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J Appl Physiol 39: 911-915, 1975;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 39, Issue 6 911-915, Copyright © 1975 by American Physiological Society

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Depression of ventilation hypoxia in man

R. B. Weiskoff and R. A. Gabel

In five normal male subjects, ventilation, PaO2, and PaCO2 were measured during the rapid progressive isocapnic production of hypoxia (5 min) and during the equally rapid isocapnic reversal of hypoxia. At similar PaO2, PaCO2, and pH, ventilation was less at a time when alveolar PO2 was increasing than when alveolar PO2 was decreasing. We interpret these results as showing that human ventilation is depressed by mild-to-moderate hypoxia (40-60 Torr), that such depression is probably central, and that it is ordinarily masked by peripheral chemoreceptor stimulation. We are not able to distinguish whether the ventilatory depression is caused by decreased central chemoreceptor PCO2 due to an increase in cerebral flow, direct hypoxic depressing of the central respiratory mechanism, or both.


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