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J Appl Physiol 104: 1287-1294, 2008. First published January 10, 2008; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00644.2007
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Comparative analysis of neonatal and adult rat carotid body responses to chronic intermittent hypoxia

Anita Pawar,1,3 Ying-Jie Peng,3 Frank J. Jacono,2 and Nanduri R. Prabhakar1,3

Departments of 1Physiology and Biophysics and 2Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; and 3Center for Systems Biology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Submitted 15 June 2007 ; accepted in final form 10 January 2008

Previous studies suggest that carotid body responses to long-term changes in environmental oxygen differ between neonates and adults. In the present study we tested the hypothesis that the effects of chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) on the carotid body differ between neonates and adult rats. Experiments were performed on neonatal (1–10 days) and adult (6–8 wk) males exposed either to CIH (9 episodes/h; 8 h/day) or to normoxia. Sensory activity was recorded from ex vivo carotid bodies. CIH augmented the hypoxic sensory response (HSR) in both groups. The magnitude of CIH-evoked hypoxic sensitization was significantly greater in neonates than in adults. Seventy-two episodes of CIH were sufficient to evoke hypoxic sensitization in neonates, whereas as many as 720 CIH episodes were required in adults, suggesting that neonatal carotid bodies are more sensitive to CIH than adult carotid bodies. CIH-induced hypoxic sensitization was reversed in adult rats after reexposure to 10 days of normoxia, whereas the effects of neonatal CIH persisted into adult life (2 mo). Acute intermittent hypoxia (IH) evoked sensory long-term facilitation of the carotid body activity (sensory LTF, i.e., increased baseline neural activity following acute IH) in CIH-exposed adults but not in neonates. The effects of CIH were associated with hyperplasia of glomus cells in neonatal but not in adult carotid bodies. These observations demonstrate that responses to CIH differ between neonates and adults with regard to the magnitude of sensitization of HSR, susceptibility to CIH, induction of sensory LTF, reversibility of the responses, and morphological remodeling of the chemoreceptor tissue.

sensory long-term facilitation; hyperplasia; glomus cells


Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: N. R. Prabhakar, Center for Systems Biology, Dept. of Medicine, The Univ. of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland, MC, Chicago, IL 60637 (e-mail: nprabhak{at}medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu)




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