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Plethysmographic estimation of thoracic gas volume in apneic mice

¹Department of Medical Informatics and Engineering and ²Institute of Surgical Research, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary; and ³Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Submitted 5 January 2006 ; accepted in final form 19 April 2006

Electrical stimulation of intercostal muscles was employed to measure thoracic gas volume (TGV) during airway occlusion in the absence of respiratory effort at different levels of lung inflation. In 15 tracheostomized and mechanically ventilated CBA/Ca mice, the value of TGV obtained from the spontaneous breathing effort available in the early phase of the experiments (TGVsp) was compared with those resulting from muscle stimulation (TGVst) at transrespiratory pressures of 0, 10, and 20 cmH₂O. A very strong correlation (r² = 0.97) was found, although with a systematically (16%) higher estimation of TGVst relative to TGVsp, attributable to the different durations of the stimulated (50 ms) and spontaneous (200 ms) contractions. Measurements of TGVst before and after injections of 0.2, 0.4, and 0.6 ml of nitrogen into the lungs in six mice resulted in good agreement between the change in TGVst and the injected volume (r² = 0.98). In four mice, TGVsp and TGVst were compared at end expiration with air or a helium-oxygen mixture to confirm the validity of isothermal compression in the alveolar gas. The TGVst values measured at zero transrespiratory pressure in all CBA/Ca mice [0.29 ± 0.05 (SD) ml] and in C57BL/6 (N = 6; 0.34 ± 0.08 ml) and BALB/c (N = 6; 0.28 ± 0.06 ml) mice were in agreement with functional residual capacity values from previous studies in which different techniques were used. This method is particularly useful when TGV is to be determined in the absence of breathing activity, when it must be known at any level of lung inflation or under non-steady-state conditions, such as during pharmaceutical interventions.

functional residual capacity; lung volume; Boyle's law

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