Decline in peripheral chemoreceptor excitatory stimulation during acute hypoxia in the lamb
- 1 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Applied Physiology
- Vol. 63 (2), 795-802
- https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1987.63.2.795
Abstract
Chemoreceptor function was studied in eight 2- to 3-day-old unanesthetized lambs to sequentially assess hypoxic chemoreflex strength during an 18-min exposure to hypoxia [inspired O2 fraction (FIO2) = 0.08]. The immediate ventilatory (VE) drop in response to five breaths of pure O2 was measured at 3, 7, and 15 min during hypoxia. Each lamb was studied again at 10–11 days of age. At 2–3 days of age VE increased, with the onset of hypoxia, from 658 +/- 133 (SD) ml.min-1 X kg-1 to a peak of 1,124 +/- 177 ml.min-1 X kg-1. A dampening of the VE response then occurred, with a mean decline in VE of 319 ml.min-1 X kg-1 over the 18-min hypoxia period. Each pure O2 test (Dejours test) resulted in an abrupt fall in VE (delta VEDejours). This VE drop was 937 +/- 163, 868 +/- 244, and 707 +/- 120 ml.min-1 X kg-1 at 3, 7, and 15 min of hypoxia, respectively. Comparing the three O2 tests, delta VEDejours was significantly decreased by 15 min, indicating a loss of about one-fourth of the O2 chemoreflex drive during hypoxia. Testing at 10–11 days of age revealed a smaller VE decline during hypoxia. O2 tests at the beginning and end of the hypoxic period were not significantly different, indicating a smaller loss of hypoxic chemoreflex drive in the more mature animals.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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