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J Appl Physiol 50: 78-83, 1981;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 50, Issue 1 78-83, Copyright © 1981 by American Physiological Society

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Perception of changes in breathing in normal human subjects

N. Wolkove, M. D. Altose, S. G. Kelsen, P. G. Kondapalli and N. S. Cherniack

Respiratory sensation was evaluated in normal subjects from their ability to quantitate changes in tidal volume. Subjects attempted to duplicate or double tidal volumes of different sizes while breathing freely or against a resistive or elastic load. When the mechanical conditions during control and test breaths were constant, tidal volume duplication was accomplished with an error of approximately 100 ml, regardless of the control volume. The error in doubling, however, increased progressively with increasing control tidal volume. There was a greater error in both volume duplication and doubling when the mechanical conditions between control and test breaths were changed. When test breaths against a load followed unloaded control breaths, tidal volume failed to double, but intrathoracic pressure changes twice exceeded control values. Conversely, when unloaded test breaths followed loaded control breaths, pressure changes underwent less than a twofold increase while tidal volume more than doubled. The results indicate that tidal volume changes are normally sensed with considerable accuracy and suggest that both tidal volume per se, as well as the forces generated by the respiratory muscles, are used in the estimation of tidal volume changes.


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