Journal of Applied Physiology
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J Appl Physiol 45: 502-511, 1978;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 45, Issue 4 502-511, Copyright © 1978 by American Physiological Society

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Dynamics of respiratory VT response to isocapnic pHa forcing in chemodenervated cats

H. L. Borison, S. F. Gonsalves, S. P. Montgomery and L. E. McCarthy

Arterial blood pH (pHa) was continuously monitored in decerebrate or pentobarbital-anesthetized cats with a rapidly responding hydrogen ion sensor inserted into the aorta. Alveolar carbon dioxide partial pressure and pHa were controlled independently during infusions of 1 N NaHCO3 or 0.5 N HCl into the inferior vena cava. Shifts in pHa up to 0.3 unit were effected isocapnically within 2.5-20 s over a working pHa range of 6.9-7.7. Before carotid sinus neurotomy, average onset latency of the tidal volume (VT) response to acid and alkaline pHa shifts was less than 5 S and the average VT response half time was less than 8.5 s regardless of whether the vagus nerves had been interrupted. After carotid sinus neurotomy, the deltaVT onset latency was approximately doubled, whereas the response half time was prolonged about eightfold on the average. Subsequent vagotomy tended further to increase the responding time lag. Nevertheless, the minimum response latency after peripheral chemodenervation was less than the deltapHa forcing rise time. It is concluded that the central chemoreceptors promptly sense pH change in the arterial blood and that neural processes adjust the time course of the respiratory response through the VT controller.




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