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Toledo C, Ortolani D, Ortiz FC, Marcus NJ, Del Rio R. Potential Role of the Retrotrapezoid Nucleus in Mediating Cardio-Respiratory Dysfunction in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. Front Physiol 2022; 13:863963. [PMID: 35492622 PMCID: PMC9039230 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.863963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
Abstract
A strong association between chemoreflex hypersensitivity, disordered breathing, and elevated sympathetic activity has been shown in experimental and human heart failure (HF). The contribution of chemoreflex hypersensitivity in HF pathophysiology is incompletely understood. There is ample evidence that increased peripheral chemoreflex drive in HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF; EF<40%) leads to pathophysiological changes in autonomic and cardio-respiratory control, but less is known about the neural mechanisms mediating cardio-respiratory disturbances in HF with preserved EF (HFpEF; EF>50%). Importantly, it has been shown that activation of the central chemoreflex worsens autonomic dysfunction in experimental HFpEF, an effect mediated in part by the activation of C1 catecholaminergic neurons neighboring the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN), an important region for central chemoreflex control of respiratory and autonomic function. Accordingly, the main purpose of this brief review is to discuss the possible role played by activation of central chemoreflex pathways on autonomic function and its potential role in precipitating disordered breathing in HFpEF. Improving understanding of the contribution of the central chemoreflex to the pathophysiology of HFpEF may help in development of novel interventions intended to improve cardio-respiratory outcomes in HFpEF.
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- Camilo Toledo
- Laboratory Cardiorespiratory Control, Department of Physiology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Centro de Excelencia en Biomedicina de Magallanes (CEBIMA), Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile
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- Laboratory Cardiorespiratory Control, Department of Physiology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Mechanisms of Myelin Formation and Repair Laboratory, Facultad de Ciencias de Salud, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA, United States
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- Laboratory Cardiorespiratory Control, Department of Physiology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Centro de Excelencia en Biomedicina de Magallanes (CEBIMA), Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile
- Centro de Envejecimiento y Regeneración (CARE), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- *Correspondence: Rodrigo Del Rio,
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Sevoz-Couche C, Laborde S. Heart rate variability and slow-paced breathing:when coherence meets resonance. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2022; 135:104576. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Revised: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Brain PCO2 is sensed primarily via changes in [H+]. Small pH changes are detected in the medulla oblongata and trigger breathing adjustments that help maintain arterial PCO2 constant. Larger perturbations of brain CO2/H+, possibly also sensed elsewhere in the CNS, elicit arousal, dyspnea, and stress, and cause additional breathing modifications. The retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN), a rostral medullary cluster of glutamatergic neurons identified by coexpression of Phoxb and Nmb transcripts, is the lynchpin of the central respiratory chemoreflex. RTN regulates breathing frequency, inspiratory amplitude, and active expiration. It is exquisitely responsive to acidosis in vivo and maintains breathing autorhythmicity during quiet waking, slow-wave sleep, and anesthesia. The RTN response to [H+] is partly an intrinsic neuronal property mediated by proton sensors TASK-2 and GPR4 and partly a paracrine effect mediated by astrocytes and the vasculature. The RTN also receives myriad excitatory or inhibitory synaptic inputs including from [H+]-responsive neurons (e.g., serotonergic). RTN is silenced by moderate hypoxia. RTN inactivity (periodic or sustained) contributes to periodic breathing and, likely, to central sleep apnea. RTN development relies on transcription factors Egr2, Phox2b, Lbx1, and Atoh1. PHOX2B mutations cause congenital central hypoventilation syndrome; they impair RTN development and consequently the central respiratory chemoreflex.
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- Patrice G Guyenet
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States.
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
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The clinical term dyspnea (a.k.a. breathlessness or shortness of breath) encompasses at least three qualitatively distinct sensations that warn of threats to breathing: air hunger, effort to breathe, and chest tightness. Air hunger is a primal homeostatic warning signal of insufficient alveolar ventilation that can produce fear and anxiety and severely impacts the lives of patients with cardiopulmonary, neuromuscular, psychological, and end-stage disease. The sense of effort to breathe informs of increased respiratory muscle activity and warns of potential impediments to breathing. Most frequently associated with bronchoconstriction, chest tightness may warn of airway inflammation and constriction through activation of airway sensory nerves. This chapter reviews human and functional brain imaging studies with comparison to pertinent neurorespiratory studies in animals to propose the interoceptive networks underlying each sensation. The neural origins of their distinct sensory and affective dimensions are discussed, and areas for future research are proposed. Despite dyspnea's clinical prevalence and impact, management of dyspnea languishes decades behind the treatment of pain. The neurophysiological bases of current therapeutic approaches are reviewed; however, a better understanding of the neural mechanisms of dyspnea may lead to development of novel therapies and improved patient care.
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- Andrew P Binks
- Department of Basic Science Education, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA, United States; Faculty of Health Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States.
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Guyenet PG, Stornetta RL. Rostral ventrolateral medulla, retropontine region and autonomic regulations. Auton Neurosci 2021; 237:102922. [PMID: 34814098 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2021.102922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Revised: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The rostral half of the ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) and adjacent ventrolateral retropontine region (henceforth RVLMRP) have been divided into various sectors by neuroscientists interested in breathing or autonomic regulations. The RVLMRP regulates respiration, glycemia, vigilance and inflammation, in addition to blood pressure. It contains interoceptors that respond to acidification, hypoxia and intracranial pressure and its rostral end contains the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) which is the main central respiratory chemoreceptor. Acid detection by the RTN is an intrinsic property of the principal neurons that is enhanced by paracrine influences from surrounding astrocytes and CO2-dependent vascular constriction. RTN mediates the hypercapnic ventilatory response via complex projections to the respiratory pattern generator (CPG). The RVLM contributes to autonomic response patterns via differential recruitment of several subtypes of adrenergic (C1) and non-adrenergic neurons that directly innervate sympathetic and parasympathetic preganglionic neurons. The RVLM also innervates many brainstem and hypothalamic nuclei that contribute, albeit less directly, to autonomic responses. All lower brainstem noradrenergic clusters including the locus coeruleus are among these targets. Sympathetic tone to the circulatory system is regulated by subsets of presympathetic RVLM neurons whose activity is continuously restrained by the baroreceptors and modulated by the respiratory CPG. The inhibitory input from baroreceptors and the excitatory input from the respiratory CPG originate from neurons located in or close to the rhythm generating region of the respiratory CPG (preBötzinger complex).
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- Patrice G Guyenet
- University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, 1340 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0735, USA.
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- University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, 1340 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0735, USA.
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Yu H, Shi L, Chen J, Jun S, Hao Y, Wang S, Fu C, Zhang X, Lu H, Wang S, Yuan F. A Neural Circuit Mechanism Controlling Breathing by Leptin in the Nucleus Tractus Solitarii. Neurosci Bull 2021; 38:149-165. [PMID: 34212297 PMCID: PMC8821766 DOI: 10.1007/s12264-021-00742-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Leptin, an adipocyte-derived peptide hormone, has been shown to facilitate breathing. However, the central sites and circuit mechanisms underlying the respiratory effects of leptin remain incompletely understood. The present study aimed to address whether neurons expressing leptin receptor b (LepRb) in the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) contribute to respiratory control. Both chemogenetic and optogenetic stimulation of LepRb-expressing NTS (NTSLepRb) neurons notably activated breathing. Moreover, stimulation of NTSLepRb neurons projecting to the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) not only remarkably increased basal ventilation to a level similar to that of the stimulation of all NTSLepRb neurons, but also activated LPBN neurons projecting to the preBötzinger complex (preBötC). By contrast, ablation of NTSLepRb neurons projecting to the LPBN notably eliminated the enhanced respiratory effect induced by NTSLepRb neuron stimulation. In brainstem slices, bath application of leptin rapidly depolarized the membrane potential, increased the spontaneous firing rate, and accelerated the Ca2+ transients in most NTSLepRb neurons. Therefore, leptin potentiates breathing in the NTS most likely via an NTS-LPBN-preBötC circuit.
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- Hongxiao Yu
- grid.256883.20000 0004 1760 8442Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050017 Hebei China
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- grid.256883.20000 0004 1760 8442Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050017 Hebei China
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- grid.256883.20000 0004 1760 8442Core Facilities and Centers, Institute of Medicine and Health, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050017 Hebei China
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- grid.256883.20000 0004 1760 8442Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050017 Hebei China
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- grid.256883.20000 0004 1760 8442Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050017 Hebei China
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- grid.256883.20000 0004 1760 8442Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050017 Hebei China
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- grid.256883.20000 0004 1760 8442School of Nursing, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050000 Hebei China
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- grid.256883.20000 0004 1760 8442Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050017 Hebei China
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- grid.256883.20000 0004 1760 8442Department of Orthodontics, College of Stomatology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050017 Hebei China
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- grid.256883.20000 0004 1760 8442Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050017 Hebei China ,Hebei Key Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Shijiazhuang, 050017 Hebei China
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- grid.256883.20000 0004 1760 8442Department of Physiology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050017 Hebei China ,Hebei Key Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Shijiazhuang, 050017 Hebei China
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Cleary CM, Milla BM, Kuo FS, James S, Flynn WF, Robson P, Mulkey DK. Somatostatin-expressing parafacial neurons are CO 2/H + sensitive and regulate baseline breathing. eLife 2021; 10:e60317. [PMID: 34013884 PMCID: PMC8169115 DOI: 10.7554/elife.60317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Glutamatergic neurons in the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) function as respiratory chemoreceptors by regulating breathing in response to tissue CO2/H+. The RTN and greater parafacial region may also function as a chemosensing network composed of CO2/H+-sensitive excitatory and inhibitory synaptic interactions. In the context of disease, we showed that loss of inhibitory neural activity in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome disinhibited RTN chemoreceptors and destabilized breathing (Kuo et al., 2019). Despite this, contributions of parafacial inhibitory neurons to control of breathing are unknown, and synaptic properties of RTN neurons have not been characterized. Here, we show the parafacial region contains a limited diversity of inhibitory neurons including somatostatin (Sst)-, parvalbumin (Pvalb)-, and cholecystokinin (Cck)-expressing neurons. Of these, Sst-expressing interneurons appear uniquely inhibited by CO2/H+. We also show RTN chemoreceptors receive inhibitory input that is withdrawn in a CO2/H+-dependent manner, and chemogenetic suppression of Sst+ parafacial neurons, but not Pvalb+ or Cck+ neurons, increases baseline breathing. These results suggest Sst-expressing parafacial neurons contribute to RTN chemoreception and respiratory activity.
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- Colin M Cleary
- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of ConnecticutStorrsUnited States
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- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of ConnecticutStorrsUnited States
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- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of ConnecticutStorrsUnited States
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- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of ConnecticutStorrsUnited States
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- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic MedicineFarmingtonUnited States
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- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic MedicineFarmingtonUnited States
- Institute for Systems Genomics, University of ConnecticutFarmingtonUnited States
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- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of ConnecticutStorrsUnited States
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Abbott SBG, Souza GMPR. Chemoreceptor mechanisms regulating CO 2 -induced arousal from sleep. J Physiol 2021; 599:2559-2571. [PMID: 33759184 DOI: 10.1113/jp281305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Arousal from sleep in response to CO2 is a life-preserving reflex that enhances ventilatory drive and facilitates behavioural adaptations to restore eupnoeic breathing. Recurrent activation of the CO2 -arousal reflex is associated with sleep disruption in obstructive sleep apnoea. In this review we examine the role of chemoreceptors in the carotid bodies, the retrotrapezoid nucleus and serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe in the CO2 -arousal reflex. We also provide an overview of the supra-medullary structures that mediate CO2 -induced arousal. We propose a framework for the CO2 -arousal reflex in which the activity of the chemoreceptors converges in the parabrachial nucleus to trigger cortical arousal.
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- Stephen B G Abbott
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 29903, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 29903, USA
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Differential Contribution of the Retrotrapezoid Nucleus and C1 Neurons to Active Expiration and Arousal in Rats. J Neurosci 2020; 40:8683-8697. [PMID: 32973046 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1006-20.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2020] [Revised: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Collectively, the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) and adjacent C1 neurons regulate breathing, circulation and the state of vigilance, but previous methods to manipulate the activity of these neurons have been insufficiently selective to parse out their relative roles. We hypothesize that RTN and C1 neurons regulate distinct aspects of breathing (e.g., frequency, amplitude, active expiration, sighing) and differ in their ability to produce arousal from sleep. Here we use optogenetics and a combination of viral vectors in adult male and female Th-Cre rats to transduce selectively RTN (Phox2b+ /Nmb +) or C1 neurons (Phox2b+/Th +) with Channelrhodopsin-2. RTN photostimulation modestly increased the probability of arousal. RTN stimulation robustly increased breathing frequency and amplitude; it also triggered strong active expiration but not sighs. Consistent with these responses, RTN innervates the entire pontomedullary respiratory network, including expiratory premotor neurons in the caudal ventral respiratory group, but RTN has very limited projections to brainstem regions that regulate arousal (locus ceruleus, CGRP+ parabrachial neurons). C1 neuron stimulation produced robust arousals and similar increases in breathing frequency and amplitude compared with RTN stimulation, but sighs were elicited and active expiration was absent. Unlike RTN, C1 neurons innervate the locus ceruleus, CGRP+ processes within the parabrachial complex, and lack projections to caudal ventral respiratory group. In sum, stimulating C1 or RTN activates breathing robustly, but only RTN neuron stimulation produces active expiration, consistent with their role as central respiratory chemoreceptors. Conversely, C1 stimulation strongly stimulates ascending arousal systems and sighs, consistent with their postulated role in acute stress responses.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The C1 neurons and the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) reside in the rostral ventrolateral medulla. Both regulate breathing and the cardiovascular system but in ways that are unclear because of technical limitations (anesthesia, nonselective neuronal actuators). Using optogenetics in unanesthetized rats, we found that selective stimulation of either RTN or C1 neurons activates breathing. However, only RTN triggers active expiration, presumably because RTN, unlike C1, has direct excitatory projections to abdominal premotor neurons. The arousal potential of the C1 neurons is far greater than that of the RTN, however, consistent with C1's projections to brainstem wake-promoting structures. In short, C1 neurons orchestrate cardiorespiratory and arousal responses to somatic stresses, whereas RTN selectively controls lung ventilation and arterial Pco2 stability.
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Schünemann HJ, Khabsa J, Solo K, Khamis AM, Brignardello-Petersen R, El-Harakeh A, Darzi A, Hajizadeh A, Bognanni A, Bak A, Izcovich A, Cuello-Garcia CA, Chen C, Borowiack E, Chamseddine F, Schünemann F, Morgano GP, Muti-Schünemann GEU, Chen G, Zhao H, Neumann I, Brozek J, Schmidt J, Hneiny L, Harrison L, Reinap M, Junek M, Santesso N, El-Khoury R, Thomas R, Nieuwlaat R, Stalteri R, Yaacoub S, Lotfi T, Baldeh T, Piggott T, Zhang Y, Saad Z, Rochwerg B, Perri D, Fan E, Stehling F, Akl IB, Loeb M, Garner P, Aston S, Alhazzani W, Szczeklik W, Chu DK, Akl EA. Ventilation Techniques and Risk for Transmission of Coronavirus Disease, Including COVID-19: A Living Systematic Review of Multiple Streams of Evidence. Ann Intern Med 2020; 173:204-216. [PMID: 32442035 PMCID: PMC7281716 DOI: 10.7326/m20-2306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Mechanical ventilation is used to treat respiratory failure in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). PURPOSE To review multiple streams of evidence regarding the benefits and harms of ventilation techniques for coronavirus infections, including that causing COVID-19. DATA SOURCES 21 standard, World Health Organization-specific and COVID-19-specific databases, without language restrictions, until 1 May 2020. STUDY SELECTION Studies of any design and language comparing different oxygenation approaches in patients with coronavirus infections, including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), or with hypoxemic respiratory failure. Animal, mechanistic, laboratory, and preclinical evidence was gathered regarding aerosol dispersion of coronavirus. Studies evaluating risk for virus transmission to health care workers from aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) were included. DATA EXTRACTION Independent and duplicate screening, data abstraction, and risk-of-bias assessment (GRADE for certainty of evidence and AMSTAR 2 for included systematic reviews). DATA SYNTHESIS 123 studies were eligible (45 on COVID-19, 70 on SARS, 8 on MERS), but only 5 studies (1 on COVID-19, 3 on SARS, 1 on MERS) adjusted for important confounders. A study in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 reported slightly higher mortality with noninvasive ventilation (NIV) than with invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), but 2 opposing studies, 1 in patients with MERS and 1 in patients with SARS, suggest a reduction in mortality with NIV (very-low-certainty evidence). Two studies in patients with SARS report a reduction in mortality with NIV compared with no mechanical ventilation (low-certainty evidence). Two systematic reviews suggest a large reduction in mortality with NIV compared with conventional oxygen therapy. Other included studies suggest increased odds of transmission from AGPs. LIMITATION Direct studies in COVID-19 are limited and poorly reported. CONCLUSION Indirect and low-certainty evidence suggests that use of NIV, similar to IMV, probably reduces mortality but may increase the risk for transmission of COVID-19 to health care workers. PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE World Health Organization. (PROSPERO: CRD42020178187).
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- Holger J Schünemann
- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon (J.K., A.E., F.C., L.H., R.E., S.Y., Z.S., I.B.A., E.A.A.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon (J.K., A.E., F.C., L.H., R.E., S.Y., Z.S., I.B.A., E.A.A.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- Evidence Prime, Krakow, Poland (A.B., E.B.)
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- German Hospital of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (A.I.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China (C.C.)
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- American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon (J.K., A.E., F.C., L.H., R.E., S.Y., Z.S., I.B.A., E.A.A.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China (G.C.)
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- Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China (H.Z.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (I.N.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon (J.K., A.E., F.C., L.H., R.E., S.Y., Z.S., I.B.A., E.A.A.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London United Kingdom (M.R.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon (J.K., A.E., F.C., L.H., R.E., S.Y., Z.S., I.B.A., E.A.A.)
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- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom (R.T., P.G.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon (J.K., A.E., F.C., L.H., R.E., S.Y., Z.S., I.B.A., E.A.A.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon (J.K., A.E., F.C., L.H., R.E., S.Y., Z.S., I.B.A., E.A.A.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (E.F.)
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- American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon (J.K., A.E., F.C., L.H., R.E., S.Y., Z.S., I.B.A., E.A.A.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom (R.T., P.G.)
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- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom (S.A.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S., K.S., R.B., A.D., A.H., A.B., C.A.C., F.S., G.P.M., J.B., J.S., L.H., M.J., N.S., R.N., R.S., T.L., T.B., T.P., Y.Z., B.R., D.P., M.L., W.A., D.K.C.)
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- American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon (J.K., A.E., F.C., L.H., R.E., S.Y., Z.S., I.B.A., E.A.A.)
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Spinelli E, Mauri T, Beitler JR, Pesenti A, Brodie D. Respiratory drive in the acute respiratory distress syndrome: pathophysiology, monitoring, and therapeutic interventions. Intensive Care Med 2020; 46:606-618. [PMID: 32016537 PMCID: PMC7224136 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-020-05942-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Neural respiratory drive, i.e., the activity of respiratory centres controlling breathing, is an overlooked physiologic variable which affects the pathophysiology and the clinical outcome of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Spontaneous breathing may offer multiple physiologic benefits in these patients, including decreased need for sedation, preserved diaphragm activity and improved cardiovascular function. However, excessive effort to breathe due to high respiratory drive may lead to patient self-inflicted lung injury (P-SILI), even in the absence of mechanical ventilation. In the present review, we focus on the physiological and clinical implications of control of respiratory drive in ARDS patients. We summarize the main determinants of neural respiratory drive and the mechanisms involved in its potentiation, in health and ARDS. We also describe potential and pitfalls of the available bedside methods for drive assessment and explore classical and more “futuristic” interventions to control drive in ARDS patients.
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- Elena Spinelli
- Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione ed Emergenza-Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università Degli Studi Di Milano, Via F. Sforza 35, 20122, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione ed Emergenza-Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università Degli Studi Di Milano, Via F. Sforza 35, 20122, Milan, Italy. .,Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
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- Center for Acute Respiratory Failure, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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- Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione ed Emergenza-Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università Degli Studi Di Milano, Via F. Sforza 35, 20122, Milan, Italy.,Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Center for Acute Respiratory Failure, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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Tobushi T, Kadokami T, Takagawa J, Dohi K, Joho S, Wada O, Momomura SI, Koyama T, Haruki N, Ando SI, Asanoi H. Blood Oxygen, Sleep Disordered Breathing, and Respiratory Instability in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure - PROST Subanalysis. Circ Rep 2019; 1:414-421. [PMID: 33693078 PMCID: PMC7897548 DOI: 10.1253/circrep.cr-19-0068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Background:
Respiratory stability index (RSI), a semi-quantitative measure of respiratory instability, was found to reflect congestive and other clinical status of acutely decompensated heart failure in the PROST study. Given that the association between RSI and another important factors affecting respiration, such as peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2), and the influence of oxygen inhalation on this association were undetermined, and that the association between common sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) parameters and RSI was unknown, we performed a subanalysis using PROST data. Methods and Results:
Correlation analyses were performed to evaluate the relationships between RSI, SpO2, and other SDB parameters (3% oxygen desaturation index [3%ODI], respiratory disturbance index [RDI]) using Spearman’s rank correlation. RSI and overnight mean SpO2
were not significantly correlated either after admission (n=38) or before discharge (n=36; r=0.27, P=0.10 and r=0.05, P=0.76, respectively). This correlation was also not affected by presence or absence of oxygen inhalation. 3%ODI, RDI and RSI were significantly and inversely correlated both after admission and before discharge. Conclusions:
RSI and blood oxygen level were not significantly correlated irrespective of oxygen inhalation, while the SDB parameters were significantly correlated, suggesting that RSI reflects lung congestion independently of blood oxygen concentration and, thus, can be a useful indicator of the non-invasive assessment of lung congestion.
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- Tomoyuki Tobushi
- Cardiovascular Medicine, Fukuokaken Saiseikai Futsukaichi Hospital Fukuoka Japan
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- Cardiovascular Medicine, Fukuokaken Saiseikai Futsukaichi Hospital Fukuoka Japan
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- Cardiology Division, Imizu Municipal Hospital Toyama Japan
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- Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine Mie Japan
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- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Toyama University Hospital Toyama Japan
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- Cardiovascular Medicine, Japan Community Health Care Organization Takaoka Fushiki Hospital Toyama Japan
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- Cardiovascular Medicine, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center Saitama Japan
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- Cardiovascular Medicine, Matsumoto Kyoritsu Hospital Nagano Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Matsue Red Cross Hospital Shimane Japan
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- Sleep Apnea Center, Kyushu University Hospital Fukuoka Japan
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- Department of Chronic Heart Failure Management, Global Center for Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University Osaka Japan
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Silva JN, Oliveira LM, Souza FC, Moreira TS, Takakura AC. Distinct pathways to the parafacial respiratory group to trigger active expiration in adult rats. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2019; 317:L402-L413. [DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00467.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Active expiration (AE) is part of the breathing phase; it is conditional and occurs when we increase our metabolic demand, such as during hypercapnia, hypoxia, or exercise. The parafacial respiratory group (pFRG) is involved in AE. Data from the literature suggest that excitatory and the absence of inhibitory inputs to the pFRG are necessary to determine AE. However, the source of the inputs to the pFRG that trigger AE remains unclear. We show in adult urethane-anesthetized Wistar rats that the pharmacological inhibition of the medial aspect of the nucleus of the solitary tract (mNTS) or the rostral aspect of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (rPPTg) is able to generate AE. In addition, direct inhibitory projection from the mNTS or indirect cholinergic projection from the rPPTg is able to contact pFRG to trigger AE. The inhibition of the mNTS or the rPPTg under conditions of high metabolic demand, such as hypercapnia (9–10% CO2), did not affect the AE. The present results suggest for the first time that inhibitory sources from the mNTS and a cholinergic pathway from the rPPTg, involving M2/M4 muscarinic receptors, could be important sources to modulate and sustain AE.
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- Josiane N. Silva
- Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biomedical Science, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biomedical Science, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biomedical Science, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Science, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biomedical Science, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Activation of Phox2b-Expressing Neurons in the Nucleus Tractus Solitarii Drives Breathing in Mice. J Neurosci 2019; 39:2837-2846. [PMID: 30626698 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2048-18.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2018] [Revised: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 12/28/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) is implicated in the control of breathing, but the neuronal phenotype and circuit mechanism involved in such a physiological function remain incompletely understood. This study focused on the respiratory role of paired-like homeobox 2b gene (Phox2b)-expressing NTS neurons and sought to determine whether selective stimulation of this set of neurons activates breathing in male mice. A Cre-dependent vector encoding a Gq-coupled human M3 muscarinic receptor (hM3Dq) was microinjected into the NTS of Phox2b-Cre transgenic mice. The hM3Dq-transduced neurons were pharmacologically activated in conscious mice while respiratory effects were measured by plethysmography. We demonstrate that chemogenetic stimulation of Phox2b-expressing NTS neurons significantly increased baseline minute volume via an increase in respiratory frequency rather than tidal volume. Chemogenetic stimulation also synergized with moderate CO2 stimulation to enhance pulmonary ventilatory response. Selective ablation of Phox2b-expressing NTS neurons notably attenuated a hypercapnic ventilatory response. Moreover, histological evidence revealed that stimulation of Phox2b-expressing NTS neurons increased neuronal activity of the preBötzinger complex. Finally, we presented the neuroanatomical evidence of direct projection of Phox2b-expressing NTS neurons to putative respiratory central pattern generator. Overall, these findings suggest that selective activation of Phox2b-expressing NTS neurons potentiates baseline pulmonary ventilation via an excitatory drive to respiratory central pattern generator and this group of neurons is also required for the hypercapnic ventilatory response.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) has been implicated in the control of breathing. The paired-like homeobox 2b gene (Phox2b) is the disease-defining gene for congenital central hypoventilation syndrome and is restrictively present in brainstem nucleus, including the NTS. Using a chemogenetic approach, we demonstrate herein that selective stimulation of Phox2b-expressing NTS neurons vigorously potentiates baseline pulmonary ventilation via an excitatory drive to respiratory central pattern generator in rodents. Genetic ablation of these neurons attenuates the hypercapnic ventilatory response. We also suggest that a fraction of Phox2b-expressing neurons exhibit CO2 sensitivity and presumably function as central respiratory chemoreceptors. The methodology is expected to provide a future applicability to the patients with sleep-related hypoventilation or apnea.
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Speretta GF, Lemes EV, Vendramini RC, Menani JV, Zoccal DB, Colombari E, Colombari DSA, Bassi M. High-fat diet increases respiratory frequency and abdominal expiratory motor activity during hypercapnia. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2018; 258:32-39. [PMID: 30308245 PMCID: PMC6317333 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2018.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2018] [Revised: 10/05/2018] [Accepted: 10/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Breathing disorders are commonly observed in association with obesity. Here we tested whether high-fat diet (HFD) impairs the chemoreflex ventilatory response. Male Holtzman rats (300-320 g) were fed with standard chow diet (SD) or HFD for 12 weeks. Then, tidal volume (VT), respiratory frequency (fR) and pulmonary ventilation (VE) were determined in conscious rats during basal condition, hypercapnia (7% or 10% CO2) or hypoxia (7% O2). The mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR) and baroreflex sensitivity were also evaluated in conscious rats. A group of anesthetized rats was used for the measurements of the activity of inspiratory (diaphragm) and expiratory (abdominal) muscles under the same gas conditions. Baseline fR, VT and VE were similar between SD and HFD rats. During hypercapnia, the increase of fR was exacerbated in conscious HFD rats (60 ± 3, vs. SD: 47 ± 3 Δ breaths.min-1, P < 0.05). In anesthetized rats, hypercapnia strongly increased abdominal muscle activity in HFD group (238 ± 27, vs. basal condition: 100 ± 0.3%; P < 0.05), without significant change in SD group (129 ± 2.1, vs. basal condition: 100 ± 0.8%; P = 0.34). The ventilatory responses to hypoxia were similar between groups. In conscious HFD rats, MAP and HR were elevated and the baroreflex function was impaired (P < 0.05). These data demonstrated that 12 weeks of HFD exaggerate the ventilatory response activated by hypercapnia. The mechanisms involved in these responses need more investigation in future studies.
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- Guilherme F Speretta
- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, Brazil.
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Clinical Analysis, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UNESP, Araraquara, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, Brazil.
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Inhibition of the hypercapnic ventilatory response by adenosine in the retrotrapezoid nucleus in awake rats. Neuropharmacology 2018; 138:47-56. [PMID: 29857188 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.05.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Revised: 05/14/2018] [Accepted: 05/22/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
The brain regulates breathing in response to changes in tissue CO2/H+ via a process called central chemoreception. Neurons and astrocytes in the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) function as respiratory chemoreceptors. The role of astrocytes in this process appears to involve CO2/H+-dependent release of ATP to enhance activity of chemosensitive RTN neurons. Considering that in most brain regions extracellular ATP is rapidly broken down to adenosine by ectonucleotidase activity and since adenosine is a potent neuromodulator, we wondered whether adenosine signaling contributes to RTN chemoreceptor function. To explore this possibility, we pharmacologically manipulated activity of adenosine receptors in the RTN under control conditions and during inhalation of 7-10% CO2 (hypercapnia). In urethane-anesthetized or unrestrained conscious rats, bilateral injections of adenosine into the RTN blunted the hypercapnia ventilatory response. The inhibitory effect of adenosine on breathing was blunted by prior RTN injection of a broad spectrum adenosine receptor blocker (8-PT) or a selective A1-receptor blocker (DPCPX). Although RTN injections of 8PT, DPCPX or the ectonucleotidase inhibitor ARL67156 did not affected baseline breathing in either anesthetized or awake rats. We did find that RTN application of DPCPX or ARL67156 potentiated the respiratory frequency response to CO2, suggesting a portion of ATP released in the RTN during high CO2/H+ is converted to adenosine and serves to limit chemoreceptor function. These results identify adenosine as a novel purinergic regulator of RTN chemoreceptor function during hypercapnia.
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Holbein WW, Blackburn MB, Andrade MA, Toney GM. Burst patterning of hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus-driven sympathetic nerve activity in ANG II-salt hypertension. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2017; 314:H530-H541. [PMID: 29167122 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00560.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
ANG II-salt hypertension selectively increases splanchnic sympathetic nerve activity (sSNA), but the extent to which this reflects increased respiratory versus cardiac rhythmic bursting is unknown. Here, integrated sSNA was elevated in ANG II-infused rats fed a high-salt (2% NaCl) diet (ANG II-HSD) compared with vehicle-infused rats fed a normal-salt (0.4% NaCl) diet (Veh-NSD; P < 0.01). Increased sSNA was not accompanied by increased inspiratory or expiratory bursting, consistent with no group difference in central inspiratory drive. Consistent with preserved inhibitory baroreflex entrainment of elevated sSNA in ANG II-HSD rats, the time integral ( P < 0.05) and amplitude ( P < 0.01) of cardiac rhythmic sSNA were increased. Consistent with activity of hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) neurons supporting basal SNA in ANG II-salt hypertension, inhibition of PVN with the GABA-A receptor agonist muscimol reduced mean arterial pressure (MAP) and integrated sSNA only in the ANG II-HSD group ( P < 0.001). PVN inhibition had no effect on respiratory rhythmic sSNA bursting in either group but reduced cardiac rhythmic sSNA in ANG II-HSD rats only ( P < 0.01). The latter likely reflected reduced inhibitory baroreflex entrainment subsequent to the fall of MAP. Of note is that MAP as well as integrated and rhythmic burst patterns of sSNA were similar in vehicle-infused rats whether they were fed a normal or high-salt diet. Findings indicate that PVN neurons support elevated sSNA in ANG II-HSD rats by driving a tonic component of activity without altering respiratory or cardiac rhythmic bursting. Because sSNA was unchanged in Veh-HSD rats, activation of PVN-driven tonic sSNA appears to require central actions of ANG II. NEW & NOTEWORTHY ANG II-salt hypertension is strongly neurogenic and depends on hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN)-driven splanchnic sympathetic nerve activity (sSNA). Here, respiratory and cardiac bursts of sSNA were preserved in ANG II-salt rats and unaltered by PVN inhibition, suggesting that PVN neurons drive a tonic component of sSNA rather than modulating dominant patterns of burst discharge.
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- Walter W Holbein
- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, Texas
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, Texas
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, Texas
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, Texas.,Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio, Texas
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Barnett WH, Jenkin SEM, Milsom WK, Paton JFR, Abdala AP, Molkov YI, Zoccal DB. The Kölliker-Fuse nucleus orchestrates the timing of expiratory abdominal nerve bursting. J Neurophysiol 2017; 119:401-412. [PMID: 29070631 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00499.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Coordination of respiratory pump and valve muscle activity is essential for normal breathing. A hallmark respiratory response to hypercapnia and hypoxia is the emergence of active exhalation, characterized by abdominal muscle pumping during the late one-third of expiration (late-E phase). Late-E abdominal activity during hypercapnia has been attributed to the activation of expiratory neurons located within the parafacial respiratory group (pFRG). However, the mechanisms that control emergence of active exhalation, and its silencing in restful breathing, are not completely understood. We hypothesized that inputs from the Kölliker-Fuse nucleus (KF) control the emergence of late-E activity during hypercapnia. Previously, we reported that reversible inhibition of the KF reduced postinspiratory (post-I) motor output to laryngeal adductor muscles and brought forward the onset of hypercapnia-induced late-E abdominal activity. Here we explored the contribution of the KF for late-E abdominal recruitment during hypercapnia by pharmacologically disinhibiting the KF in in situ decerebrate arterially perfused rat preparations. These data were combined with previous results and incorporated into a computational model of the respiratory central pattern generator. Disinhibition of the KF through local parenchymal microinjections of gabazine (GABAA receptor antagonist) prolonged vagal post-I activity and inhibited late-E abdominal output during hypercapnia. In silico, we reproduced this behavior and predicted a mechanism in which the KF provides excitatory drive to post-I inhibitory neurons, which in turn inhibit late-E neurons of the pFRG. Although the exact mechanism proposed by the model requires testing, our data confirm that the KF modulates the formation of late-E abdominal activity during hypercapnia. NEW & NOTEWORTHY The pons is essential for the formation of the three-phase respiratory pattern, controlling the inspiratory-expiratory phase transition. We provide functional evidence of a novel role for the Kölliker-Fuse nucleus (KF) controlling the emergence of abdominal expiratory bursts during active expiration. A computational model of the respiratory central pattern generator predicts a possible mechanism by which the KF interacts indirectly with the parafacial respiratory group and exerts an inhibitory effect on the expiratory conditional oscillator.
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- William H Barnett
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University , Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada
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- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol , Bristol , United Kingdom.,Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol , Bristol , United Kingdom
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University , Atlanta, Georgia.,Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University , Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, São Paulo State University , Araraquara , Brazil
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Moreira TS, Takakura AC, Czeisler C, Otero JJ. Respiratory and autonomic dysfunction in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome. J Neurophysiol 2016; 116:742-52. [PMID: 27226447 PMCID: PMC6208311 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00026.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2016] [Accepted: 05/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The developmental lineage of the PHOX2B-expressing neurons in the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) has been extensively studied. These cells are thought to function as central respiratory chemoreceptors, i.e., the mechanism by which brain Pco2 regulates breathing. The molecular and cellular basis of central respiratory chemoreception is based on the detection of CO2 via intrinsic proton receptors (TASK-2, GPR4) as well as synaptic input from peripheral chemoreceptors and other brain regions. Murine models of congenital central hypoventilation syndrome designed with PHOX2B mutations have suggested RTN neuron agenesis. In this review, we examine, through human and experimental animal models, how a restricted number of neurons that express the transcription factor PHOX2B play a crucial role in the control of breathing and autonomic regulation.
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- Thiago S Moreira
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
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- Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and
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- The Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, Columbus, Ohio
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- The Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, Columbus, Ohio
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Guyenet PG, Bayliss DA, Stornetta RL, Ludwig MG, Kumar NN, Shi Y, Burke PGR, Kanbar R, Basting TM, Holloway BB, Wenker IC. Proton detection and breathing regulation by the retrotrapezoid nucleus. J Physiol 2016; 594:1529-51. [PMID: 26748771 PMCID: PMC4799966 DOI: 10.1113/jp271480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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We discuss recent evidence which suggests that the principal central respiratory chemoreceptors are located within the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) and that RTN neurons are directly sensitive to [H(+) ]. RTN neurons are glutamatergic. In vitro, their activation by [H(+) ] requires expression of a proton-activated G protein-coupled receptor (GPR4) and a proton-modulated potassium channel (TASK-2) whose transcripts are undetectable in astrocytes and the rest of the lower brainstem respiratory network. The pH response of RTN neurons is modulated by surrounding astrocytes but genetic deletion of RTN neurons or deletion of both GPR4 and TASK-2 virtually eliminates the central respiratory chemoreflex. Thus, although this reflex is regulated by innumerable brain pathways, it seems to operate predominantly by modulating the discharge rate of RTN neurons, and the activation of RTN neurons by hypercapnia may ultimately derive from their intrinsic pH sensitivity. RTN neurons increase lung ventilation by stimulating multiple aspects of breathing simultaneously. They stimulate breathing about equally during quiet wake and non-rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and to a lesser degree during REM sleep. The activity of RTN neurons is regulated by inhibitory feedback and by excitatory inputs, notably from the carotid bodies. The latter input operates during normo- or hypercapnia but fails to activate RTN neurons under hypocapnic conditions. RTN inhibition probably limits the degree of hyperventilation produced by hypocapnic hypoxia. RTN neurons are also activated by inputs from serotonergic neurons and hypothalamic neurons. The absence of RTN neurons probably underlies the sleep apnoea and lack of chemoreflex that characterize congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.
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- Patrice G Guyenet
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lebanese American University, Beyrouth, Lebanon
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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Contiguous brain regions associated with a given behavior are increasingly being divided into subregions associated with distinct aspects of that behavior. Using recently developed neuronal hyperpolarizing technologies, we functionally dissect the parafacial region in the medulla, which contains key elements of the central pattern generator for breathing that are important in central CO2-chemoreception and for gating active expiration. By transfecting different populations of neighboring neurons with allatostatin or HM4D Gi/o-coupled receptors, we analyzed the effect of their hyperpolarization on respiration in spontaneously breathing vagotomized urethane-anesthetized rats. We identify two functionally separate parafacial nuclei: ventral (pFV) and lateral (pFL). Disinhibition of the pFL with bicuculline and strychnine led to active expiration. Hyperpolarizing pFL neurons had no effect on breathing at rest, or changes in inspiratory activity induced by hypoxia and hypercapnia; however, hyperpolarizing pFL neurons attenuated active expiration when it was induced by hypercapnia, hypoxia, or disinhibition of the pFL. In contrast, hyperpolarizing pFV neurons affected breathing at rest by decreasing inspiratory-related activity, attenuating the hypoxia- and hypercapnia-induced increase in inspiratory activity, and when present, reducing expiratory-related abdominal activity. Together with previous observations, we conclude that the pFV provides a generic excitatory drive to breathe, even at rest, whereas the pFL is a conditional oscillator quiet at rest that, when activated, e.g., during exercise, drives active expiration.
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Moreira TS, Wenker IC, Sobrinho CR, Barna BF, Takakura AC, Mulkey DK. Independent purinergic mechanisms of central and peripheral chemoreception in the rostral ventrolateral medulla. J Physiol 2015; 593:1067-74. [PMID: 25524282 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.284430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2014] [Accepted: 12/15/2014] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The rostral ventrolateral medulla oblongata (RVLM) contains two functionally distinct types of neurons that control and orchestrate cardiovascular and respiratory responses to hypoxia and hypercapnia. One group is composed of the central chemoreceptor neurons of the retrotrapezoid nucleus, which provides a CO₂/H(+) -dependent drive to breathe and serves as an integration centre and a point of convergence of chemosensory information from other central and peripheral sites, including the carotid bodies. The second cluster of RVLM cells forms a population of neurons belonging to the C1 catecholaminergic group that controls sympathetic vasomotor tone in resting conditions and in conditions of hypoxia and hypercapnia. Recent evidence suggests that ATP-mediated purinergic signalling at the level of the RVLM co-ordinates cardiovascular and respiratory responses triggered by hypoxia and hypercapnia by activating retrotrapezoid nucleus and C1 neurons, respectively. The role of ATP-mediated signalling in the RVLM mechanisms of cardiovascular and respiratory activities is the main subject of this short review.
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- Thiago S Moreira
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508, Brazil
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González-López A, Albaiceta GM, Talbot K. Newly identified precipitating factors in mechanical ventilation-induced brain damage: implications for treating ICU delirium. Expert Rev Neurother 2015; 14:583-8. [PMID: 24852225 DOI: 10.1586/14737175.2014.915743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Delirium is 1.5 to 4.1 times as likely in intensive care unit patients when they are mechanically ventilated. While progress in treatment has occurred, delirium is still a major problem in mechanically ventilated patients. Based on studies of a murine mechanical ventilation model, we summarize evidence here for a novel mechanism by which such ventilation can quickly initiate brain damage likely to cause cognitive deficits expressed as delirium. That mechanism consists of aberrant vagal sensory input driving sustained dopamine D2 receptor (D2R) signaling in the hippocampal formation, which induces apoptosis in that brain area within 90 min without causing hypoxia, oxidative stress, or inflammatory responses. This argues for minimizing the duration and tidal volumes of mechanical ventilation and for more effectively reducing sustained D2R signaling than achieved with haloperidol alone. The latter might be accomplished by reducing D2R cell surface expression and D2R-mediated Akt inhibition by elevating protein expression of dysbindin-1C.
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- Adrián González-López
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin - Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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Jerath R, Crawford MW, Barnes VA, Harden K. Widespread depolarization during expiration: A source of respiratory drive? Med Hypotheses 2015; 84:31-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2014.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2014] [Revised: 10/23/2014] [Accepted: 11/08/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Lung ventilation fluctuates widely with behavior but arterial PCO2 remains stable. Under normal conditions, the chemoreflexes contribute to PaCO2 stability by producing small corrective cardiorespiratory adjustments mediated by lower brainstem circuits. Carotid body (CB) information reaches the respiratory pattern generator (RPG) via nucleus solitarius (NTS) glutamatergic neurons which also target rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) presympathetic neurons thereby raising sympathetic nerve activity (SNA). Chemoreceptors also regulate presympathetic neurons and cardiovagal preganglionic neurons indirectly via inputs from the RPG. Secondary effects of chemoreceptors on the autonomic outflows result from changes in lung stretch afferent and baroreceptor activity. Central respiratory chemosensitivity is caused by direct effects of acid on neurons and indirect effects of CO2 via astrocytes. Central respiratory chemoreceptors are not definitively identified but the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) is a particularly strong candidate. The absence of RTN likely causes severe central apneas in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome. Like other stressors, intense chemosensory stimuli produce arousal and activate circuits that are wake- or attention-promoting. Such pathways (e.g., locus coeruleus, raphe, and orexin system) modulate the chemoreflexes in a state-dependent manner and their activation by strong chemosensory stimuli intensifies these reflexes. In essential hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea and congestive heart failure, chronically elevated CB afferent activity contributes to raising SNA but breathing is unchanged or becomes periodic (severe CHF). Extreme CNS hypoxia produces a stereotyped cardiorespiratory response (gasping, increased SNA). The effects of these various pathologies on brainstem cardiorespiratory networks are discussed, special consideration being given to the interactions between central and peripheral chemoreflexes.
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- Patrice G Guyenet
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Lemes EV, Zoccal DB. Vagal afferent control of abdominal expiratory activity in response to hypoxia and hypercapnia in rats. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2014; 203:90-7. [PMID: 25218412 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2014.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2014] [Revised: 07/31/2014] [Accepted: 08/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that vagal afferent information modulates the pattern of expiratory response to hypercapnia and hypoxia. Simultaneous recordings of airflow, diaphragmatic (DIA) and oblique abdominal muscle (ABD) activities were performed in anesthetized (urethane, 1.2g/kg), tracheostomized, spontaneously breathing male Wistar rats (290-320g, n=12). The animals were exposed to hypercapnia (7 and 10% CO2 for 5min) and hypoxia (7% O2 for 1min) before and after bilateral vagotomy. We verified that the percentage increase in DIA burst amplitude elicited by hypercapnia and hypoxia episodes was similar between intact and vagotomized rats (P>0.05). In contrast, hypercapnia and hypoxia promoted a marked increase in ABD activity in vagotomized, but not in intact rats (P<0.01). These amplified expiratory motor changes after vagotomy were associated with enhanced expiratory airflow (P<0.01) and augmented tidal volume responses (P<0.01). Our data indicates that, in anesthetized conditions, the removal of peripheral afferent inputs facilitates the processing of active expiration in response to hypercapnia and hypoxia in rats.
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- Eduardo V Lemes
- Department of Physiological Sciences, Center of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Center of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil; Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of Araraquara, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, Brazil.
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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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Barna BF, Takakura AC, Moreira TS. Acute exercise-induced activation of Phox2b-expressing neurons of the retrotrapezoid nucleus in rats may involve the hypothalamus. Neuroscience 2013; 258:355-63. [PMID: 24286756 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.11.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2013] [Revised: 10/19/2013] [Accepted: 11/17/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The rat retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) contains neurons that have a well-defined phenotype characterized by the presence of vesicular glutamate transporter 2 (VGLUT2) mRNA and a paired-like homeobox 2b (Phox2b)-immunoreactive (ir) nucleus and the absence of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH). These neurons are important to chemoreception. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that the chemically-coded RTN neurons (ccRTN) (Phox2b(+)/TH(-)) are activated during an acute episode of running exercise. Since most RTN neurons are excited by the activation of perifornical and lateral hypothalamus (PeF/LH), a region that regulates breathing during exercise, we also tested the hypothesis that PeF/LH projections to RTN neurons contribute to their activation during acute exercise. In adult male Wistar rats that underwent an acute episode of treadmill exercise, there was a significant increase in c-Fos immunoreactive (c-Fos-ir) in PeF/LH neurons and RTN neurons that were Phox2b(+)TH(-) (p<0.05) compared to rats that did not exercise. Also the retrograde tracer Fluoro-Gold that was injected into RTN was detected in c-Fos-ir PeF/LH (p<0.05). In summary, the ccRTN neurons (Phox2b(+)TH(-)) are excited by running exercise. Thus, ccRTN neurons may contribute to both the chemical drive to breath and the feed-forward control of breathing associated with exercise.
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- B F Barna
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Science, University of São Paulo, 05508-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biomedical Science, University of São Paulo, 05508-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Science, University of São Paulo, 05508-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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Neurophysiologically, central apnea is due to a temporary failure in the pontomedullary pacemaker generating breathing rhythm. As a polysomnographic finding, central apneas occur in many pathophysiological conditions. Depending on the cause or mechanism, central apneas may not be clinically significant, for example, those that occur normally at sleep onset. In contrast, central apneas occur in a number of disorders and result in pathophysiological consequences. Central apneas occur commonly in high-altitude sojourn, disrupt sleep, and cause desaturation. Central sleep apnea also occurs in number of disorders across all age groups and both genders. Common causes of central sleep apnea in adults are congestive heart failure and chronic use of opioids to treat pain. Under such circumstances, diagnosis and treatment of central sleep apnea may improve quality of life, morbidity, and perhaps mortality. The mechanisms of central sleep apnea have been best studied in congestive heart failure and hypoxic conditions when there is increased CO2 sensitivity below eupnea resulting in lowering eupneic PCO2 below apneic threshold causing cessation of breathing until the PCO2 rises above the apneic threshold when breathing resumes. In many other disorders, the mechanism of central sleep apnea (CSA) remains to be investigated.
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- S Javaheri
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
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Guyenet PG, Abbott SBG. Chemoreception and asphyxia-induced arousal. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2013; 188:333-43. [PMID: 23608705 PMCID: PMC3749262 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2013.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2013] [Revised: 04/02/2013] [Accepted: 04/06/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Arousal protects against the adverse and potentially fatal effects of asphyxia during sleep. Asphyxia stimulates the carotid bodies and central chemoreceptors but the sequence of events leading to arousal is uncertain. In this review, the theoretical mechanisms leading to arousal from sleep are briefly summarized and the issue of whether central respiratory chemoreceptors (CRCs) or other types of CO2-responsive CNS neurons contribute to asphyxia-induced arousal is discussed. We focus on the role of the retrotrapezoid nucleus, the raphe and the locus coeruleus and emphasize the anatomical and neurophysiological evidence which suggests that these putative central chemoreceptors could contribute to arousal independently of their effects on breathing. Finally, we describe recent attempts to test the contribution of specific brainstem pathways to asphyxia-induced arousal using optogenetic and other tools and the possible contribution of a group of hypoxia-sensitive brainstem neurons (the C1 cells) to breathing and arousal.
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- Patrice G Guyenet
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, United States.
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Takakura AC, Moreira TS, De Paula PM, Menani JV, Colombari E. Control of breathing and blood pressure by parafacial neurons in conscious rats. Exp Physiol 2012; 98:304-15. [DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2012.065128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Pontomedullary and hypothalamic distribution of Fos-like immunoreactive neurons after acute exercise in rats. Neuroscience 2012; 212:120-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.03.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2011] [Revised: 03/27/2012] [Accepted: 03/28/2012] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Tin C, Song G, Poon CS. Hypercapnia attenuates inspiratory amplitude and expiratory time responsiveness to hypoxia in vagotomized and vagal-intact rats. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2012; 181:79-87. [PMID: 22326640 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2012.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2011] [Revised: 01/19/2012] [Accepted: 01/24/2012] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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A negative influence of central chemosensitivity on peripheral chemoreflex response has been demonstrated recently in a decerebrate-vagotomized rat preparation in situ with separate carotid body and brainstem perfusions. Here, we report similar negative influences of hypercapnia on the hypoxic respiratory response in anesthetized, spontaneously breathing rats before and after vagotomy and anesthetized, artificially ventilated rats after vagotomy. Baseline breathing patterns and responsiveness to hypercapnia and hypoxia varied widely between the three respiratory modes. Despite this, the responses in inspiratory amplitude and expiratory duration (and hence respiratory frequency and neural ventilation) to hypoxia varied inversely with the background CO2 level in all three groups. Results demonstrate a hypoadditive hypercapnic-hypoxic interaction in vivo that resembles the hypoadditive central-peripheral chemoreceptor interaction in situ for these respiratory variables in the rat, regardless of differences in vagal feedback, body temperature and ventilation method. These observations stand in contrast to previous reports of hyperadditive peripheral-central chemoreceptor interaction.
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- Chung Tin
- Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Dumont FS, Kinkead R. Neonatal stress and abnormal hypercapnic ventilatory response of adult male rats: The role of central chemodetection and pulmonary stretch receptors. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2011; 179:158-66. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2011.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2011] [Revised: 07/21/2011] [Accepted: 07/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Abbott SBG, Stornetta RL, Coates MB, Guyenet PG. Phox2b-expressing neurons of the parafacial region regulate breathing rate, inspiration, and expiration in conscious rats. J Neurosci 2011; 31:16410-22. [PMID: 22072691 PMCID: PMC3236529 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3280-11.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2011] [Revised: 09/02/2011] [Accepted: 09/21/2011] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The retrotrapezoid nucleus contains Phox2b-expressing glutamatergic neurons (RTN-Phox2b neurons) that regulate breathing in a CO₂-dependent manner. Here we use channelrhodopsin-based optogenetics to explore how these neurons control breathing in conscious and anesthetized adult rats. Respiratory entrainment (pacing) of breathing frequency (fR) was produced over 57% (anesthetized) and 28% (conscious) of the natural frequency range by burst activation of RTN-Phox2b neurons (3-8 × 0.5-20 ms pulses at 20 Hz). In conscious rats, pacing under normocapnic conditions increased tidal volume (V(T)) and each inspiration was preceded by active expiration, denoting abdominal muscle contraction. During long-term pacing V(T) returned to prestimulation levels, suggesting that central chemoreceptors such as RTN-Phox2b neurons regulate V(T) partly independently of their effect on fR. Randomly applied light trains reset the respiratory rhythm and shortened the expiratory phase when the stimulus coincided with late-inspiration or early-expiration. Importantly, continuous (20 Hz) photostimulation of the RTN-Phox2b neurons and a saturating CO₂ concentration produced similar effects on breathing that were much larger than those elicited by phasic RTN stimulation. In sum, consistent with their anatomical projections, RTN-Phox2b neurons regulate lung ventilation by controlling breathing frequency, inspiration, and active expiration. Adult RTN-Phox2b neurons can entrain the respiratory rhythm if their discharge is artificially synchronized, but continuous activation of these neurons is much more effective at increasing lung ventilation. These results suggest that RTN-Phox2b neurons are no longer rhythmogenic in adulthood and that their average discharge rate may be far more important than their discharge pattern in driving lung ventilation.
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- Stephen B. G. Abbott
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
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Taxini CL, Takakura AC, Gargaglioni LH, Moreira TS. Control of the central chemoreflex by A5 noradrenergic neurons in rats. Neuroscience 2011; 199:177-86. [PMID: 22015927 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.09.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2011] [Revised: 09/05/2011] [Accepted: 09/30/2011] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Central chemoreflex stimulation produces an increase in phrenic nerve activity (PNA) and sympathetic nerve activity (SNA). The A5 noradrenergic region projects to several brainstem areas involved in autonomic regulation and contributes to the increase in SNA elicited by peripheral chemoreflex activation. The aim of the present study was to further test the hypothesis that the A5 noradrenergic region could contribute to central chemoreflex activation. In urethane-anesthetized, sino-aortic denervated, and vagotomized male Wistar rats (n=6-8/group), hypercapnia (end-expiratory CO₂ from 5% to 10%) increased mean arterial pressure (MAP; Δ=+33±4 mmHg, P<0.05), splanchnic SNA (sSNA; Δ=+97±13%, P<0.05), and PNA frequency and amplitude. Bilateral injection of muscimol (GABA-A agonist; 2 mM) into the A5 noradrenergic region reduced the rise in MAP (Δ=+19±3 mmHg, P<0.05), sSNA (Δ=+63±5%, P<0.05), and PNA frequency and amplitude produced by hypercapnia. Injections of the immunotoxin anti-dopamine β-hydroxylase-saporin (anti-DβH-SAP) into the A5 region destroyed TH⁺ neurons but spared facial motoneurons and the chemosensitive neurons in the retrotrapezoid nucleus that express the transcription factor Phox2b and that are non-catecholaminergic (TH⁻Phox2b⁺). Two weeks after selective destruction of the A5 region with the anti-DβH-SAP toxin, the increase in MAP (Δ=+22±5 mmHg, P<0.05), sSNA (Δ=+68±9%, P<0.05), and PNA amplitude was reduced after central chemoreflex activation. These results suggest that A5 noradrenergic neurons contribute to the increase in MAP, sSNA, and PNA activation during central chemoreflex stimulation.
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- C L Taxini
- Department of Morphology and Animal Physiology, São Paulo State University (UNESP), 14884-900 Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil
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Favero MT, Takakura AC, de Paula PM, Colombari E, Menani JV, Moreira TS. Chemosensory control by commissural nucleus of the solitary tract in rats. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2011; 179:227-34. [PMID: 21884826 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2011.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2011] [Revised: 08/17/2011] [Accepted: 08/18/2011] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The commissural nucleus of the solitary tract (commNTS) is a main area that receives afferent signals involved in the cardiovascular and respiratory control like those related to chemoreceptor activation, however, the importance of the commNTS for the cardiorespiratory responses to chemoreceptor activation is still controversial. In the present study, we investigated the cardiorespiratory responses to hypoxia or hypercapnia in anesthetized and conscious rats treated with injections of the GABA-A agonist muscimol into the caudal portion of the commNTS. Male Holtzman rats (280-300 g) were used. In conscious rats that had a stainless steel cannula previously implanted into the commNTS, the injection of muscimol (2 mM) into the commNTS reduced the pressor response (16±2 mmHg, vs. saline: 36±3 mmHg) and the increase in ventilation (250±17 ml/min/kg, vs. saline: 641±28 ml/min/kg) produced by hypoxia (8-10% O(2)). In urethane anesthetized rats, the injection of muscimol into the commNTS eliminated the pressor response (5±2 mmHg, vs. saline: 26±5 mmHg) and the increase in phrenic nerve discharge (PND) (20±6%, vs. saline: 149±15%) and reduced the increase in splanchnic sympathetic nerve discharge (sSND) (93±15%, vs. saline: 283±19% of baseline) produced by hypoxia. However, muscimol injected into the commNTS did not change hypercapnia (8-10% CO(2)) induced pressor response or the increase in the sSND or PND in urethane anesthetized rats or the increase in ventilation in conscious rats. The present results suggest that the cardiorespiratory responses to hypoxia are strongly dependent on the caudal portion of the commNTS, however, this area is not involved in the responses to hypercapnia.
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- Michele T Favero
- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, Brazil
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Takakura AC, Moreira TS. Contribution of excitatory amino acid receptors of the retrotrapezoid nucleus to the sympathetic chemoreflex in rats. Exp Physiol 2011; 96:989-99. [DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2011.058842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Caudal nuclei of the rat nucleus of the solitary tract differentially innervate respiratory compartments within the ventrolateral medulla. Neuroscience 2011; 190:207-27. [PMID: 21704133 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2011] [Revised: 05/27/2011] [Accepted: 06/01/2011] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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A substantial array of respiratory, cardiovascular, visceral and somatic afferents are relayed via the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) to the brainstem (and forebrain). Despite some degree of overlap within the NTS, specificity is maintained in central respiratory reflexes driven by second order afferent relay neurons in the NTS. While the topographic arrangement of respiratory-related afferents targeting the NTS has been extensively investigated, their higher order brainstem targets beyond the NTS has only rarely been defined with any precision. Nonetheless, the various brainstem circuits serving blood gas homeostasis and airway protective reflexes must clearly receive a differential innervation from the NTS in order to evoke stimulus appropriate behavioral responses. Accordingly, we have examined the question of which specific NTS nuclei project to particular compartments within the ventral respiratory column (VRC) of the ventrolateral medulla. Our analyses of NTS labeling after retrograde tracer injections in the VRC and the nearby neuronal groups controlling autonomic function indicate a significant distinction between projections to the Bötzinger complex and preBötzinger complex compared to the remainder of the VRC. Specifically, the caudomedial NTS, including caudal portions of the medial solitary nucleus and the commissural division of NTS project relatively densely to the region of the retrotrapezoid nucleus and rostral ventrolateral medullary nucleus as well as to the rostral ventral respiratory group while avoiding the intervening Bötzinger and preBötzinger complexes. Area postrema appears to demonstrate a pattern of projections similar to that of caudal medial and commissural NTS nuclei. Other, less pronounced differential projections of lateral NTS nuclei to the various VRC compartments are additionally noted.
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Pagliardini S, Janczewski WA, Tan W, Dickson CT, Deisseroth K, Feldman JL. Active expiration induced by excitation of ventral medulla in adult anesthetized rats. J Neurosci 2011; 31:2895-905. [PMID: 21414911 PMCID: PMC3142740 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5338-10.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2010] [Revised: 12/02/2010] [Accepted: 12/21/2010] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Data from perinatal and juvenile rodents support our hypothesis that the preBötzinger complex generates inspiratory rhythm and the retrotrapezoid nucleus-parafacial respiratory group (RTN/pFRG) generates active expiration (AE). Although the role of the RTN/pFRG in adulthood is disputed, we hypothesized that its rhythmogenicity persists but is typically silenced by synaptic inhibition. We show in adult anesthetized rats that local pharmacological disinhibition or optogenetic excitation of the RTN/pFRG can generate AE and transforms previously silent RTN/pFRG neurons into rhythmically active cells whose firing is correlated with late-phase active expiration. Brief excitatory stimuli also reset the respiratory rhythm, indicating strong coupling of AE to inspiration. The AE network location in adult rats overlaps with the perinatal pFRG and appears lateral to the chemosensitive region of adult RTN. We suggest that (1) the RTN/pFRG contains a conditional oscillator that generates AE, and (2) at rest and in anesthesia, synaptic inhibition of RTN/pFRG suppresses AE.
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- Silvia Pagliardini
- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1763
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- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1763
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- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1763
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- Departments of Psychology
- Physiology, and
- Centre for Neuroscience, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada, and
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- Departments of Bioengineering and
- Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1763
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Moreira TS, Takakura AC, Colombari E. Important GABAergic mechanism within the NTS and the control of sympathetic baroreflex in SHR. Auton Neurosci 2011; 159:62-70. [DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2010.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2009] [Revised: 07/17/2010] [Accepted: 08/10/2010] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Takakura AC, Colombari E, Menani JV, Moreira TS. Ventrolateral medulla mechanisms involved in cardiorespiratory responses to central chemoreceptor activation in rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2010; 300:R501-10. [PMID: 21068198 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00220.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A rise in arterial Pco(2) stimulates breathing and sympathetic activity to the heart and blood vessels. In the present study, we investigated the involvement of the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) and glutamatergic mechanisms in the Bötzinger/C1 region (Bötz/C1) in these responses. Splanchnic sympathetic nerve discharge (sSND) and phrenic nerve discharge (PND) were recorded in urethane-anesthetized, sino-aortic-denervated, vagotomized, and artificially ventilated rats subjected to hypercapnia (end-expiratory CO(2) from 5% to 10%). Phrenic activity was absent at end-expiratory CO(2) of 4%, and strongly increased when end-expiratory CO(2) reached 10%. Hypercapnia also increased sSND by 103 ± 7%. Bilateral injections of the GABA-A agonist muscimol (2 mM) into the RTN eliminated the PND and blunted the sSND activation (Δ = +56 ± 8%) elicited by hypercapnia. Injections of NMDA receptor antagonist AP-5 (100 mM), non-NMDA receptor antagonist 6,7-dinitro-quinoxaline-2,3-dione (DNQX; 100 mM) or metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonist (+/-)-alpha-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine (MCPG; 100 mM) bilaterally into the Bötz/C1 reduced PND (Δ = +43 ± 7%, +52 ± 6% or +56 ± 11%, respectively). MCPG also reduced sSND (Δ = +41 ± 7%), whereas AP-5 and DNQX had no effect. In conclusion, the increase in sSND caused by hypercapnia depends on increased activity of the RTN and on metabotropic receptors in the Bötz/C1, whereas PND depends on increased RTN activity and both ionotropic and metabotropic receptors in the Bötz/C1.
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- Ana C Takakura
- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil
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Hodges MR, Richerson GB. Medullary serotonin neurons and their roles in central respiratory chemoreception. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2010; 173:256-63. [PMID: 20226279 PMCID: PMC4554718 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2010.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2010] [Revised: 03/03/2010] [Accepted: 03/04/2010] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Much progress has been made in our understanding of central chemoreception since the seminal experiments of Fencl, Loeschcke, Mitchell and others, including identification of new brainstem regions and specific neuron types that may serve as central "sensors" of CO(2)/pH. In this review, we discuss key attributes, or minimal requirements a neuron/cell must possess to be defined as a central respiratory chemoreceptor, and summarize how well each of the various candidates fulfill these minimal criteria-especially the presence of intrinsic chemosensitivity. We then discuss some of the in vitro and in vivo evidence in support of the conclusion that medullary serotonin (5-HT) neurons are central chemoreceptors. We also provide an additional hypothesis that chemosensitive medullary 5-HT neurons are poised to integrate multiple synaptic inputs from various other sources thought to influence ventilation. Finally, we discuss open questions and future studies that may aid in continuing our advances in understanding central chemoreception.
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- Matthew R Hodges
- Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
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Anesthetic activation of central respiratory chemoreceptor neurons involves inhibition of a THIK-1-like background K(+) current. J Neurosci 2010; 30:9324-34. [PMID: 20610767 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1956-10.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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At surgical depths of anesthesia, inhalational anesthetics cause a loss of motor response to painful stimuli (i.e., immobilization) that is characterized by profound inhibition of spinal motor circuits. Yet, although clearly depressed, the respiratory motor system continues to provide adequate ventilation under these same conditions. Here, we show that isoflurane causes robust activation of CO(2)/pH-sensitive, Phox2b-expressing neurons located in the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) of the rodent brainstem, in vitro and in vivo. In brainstem slices from Phox2b-eGFP mice, the firing of pH-sensitive RTN neurons was strongly increased by isoflurane, independent of prevailing pH conditions. At least two ionic mechanisms contributed to anesthetic activation of RTN neurons: activation of an Na(+)-dependent cationic current and inhibition of a background K(+) current. Single-cell reverse transcription-PCR analysis of dissociated green fluorescent protein-labeled RTN neurons revealed expression of THIK-1 (TWIK-related halothane-inhibited K(+) channel, K(2P)13.1), a channel that shares key properties with the native RTN current (i.e., suppression by inhalational anesthetics, weak rectification, inhibition by extracellular Na(+), and pH-insensitivity). Isoflurane also increased firing rate of RTN chemosensitive neurons in urethane-anesthetized rats, again independent of CO(2) levels. In these animals, isoflurane transiently enhanced activity of the respiratory system, an effect that was most prominent at low levels of respiratory drive and mediated primarily by an increase in respiratory frequency. These data indicate that inhalational anesthetics cause activation of RTN neurons, which serve an important integrative role in respiratory control; the increased drive provided by enhanced RTN neuronal activity may contribute, in part, to maintaining respiratory motor activity under immobilizing anesthetic conditions.
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Blain GM, Smith CA, Henderson KS, Dempsey JA. Peripheral chemoreceptors determine the respiratory sensitivity of central chemoreceptors to CO(2). J Physiol 2010; 588:2455-71. [PMID: 20421288 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.187211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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We assessed the contribution of carotid body chemoreceptors to the ventilatory response to specific CNS hypercapnia in eight unanaesthetized, awake dogs. We denervated one carotid body (CB) and used extracorporeal blood perfusion of the reversibly isolated remaining CB to maintain normal CB blood gases (normoxic, normocapnic perfusate), to inhibit (hyperoxic, hypocapnic perfusate) or to stimulate (hypoxic, normocapnic perfusate) the CB chemoreflex, while the systemic circulation, and therefore the CNS and central chemoreceptors, were exposed consecutively to four progressive levels of systemic arterial hypercapnia via increased fractional inspired CO(2) for 7 min at each level. Neither unilateral CB denervation nor CB perfusion, per se, affected breathing. Relative to CB control conditions (normoxic, normocapnic perfusion), we found that CB chemoreflex inhibition decreased the slope of the ventilatory response to CNS hypercapnia in all dogs to an average of 19% of control values (range 0-38%; n = 6), whereas CB chemoreflex stimulation increased the slope of the ventilatory response to CNS hypercapnia in all dogs to an average of 223% of control values (range 204-235%; n = 4). We conclude that the gain of the CNS CO(2)/H(+) chemoreceptors in dogs is critically dependent on CB afferent activity and that CNS-CB interaction results in hyperadditive ventilatory responses to central hypercapnia.
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- Gregory M Blain
- The John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 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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Costa-Silva JH, Zoccal DB, Machado BH. Glutamatergic Antagonism in the NTS Decreases Post-Inspiratory Drive and Changes Phrenic and Sympathetic Coupling During Chemoreflex Activation. J Neurophysiol 2010; 103:2095-106. [DOI: 10.1152/jn.00802.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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For a better understanding of the processing at the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) level of the autonomic and respiratory responses to peripheral chemoreceptor activation, herein we evaluated the role of glutamatergic neurotransmission in the intermediate (iNTS) and caudal NTS (cNTS) on baseline respiratory parameters and on chemoreflex-evoked responses using the in situ working heart-brain stem preparation (WHBP). The activities of phrenic (PND), cervical vagus (cVNA), and thoracic sympathetic (tSNA) nerves were recorded before and after bilateral microinjections of kynurenic acid (Kyn, 5 nmol/20 nl) into iNTS, cNTS, or both simultaneously. In WHBP, baseline sympathetic discharge markedly correlated with phrenic bursts (inspiration). However, most of sympathoexcitation elicited by chemoreflex activation occurred during expiration. Kyn microinjected into iNTS or into cNTS decreased the postinspiratory component of cVNA and increased the duration and frequency of PND. Kyn into iNTS produced no changes in sympathoexcitatory and tachypneic responses to peripheral chemoreflex activation, whereas into cNTS, a reduction of the sympathoexcitation, but not of the tachypnea, was observed. The pattern of phrenic and sympathetic coupling during the chemoreflex activation was an inspiratory-related rather than an expiratory-related sympathoexcitation. Kyn simultaneously into iNTS and cNTS produced a greater decrease in postinspiratory component of cVNA and increase in frequency and duration of PND and abolished the respiratory and autonomic responses to chemoreflex activation. The data show that glutamatergic neurotransmission in the iNTS and cNTS plays a tonic role on the baseline respiratory rhythm, contributes to the postinspiratory activity, and is essential to expiratory-related sympathoexcitation observed during chemoreflex activation.
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- João H. Costa-Silva
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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An interdependent model of central/peripheral chemoreception: evidence and implications for ventilatory control. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2010; 173:288-97. [PMID: 20206717 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2010.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2010] [Revised: 02/23/2010] [Accepted: 02/24/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In this review we discuss the implications for ventilatory control of newer evidence suggesting that central and peripheral chemoreceptors are not functionally separate but rather that they are dependent upon one another such that the sensitivity of the medullary chemoreceptors is critically determined by input from the carotid body chemoreceptors and vice versa i.e., they are interdependent. We examine potential interactions of the interdependent central and carotid body (CB) chemoreceptors with other ventilatory-related inputs such as central hypoxia, lung stretch, and exercise. The limitations of current approaches addressing this question are discussed and future studies are suggested.
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Forster HV, Smith CA. Contributions of central and peripheral chemoreceptors to the ventilatory response to CO2/H+. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2010; 108:989-94. [PMID: 20075260 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01059.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The major objective of this review is to evaluate existing information and reach conclusions regarding whether there is interaction between P(CO(2))/H(+) stimulation of carotid (peripheral) and intracranial (central) chemoreceptors. Interaction is defined as a ventilatory response to simultaneous changes in the degree of Pco2/H(+) stimulation of both chemoreceptors that is greater (hyperadditive) or less (hypoadditive) than the sum of the responses when stimulation of each set of chemoreceptors is individually altered. Simple summation of the simultaneous changes in stimuli results in no interaction (i.e., additive interaction). Knowledge of the nature of central/peripheral interaction is crucial for determining the physiological significance of newer models of ventilatory control based on recent neuroanatomic observations of the circuitry of key elements of the ventilatory control system. In this review, we will propose that these two sets of receptors are not functionally separate but rather that they are dependent on one another such that the sensitivity of the medullary chemoreceptors is critically determined by input from the peripheral chemoreceptors and possibly other breathing-related reflex afferents as well. The short format of this minireview demands that we be somewhat selective in developing our ideas. We will briefly discuss the limitations of experiments used to study CO(2)/H(+) sensitivity and interaction to date, traditional views of the relative contributions of peripheral and central chemoreceptors to CO(2)/H(+) sensitivity, the evidence for and against different types of interaction, and the effect of tonic carotid chemoreceptor afferent activity on central control mechanisms.
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- H V Forster
- Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226-4801, USA.
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Fortuna MG, Stornetta RL, West GH, Guyenet PG. Activation of the retrotrapezoid nucleus by posterior hypothalamic stimulation. J Physiol 2009; 587:5121-38. [PMID: 19752119 PMCID: PMC2790253 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.176875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2009] [Accepted: 09/08/2009] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) contains chemically defined neurons (ccRTN neurons) that provide a pH-regulated excitatory drive to the central respiratory pattern generator. Here we test whether ccRTN neurons respond to stimulation of the perifornical hypothalamus (PeF), a region that regulates breathing during sleep, stress and exercise. PeF stimulation with gabazine increased blood pressure, phrenic nerve discharge (PND) and the firing rate of ccRTN neurons in isoflurane-anaesthetized rats. Gabazine produced an approximately parallel upward shift of the steady-state relationship between ccRTN neuron firing rate and end-tidal CO(2), and a similar shift of the relationship between PND and end-tidal CO(2). The central respiratory modulation of ccRTN neurons persisted after gabazine without a change in pattern. Morphine administration typically abolished PND and reduced the discharge rate of most ccRTN neurons (by 25% on average). After morphine administration, PeF stimulation activated the ccRTN neurons normally but PND activation and the central respiratory modulation of the ccRTN neurons were severely attenuated. In the same rat preparation, most (58%) ccRTN neurons expressed c-Fos after exposure to hypercapnic hyperoxia (6-7% end-tidal CO(2); 3.5 h; no hypothalamic stimulation) and 62% expressed c-Fos under hypocapnia (approximately 3% end-tidal CO(2)) after PeF stimulation. Under baseline conditions (approximately 3% end-tidal CO(2), hyperoxia, no PeF stimulation) few (11%) ccRTN neurons expressed c-Fos. In summary, most ccRTN neurons are excited by posterior hypothalamic stimulation while retaining their normal response to CNS acidification. ccRTN neurons probably contribute both to the chemical drive of breathing and to the feed-forward control of breathing associated with emotions and or locomotion.
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- Michal G Fortuna
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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