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J Appl Physiol 56: 207-210, 1984;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 56, Issue 1 207-210, Copyright © 1984 by American Physiological Society

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Variable inhibition by falling CO2 of hypoxic ventilatory response in humans

L. G. Moore, S. Y. Huang, R. E. McCullough, J. B. Sampson, J. T. Maher, J. V. Weil, R. F. Grover, J. K. Alexander and J. T. Reeves

Acute hypoxia stimulates an increase in ventilation but the resulting hypocapnia limits the magnitude of the increase. Thus the hypoxic ventilatory response is usually measured during isocapnia, but this may not reflect events at high altitude. We hypothesized that the degree of inhibition by hypocapnia might depend on individual ventilatory response to CO2 and thus vary between persons. To test this hypothesis we compared the isocapnic hypoxic ventilatory response (end-tidal PCO2 maintained by CO2 addition) with the response in which CO2 was not added and the end-tidal PCO2 fell to a variable extent (poikilocapnic hypoxia). In 14 healthy persons we found that the poikilocapnic hypoxic ventilatory response was determined by two factors: sensitivity to isocapnic hypoxia acting to increase ventilation and sensitivity to CO2 acting to decrease the hypoxic ventilatory response. The ventilatory response to poikilocapnic hypoxia correlated with but was generally less than the isocapnic hypoxic response. The magnitude of the difference between them related to the hypercapnic response. Further, the results suggested that the CO2 response in the high CO2 range related to ventilatory events in the low CO2 range. Thus the magnitude of ventilatory inhibition by hypocapnia may depend on individual ventilatory responsiveness to CO2.


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