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J Appl Physiol 51: 1552-1561, 1981;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 51, Issue 6 1552-1561, Copyright © 1981 by American Physiological Society

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Activity of respiratory muscles in upright and recumbent humans

W. S. Druz and J. T. Sharp

It is established that during tidal breathing the rib cage expands more than the abdomen in the upright posture, whereas the reverse is usually true in the supine posture. To explore the reasons for this, we studied nine normal subjects in the supine, standing, and sitting postures, measuring thoracoabdominal movement with magnetometers and respiratory muscle activity via integrated electromyograms. In eight of the subjects, gastric and esophageal pressures and diaphragmatic electromyograms via esophageal electrodes were also measured. In the upright postures, there was generally more phasic and tonic activity in the scalene, sternocleidomastoid, and parasternal intercostal muscles. The diaphragm showed more phasic (but not more tonic) activity in the upright postures, and the abdominal oblique muscle showed more tonic (but not phasic) activity in the standing posture. Relative to the esophageal pressure change with inspiration, the inspiratory gastric pressure change was greater in the upright than in the supine posture. We conclude that the increased rib cage motion characteristic of the upright posture owes to a combination of increased activation of rib cage inspiratory muscles plus greater activation of the diaphragm that, together with a stiffened abdomen, acts to move the rib cage more effectively.


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