evolution of an appropriate breathing pattern.
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- Fabiola León-Velarde
- Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Fisiológicas, Facultad de Ciencius Filosafia, Laboratorio de Transporte de Oxígeno, Lima, Perú.
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Day TA, Wilson RJA. Brainstem PCO2 modulates phrenic responses to specific carotid body hypoxia in an in situ dual perfused rat preparation. J Physiol 2006; 578:843-57. [PMID: 17082232 PMCID: PMC2151337 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.119594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Inputs from central (brainstem) and peripheral (carotid body) respiratory chemoreceptors are coordinated to protect blood gases against potentially deleterious fluctuations. However, the mathematics of the steady-state interaction between chemoreceptors has been difficult to ascertain. Further, how this interaction affects time-dependent phenomena (in which chemoresponses depend upon previous experience) is largely unknown. To determine how central P(CO2) modulates the response to peripheral chemostimulation in the rat, we utilized an in situ arterially perfused, vagotomized, decerebrate preparation, in which central and peripheral chemoreceptors were perfused separately (i.e. dual perfused preparation (DPP)). We carried out two sets of experiments: in Experiment 1, we alternated steady-state brainstem P(CO2) between 25 and 50 Torr in each preparation, and applied specific carotid body hypoxia (60 Torr P(O2) and 40 Torr P(CO2)) under both conditions; in Experiment 2, we applied four 5 min bouts (separated by 5 min) of specific carotid body hypoxia (60 Torr P(O2) and 40 Torr P(CO2)) while holding the brainstem at either 30 Torr or 50 Torr P(CO2). We demonstrate that the level of brainstem P(CO2) modulates (a) the magnitude of the phrenic responses to a single step of specific carotid body hypoxia and (b) the magnitude of time-dependent phenomena. We report that the interaction between chemoreceptors is negative (i.e. hypo-additive), whereby a lower brainstem P(CO2) augments phrenic responses resulting from specific carotid body hypoxia. A negative interaction may underlie the pathophysiology of central sleep apnoea in populations that are chronically hypocapnic.
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- Trevor A Day
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
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Aittokallio T, Gyllenberg M, Polo O, Toivonen J, Virkki A. Model-Based Analysis of Mechanisms Responsible for Sleep-Induced Carbon Dioxide Differences. Bull Math Biol 2006; 68:315-41. [PMID: 16794933 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-005-9059-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This work describes a comprehensive mathematical model of the human respiratory control system which incorporates the central mechanisms for predicting sleep-induced changes in chemical regulation of ventilation. The model integrates four individual compartments for gas storage and exchange, namely alveolar air, pulmonary blood, tissue capillary blood, body tissues, and gas transport between them. An essential mechanism in the carbon dioxide transport is its dissociation into bicarbonate and acid, where a buffering mechanism through hemoglobin is used to prevent harmfully low pH levels. In the current model, we assume high oxygen levels and consider intracellular hydrogen ion concentration as the principal respiratory control variable. The resulting system of delayed differential equations is solved numerically. With an appropriate choice of key parameters, such as velocity of blood flow and gain of a non-linear controller function, the model provides steady-state results consistent with our experimental observations measured in subjects across sleep onset. Dynamic predictions from the model give new insights into the behaviour of the system in subjects with different buffering capacities and suggest novel hypotheses for future experimental and clinical studies.
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- T Aittokallio
- Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, FIN-20014, Turku, and Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Finland
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Pandit JJ. Effect of low dose inhaled anaesthetic agents on the ventilatory response to carbon dioxide in humans: a quantitative review. Anaesthesia 2005; 60:461-9. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2004.04088.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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