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Ogoh S, Washio T, Stacey BS, Tsukamoto H, Iannetelli A, Owens TS, Calverley TA, Fall L, Marley CJ, Saito S, Watanabe H, Hashimoto T, Ando S, Miyamoto T, Bailey DM. Integrated respiratory chemoreflex-mediated regulation of cerebral blood flow in hypoxia: Implications for oxygen delivery and acute mountain sickness. Exp Physiol 2021; 106:1922-1938. [PMID: 34318560 DOI: 10.1113/ep089660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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NEW FINDINGS What is the central question of this study? To what extent do hypoxia-induced changes in the peripheral and central respiratory chemoreflex modulate anterior and posterior cerebral oxygen delivery, with corresponding implications for susceptibility to acute mountain sickness? What is the main finding and its importance? We provide evidence for site-specific regulation of cerebral blood flow in hypoxia that preserves oxygen delivery in the posterior but not the anterior cerebral circulation, with minimal contribution from the central respiratory chemoreflex. External carotid artery vasodilatation might prove to be an alternative haemodynamic risk factor that predisposes to acute mountain sickness. ABSTRACT The aim of the present study was to determine the extent to which hypoxia-induced changes in the peripheral and central respiratory chemoreflex modulate anterior and posterior cerebral blood flow (CBF) and oxygen delivery (CDO2 ), with corresponding implications for the pathophysiology of the neurological syndrome, acute mountain sickness (AMS). Eight healthy men were randomly assigned single blind to 7 h of passive exposure to both normoxia (21% O2 ) and hypoxia (12% O2 ). The peripheral and central respiratory chemoreflex, internal carotid artery, external carotid artery (ECA) and vertebral artery blood flow (duplex ultrasound) and AMS scores (questionnaires) were measured throughout. A reduction in internal carotid artery CDO2 was observed during hypoxia despite a compensatory elevation in perfusion. In contrast, vertebral artery and ECA CDO2 were preserved, and the former was attributable to a more marked increase in perfusion. Hypoxia was associated with progressive activation of the peripheral respiratory chemoreflex (P < 0.001), whereas the central respiratory chemoreflex remained unchanged (P > 0.05). Symptom severity in participants who developed clinical AMS was positively related to ECA blood flow (Lake Louise score, r = 0.546-0.709, P = 0.004-0.043; Environmental Symptoms Questionnaires-Cerebral symptoms score, r = 0.587-0.771, P = 0.001-0.027, n = 4). Collectively, these findings highlight the site-specific regulation of CBF in hypoxia that maintains CDO2 selectively in the posterior but not the anterior cerebral circulation, with minimal contribution from the central respiratory chemoreflex. Furthermore, ECA vasodilatation might represent a hitherto unexplored haemodynamic risk factor implicated in the pathophysiology of AMS.
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- Shigehiko Ogoh
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan.,Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK.,Faculty of Sport and Health Science, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
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- Faculty of Sport and Health Science, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan
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- Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
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- Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
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Venkat D, Dhillon K, Rowley JA. Effects of High Altitude on Sleep and Respiratory System. CURRENT PULMONOLOGY REPORTS 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s13665-021-00276-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Ivy CM, Scott GR. Evolved changes in breathing and CO 2 sensitivity in deer mice native to high altitudes. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2018; 315:R1027-R1037. [PMID: 30183337 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00220.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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We examined the control of breathing by O2 and CO2 in deer mice native to high altitude to help uncover the physiological specializations used to cope with hypoxia in high-altitude environments. Highland deer mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus) and lowland white-footed mice ( P. leucopus) were bred in captivity at sea level. The first and second generation progeny of each population was raised to adulthood and then acclimated to normoxia or hypobaric hypoxia (12 kPa O2, simulating hypoxia at ~4,300 m) for 6-8 wk. Ventilatory responses to poikilocapnic hypoxia (stepwise reductions in inspired O2) and hypercapnia (stepwise increases in inspired CO2) were then compared between groups. Both generations of lowlanders appeared to exhibit ventilatory acclimatization to hypoxia (VAH), in which hypoxia acclimation enhanced the hypoxic ventilatory response and/or made the breathing pattern more effective (higher tidal volumes and lower breathing frequencies at a given total ventilation). In contrast, hypoxia acclimation had no effect on breathing in either generation of highlanders, and breathing was generally similar to hypoxia-acclimated lowlanders. Therefore, attenuation of VAH may be an evolved feature of highlanders that persists for multiple generations in captivity. Hypoxia acclimation increased CO2 sensitivity of breathing, but in this case, the effect of hypoxia acclimation was similar in highlanders and lowlanders. Our results suggest that highland deer mice have evolved high rates of alveolar ventilation that are unaltered by exposure to chronic hypoxia, but they have preserved ventilatory sensitivity to CO2.
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- Catherine M Ivy
- Department of Biology, McMaster University , Hamilton, ON , Canada
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University , Hamilton, ON , Canada
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Fatemian M, Herigstad M, Croft QPP, Formenti F, Cardenas R, Wheeler C, Smith TG, Friedmannova M, Dorrington KL, Robbins PA. Determinants of ventilation and pulmonary artery pressure during early acclimatization to hypoxia in humans. J Physiol 2016; 594:1197-213. [PMID: 25907672 PMCID: PMC4771781 DOI: 10.1113/jp270061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2014] [Accepted: 04/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Pulmonary ventilation and pulmonary arterial pressure both rise progressively during the first few hours of human acclimatization to hypoxia. These responses are highly variable between individuals, but the origin of this variability is unknown. Here, we sought to determine whether the variabilities between different measures of response to sustained hypoxia were related, which would suggest a common source of variability. Eighty volunteers individually underwent an 8-h isocapnic exposure to hypoxia (end-tidal P(O2)=55 Torr) in a purpose-built chamber. Measurements of ventilation and pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) assessed by Doppler echocardiography were made during the exposure. Before and after the exposure, measurements were made of the ventilatory sensitivities to acute isocapnic hypoxia (G(pO2)) and hyperoxic hypercapnia, the latter divided into peripheral (G(pCO2)) and central (G(cCO2)) components. Substantial acclimatization was observed in both ventilation and PASP, the latter being 40% greater in women than men. No correlation was found between the magnitudes of pulmonary ventilatory and pulmonary vascular responses. For G(pO2), G(pCO2) and G(cC O2), but not the sensitivity of PASP to acute hypoxia, the magnitude of the increase during acclimatization was proportional to the pre-acclimatization value. Additionally, the change in G(pO2) during acclimatization to hypoxia correlated well with most other measures of ventilatory acclimatization. Of the initial measurements prior to sustained hypoxia, only G(pCO2) predicted the subsequent rise in ventilation and change in G(pO2) during acclimatization. We conclude that the magnitudes of the ventilatory and pulmonary vascular responses to sustained hypoxia are predominantly determined by different factors and that the initial G(pCO2) is a modest predictor of ventilatory acclimatization.
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- Marzieh Fatemian
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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Kovtun LT, Voevoda MI. Susceptibility to hypoxia and breathing control changes after short-term cold exposures. Int J Circumpolar Health 2013; 72:21574. [PMID: 23967415 PMCID: PMC3748441 DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background Hypoxia is the reduction of oxygen availability due to external or internal causes. There is large individual variability of response to hypoxia. Objective The aim of this study was to define individual and typological features in susceptibility to hypoxia, its interrelation with hypoxic and hypercapnic ventilatory responses (HVR and HCVR, respectively) and their changes after cold acclimation. Design Twenty-four healthy men were tested. HVR and HCVR were measured by the rebreathing method during hypoxic and hypercapnic tests, respectively. These tests were carried out in thermoneutral conditions before and after cold exposures (nude, at 13°C, 2 h daily, for 10 days). Susceptibility to hypoxia (sSaO2) was determined as haemoglobin saturation slope during hypoxic test. Results It was found that HVR and HCVR significantly increased and susceptibility to hypoxia (sSaO2) tended to decrease after cold acclimation. According to sSaO2 results before cold exposures, the group was divided into 3: Group 1 – with high susceptibility to hypoxia, Group 2 – medium and Group 3 – low susceptibility. Analysis of variances (MANOVA) shows the key role of susceptibility to hypoxia and cold exposures and their interrelation. Posterior analysis (Fisher LSD) showed significant difference in susceptibility to hypoxia between the groups prior to cold acclimation, while HVR and HCVR did not differ between the groups. After cold acclimation, susceptibility to hypoxia was not significantly different between the groups, while HCVR significantly increased in Groups 1 and 3, HVR significantly increased in Group 3 and HCVR, HVR did not change in Group 2. Conclusions Short-term cold exposures caused an increase in functional reserves and improved oxygen supply of tissues in Group 1. Cold exposure hypoxia has caused energy loss in Group 3. Group 2 showed the most appropriate energy conservation reaction mode to cold exposures. No relation was found between the thermoregulation and the susceptibility to hypoxia.
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- Lyudmila T Kovtun
- Federal State Budgetary Institution "Research Institute of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine", Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.
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Chronic Mountain Sickness (CMS) is an important high-altitude (HA) pathology in most mountainous regions of the world. Although its most characteristic sign is excessive erytrocytosis (EE), in the more severe stages of the disease, high-altitude pulmonary hypertension (HAPH), with remodeling of pulmonary arterioles and right ventricular enlargement is commonly found. The degree of ventricular hypertrophy depends on the vasoconstrictor pulmonary response, the intensity of vascular resistance and the level of altitude, and therefore on the degree of hypoxemia. This chapter briefly summarizes the existing data regarding the clinical and pathophysiological features of the cardiopulmonary system in CMS, with emphasis in findings from research in the Andes. The literature shows variability in cardiac output values in CMS, which might be related to the degree of EE. Recent findings have shown that cardiac output (l/min) is lower in CMS when compared with sea-level (SL) dwellers. Mean pulmonary acceleration time (ms) is significantly lower in CMS subjects than in SL and HA natives, and pulmonary vascular resistance index (Wood units) is higher in CMS and HA natives when compared with SL dwellers. Systemic blood pressure has similar values in CMS patients and healthy HA natives, but some differences arise in its control mechanisms. Although CMS individuals have a less effective vasoconstrictor reflex, their tolerance to orthostatic stress is similar to that of healthy HA natives which might be explained in terms of the larger blood volume present in CMS subjects. At present research is directed to design strategies on pharmacological intervention for CMS treatment. Recently, a clinical trial with acetazolamide, in patients with CMS has proven to be effective in increasing mean pulmonary acceleration time and decreasing pulmonary vascular resistance index, which might be indirectly due the reduction of hematocrit.
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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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Ventilatory and cerebrovascular responses to hypercapnia in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea: effect of CPAP therapy. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2008; 165:73-81. [PMID: 18996501 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2008.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2008] [Revised: 10/10/2008] [Accepted: 10/13/2008] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to assess whether the cerebrovascular response to hypercapnia is blunted in OSA patients and if this could alter the ventilatory response to hypercapnia before and after CPAP therapy. We measured the cerebrovascular, cardiovascular and ventilatory responses to hypercapnia in 8 patients with OSA (apnoea-hypopnoea index=101+/-10) before and after 4-6 weeks of CPAP therapy and in 10 control subjects who did not undergo CPAP therapy. The cerebrovascular and ventilatory responses to hypercapnia were not different between OSA and controls at baseline or follow-up. The cardiovascular response to hypercapnia was significantly increased in the OSA group by CPAP therapy (mean arterial pressure response: 1.30+/-0.16 vs. 2.04+/-0.36 mmHg Torr(-1); p=0.007). We conclude that in normocapnic, normotensive OSA patients without cardiovascular disease, the ventilatory, cerebrovascular, and cardiovascular responses to hypercapnia are normal, but the cardiovascular response to hypercapnia is heightened following 1 month of CPAP therapy.
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Herigstad M, Fatemian M, Robbins PA. Respiratory control during air-breathing exercise in humans following an 8 h exposure to hypoxia. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2008; 162:169-75. [PMID: 18602500 PMCID: PMC3764425 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2008.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2008] [Revised: 04/25/2008] [Accepted: 06/03/2008] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Hypoxic exposure lasting a few hours results in an elevation of ventilation and a lowering of end-tidal PCO2(PETCO2) that persists on return to breathing air. We sought to determine whether this increment in ventilation is fixed (hypothesis 1), or whether it increases in proportion to the rise in metabolic rate associated with exercise (hypothesis 2). Ten subjects were studied on two separate days. On 1 day, subjects were exposed to 8 h of isocapnic hypoxia (end-tidal PO2 55 Torr) and on the other day to 8 h of euoxia as a control. Before and 30 min after each exposure, subjects undertook an incremental exercise test. The best fit of a model for the variation in PETCO2 with metabolic rate gave a residual squared error that was ∼20-fold less for hypothesis 2 than for hypothesis 1 (p < 0.005, F-ratio test). We conclude that the alterations in respiratory control induced during early ventilatory acclimatization to hypoxia better reflect those associated with hypothesis 2 rather than hypothesis 1.
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- Mari Herigstad
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Parks Road, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PT, United Kingdom
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Robbins PA. Role of the peripheral chemoreflex in the early stages of ventilatory acclimatization to altitude. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2007; 158:237-42. [PMID: 17434348 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2007.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2006] [Revised: 03/09/2007] [Accepted: 03/11/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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This review of ventilatory acclimatization to altitude/hypoxia (VAH) emphasizes the widely differing timescales that VAH is considered to encompass. The review concludes: (1) that early (24-48h) VAH is unlikely to arise as a reaction to the respiratory alkalosis that is normally associated with exposure to hypoxia; (2) that changes in peripheral chemoreflex function may be sufficiently rapid to explain early VAH; (3) that alterations in gene expression induced by hypoxia through the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) signalling pathway may underlie a major component of VAH; and (4) that compensatory adjustments to acid-base balance in response to the initial respiratory alkalosis may have more significance for the slower changes observed later in VAH.
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- Peter A Robbins
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK.
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Spicuzza L, Porta C, Bramanti A, Maffeis M, Casucci G, Casiraghi N, Bernardi L. Interaction between central-peripheral chemoreflexes and cerebro-cardiovascular control. Clin Auton Res 2006; 15:373-81. [PMID: 16362539 DOI: 10.1007/s10286-005-0284-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2005] [Accepted: 03/24/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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We investigated the interaction between hypoxia and hypercapnia on ventilation and on cerebro-cardio-vascular control. A group of 12 healthy subjects performed rebreathing tests to determine the ventilatory response to hypoxia, at different levels of carbon dioxide (CO(2)), and to normoxic hypercapnia. Oxygen saturation (SaO(2)), end-tidal CO(2) (et-CO(2)), minute ventilation, blood pressure, R-R interval and mid-cerebral artery flow velocity (MCFV) were continuously recorded. The hypoxic ventilatory response significantly increased under hypercapnia and decreased under hypocapnia (slopes L/min/% Sa O(2): -0.33 +/- 0.05, -0.74 +/- 0.02 and -1.59 +/- 0.3, p < 0.0001, in hypocapnia, normocapnia and hypercapnia, respectively). At similar degrees of ventilation, MCFV increased more markedly during normocapnic hypoxia than normoxic hypercapnia; the slopes linking MCFV to hypoxia remained unchanged at increasing levels of et-CO(2), whereas the regression lines were shifted upward. The R-R interval decreased more markedly during normocapnic hypoxia than normoxic hypercapnia and the arterial baroreflex sensitivity was decreased only by hypoxia. Cardiovascular responses to hypoxia were not affected by different levels of et-CO(2). We conclude that concomitant hypoxia and hypercapnia, while increasing ventilation synergistically, exert an additive effect on cerebral blood flow. Increased sympathetic activity (and reduced baroreflex sensitivity) is one of the mechanisms by which hypoxia stimulates cardiac sympathetic activity.
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- Lucia Spicuzza
- Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Catania, Italy
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Somogyi RB, Preiss D, Vesely A, Fisher JA, Duffin J. Changes in respiratory control after 5 days at altitude. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2005; 145:41-52. [PMID: 15652787 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2004.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/09/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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These experiments examined changes in the chemoreflex control of breathing and acid-base balance after 5 days at altitude (3480 m) in six healthy males. The partial pressures of carbon dioxide (P(CO2)) at which ventilation increased during isoxic hypoxic and hyperoxic modified rebreathing tests at sea level fell significantly at altitude by mean+/-S.E.M. of 12.8+/-2.51 mmHg and 9.5+/-1.77 mmHg, respectively, but response slopes above threshold were unchanged. Altitude exposure produced a respiratory alkalosis evidenced by a decrease in mean resting end-tidal P(CO2) from 41+/-0.84 mmHg at sea level to 32+/-2.04 mmHg at altitude, but pH did not increase significantly from its sea level value. Blood samples were analyzed to discover acid-base changes, using a modification of the equations for acid-base balance proposed by [Stewart, P.A., 1983. Modern quantitative acid-base chemistry. Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol. 61, 1444-1461]. While strong ion difference at altitude was not significantly different from its sea level value, albumin concentration was increased significantly from 38.6+/-0.30 g L(-1) to 49.8+/-0.76 g L(-1). We suggest that the respiratory alkalosis was produced by a fall in the chemoreflex threshold and pH was corrected by an elevation in the concentration of weakly dissociated protein anions.
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- Ron B Somogyi
- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Medical Science Bldg, Room 3326, 1 Kings College Circle, Toronto, Ont., Canada, M5S 1A8
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Ainslie PN, Kolb JC, Ide K, Poulin MJ. Effects of five nights of normobaric hypoxia on the ventilatory responses to acute hypoxia and hypercapnia. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2003; 138:193-204. [PMID: 14609510 DOI: 10.1016/s1569-9048(03)00190-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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This study examined the effects of five nights of normobaric hypoxia on ventilatory responses to acute isocapnic hypoxia (AHVR) and hyperoxic hypercapnia (AHCVR). Twelve male subjects (26.6 +/- 4.1 years, standard deviation (S.D.)) slept 8-9 h per day overnight for 5 consecutive days at a simulated altitude of 4,300 m (FiO2= approximately 13.8%). Using the technique of dynamic end-tidal forcing, the AHVR and AHCVR were assessed twice prior to, immediately after, and 5 days following the hypoxic exposure. Immediately following the exposure, AHVR was increased by 1.6 +/- 1.3 L min(-1) %(-1) (P<0.01) when compared with control values. Likewise, after the exposure, ventilation in hyperoxia was increased (P<0.001) and was associated with both an increase in the slope (1.5 +/- 1.4 L min(-1) Torr(-1); P<0.05) and decrease in the intercept (-2.7 +/- 4.3 Torr; P<0.05) of the AHCVR. These results show that five nights of hypoxia can elicit similar perturbations, in both AHVR and AHCVR, as have been reported during more chronic altitude exposures.
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- Philip N Ainslie
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Heritage Medical Research Building Room 209, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
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Izumizaki M, Tamaki M, Suzuki YI, Iwase M, Shirasawa T, Kimura H, Homma I. The affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen affects ventilatory responses in mutant mice with Presbyterian hemoglobinopathy. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2003; 285:R747-53. [PMID: 12829441 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00104.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to test whether chronically enhanced O2 delivery to tissues, without arterial hyperoxia, can change acute ventilatory responses to hypercapnia and hypoxia. The effects of decreased hemoglobin (Hb)-O2 affinity on ventilatory responses during hypercapnia (0, 5, 7, and 9% CO2 in O2) and hypoxia (10 and 15% O2 in N2) were assessed in mutant mice expressing Hb Presbyterian (mutation in the beta-globin gene, beta108 Asn --> Lys). O2 consumption during normoxia, measured via open-circuit methods, was significantly higher in the mutant mice than in wild-type mice. Respiratory measurements were conducted with a whole body, unrestrained, single-chamber plethysmograph under conscious conditions. During hypercapnia, there was no difference between the slopes of the hypercapnic ventilatory responses, whereas minute ventilation at the same levels of arterial PCO2 was lower in the Presbyterian mice than in the wild-type mice. During both hypoxic exposures, ventilatory responses were blunted in the mutant mice compared with responses in the wild-type mice. The effects of brief hyperoxia exposure (100% O2) after 10% hypoxia on ventilation were examined in anesthetized, spontaneously breathing mice with a double-chamber plethysmograph. No significant difference was found in ventilatory responses to brief hypoxia between both groups of mice, indicating possible involvement of central mechanisms in blunted ventilatory responses to hypoxia in Presbyterian mice. We conclude that chronically enhanced O2 delivery to peripheral tissues can reduce ventilation during acute hypercapnic and hypoxic exposures.
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- Masahiko Izumizaki
- Department of Physiology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan
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Chronic hypoxia is associated with elevated sympathetic activity and hypertension in patients with chronic pulmonary obstructive disease. However, the effect of chronic hypoxia on systemic and regional sympathetic activity in healthy humans remains unknown. To determine if chronic hypoxia in healthy humans is associated with hyperactivity of the sympathetic system, we measured intra-arterial blood pressure, arterial blood gases, systemic and skeletal muscle noradrenaline (norepinephrine) spillover and vascular conductances in nine Danish lowlanders at sea level and after 9 weeks of exposure at 5260 m. Mean blood pressure was 28 % higher at altitude (P < 0.01) due to increases in both systolic (18 % higher, P < 0.05) and diastolic (41 % higher, P < 0.001) blood pressures. Cardiac output and leg blood flow were not altered by chronic hypoxia, but systemic vascular conductance was reduced by 30 % (P < 0.05). Plasma arterial noradrenaline (NA) and adrenaline concentrations were 3.7- and 2.4-fold higher at altitude, respectively (P < 0.05). The elevation of plasma arterial NA concentration was caused by a 3.8-fold higher whole-body NA release (P < 0.001) since whole-body noradrenaline clearance was similar in both conditions. Leg NA spillover was increased similarly (x 3.2, P < 0.05). These changes occurred despite the fact that systemic O2 delivery was greater after altitude acclimatisation than at sea level, due to 37 % higher blood haemoglobin concentration. In summary, this study shows that chronic hypoxia causes marked activation of the sympathetic nervous system in healthy humans and increased systemic arterial pressure, despite normalisation of the arterial O2 content with acclimatisation.
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Fatemian M, Nieuwenhuijs DJF, Teppema LJ, Meinesz S, van der Mey AGL, Dahan A, Robbins PA. The respiratory response to carbon dioxide in humans with unilateral and bilateral resections of the carotid bodies. J Physiol 2003; 549:965-73. [PMID: 12717011 PMCID: PMC2342971 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.042259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2003] [Accepted: 04/07/2003] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
Abstract
The acute hypercapnic ventilatory response (AHCVR) arises from both peripheral and central chemoreflexes. In humans, one technique for identifying the separate contributions of these chemoreflexes to AHCVR has been to associate the rapid component of AHCVR with the peripheral chemoreflex and the slow component with the central chemoreflex. Our first aim was to validate this technique further by determining whether a single slow component was sufficient to describe AHCVR in patients with bilateral carotid body resections (BR) for glomus cell tumours. Our second aim was to determine whether the slow component of AHCVR was diminished following carotid body resection as has been suggested by studies in experimental animals. Seven BR subjects were studied together with seven subjects with unilateral resections (UR) and seven healthy controls. A multifrequency binary sequence in end-tidal PCO2 was employed to stimulate ventilation dynamically under conditions of both euoxia and mild hypoxia. Both two- and one-compartment models of AHCVR were fitted to the data. For BR subjects, the two-compartment model fitted significantly better on 1 out of 13 occasions compared with 22 out of 28 occasions for the other subjects. Average values for the chemoreflex sensitivity of the slow component of AHCVR differed significantly (P < 0.05) between the groups and were 0.95, 1.38 and 1.50 l min-1 Torr-1 for BR, UR and control subjects, respectively. We conclude that, without the peripheral chemoreflex, AHCVR is adequately described by a single slow component and that BR subjects have sensitivities for the slow component that are lower than those of control subjects.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marzieh Fatemian
- University Laboratory of Physiology, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK
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Fatemian M, Gamboa A, Léon-Velarde F, Rivera-Ch M, Palacios JA, Robbins PA. Selected contribution: Ventilatory response to CO2 in high-altitude natives and patients with chronic mountain sickness. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2003; 94:1279-87; discussion 1253-4. [PMID: 12571150 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00859.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The ventilatory responses to CO(2) of high-altitude (HA) natives and patients with chronic mountain sickness (CMS) were studied and compared with sea-level (SL) natives living at SL. A multifrequency binary sequence (MFBS) in end-tidal Pco(2) was employed to separate the fast (peripheral) and slow (central) components of the chemoreflex response. MFBS was imposed against a background of both euoxia (end-tidal Po(2) of 100 Torr) and hypoxia (52.5 Torr). Both total and central chemoreflex sensitivity to CO(2) in euoxia were higher in HA and CMS subjects compared with SL subjects. Peripheral chemoreflex sensitivity to CO(2) in euoxia was higher in HA subjects than in SL subjects. Hypoxia induced a greater increase in total chemoreflex sensitivity to CO(2) in SL subjects than in HA and CMS subjects, but peripheral chemoreflex sensitivity to CO(2) in hypoxia was no greater in SL subjects than in HA and CMS subjects. Values for the slow (central) time constant were significantly greater for HA and CMS subjects than for SL subjects.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marzieh Fatemian
- University Laboratory of Physiology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PT, United Kingdom
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Mahamed S, Cunningham DA, Duffin J. Changes in respiratory control after three hours of isocapnic hypoxia in humans. J Physiol 2003; 547:271-81. [PMID: 12562969 PMCID: PMC2342602 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.030965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Despite the obvious role of hypoxia in eliciting respiratory acclimatisation in humans, the function of the peripheral chemoreflex is uncertain. We investigated this uncertainty using 3 h of isocapnic hypoxia as a stimulus (end-tidal PCO2, 0.5-1.0 mmHg above eucapnia; end-tidal PO2, 50 mmHg), hypothesising that this stimulus would induce an enhancement of the peripheral chemoreflex ventilatory response to hypoxia. Current evidence conflicts as to whether this enhancement is mediated by an increase in the sensitivity or a decrease in the threshold of the peripheral chemoreflex ventilatory response to carbon dioxide. Employing a modified rebreathing technique to assess chemoreflex function, we found evidence of the latter in nine healthy volunteers (six male, three female). Testing consisted of pairs of isoxic rebreathing tests at high and low levels of oxygen, performed before, immediately after and 1 h after a 3 h isocapnic hypoxic exposure. No parameters changed significantly in the high-oxygen rebreathing tests. In the low-oxygen rebreathing tests there were no changes in non-chemoreflex ventilatory drives, or in the sensitivity to carbon dioxide, but the carbon dioxide response threshold decreased (approximately 1.5 mmHg) immediately after exposure, and the decrease persisted for 1 h (one-way repeated-measures ANOVA; P < 0.05). We repeated the protocol in five of the original nine volunteers, but this time exposing them to isocapnic normoxia. No trends or significant changes were observed in any of the rebreathing test parameters. These findings demonstrate that in the earliest stages of acclimatisation, there is a decrease in the threshold of the peripheral chemoreflex response to carbon dioxide, which persists for at least 1 h after the return to normoxia. We suggest that ventilatory acclimatisation to hypoxia results from this decreased threshold, reflecting an increase in the activity of the peripheral chemoreflex.
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- Safraaz Mahamed
- Department of Anaesthesia, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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