Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 56, Issue 1 84-90, Copyright © 1984 by American Physiological Society

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Diphasic ventilatory response to hypoxia in newborn lambs

M. A. Bureau, R. Zinman, P. Foulon and R. Begin

The ventilatory response of newborn lambs to hypoxemia was evaluated in two groups of seven awake lambs studied at 2 and 7 days of life. Minute ventilation (VE) and airway occlusion pressure (P0.1) were monitored as the animals were exposed in sequence to room air, 12% O2 (15 min), 7% O2 (15 min), and room air. On 12 and 7% O2, 2-day-old lambs experienced a brisk hyperventilation followed by a VE depression, previously described in newborns of other species (diphasic response). The 7-day-old lambs had a clear diphasic VE response only on 7% O2 breathing. In the 2-day-old lambs, at the time of the relative VE depression to 12% O2, the respiratory centers showed a persisting responsiveness to further hypoxia; switching to 7% O2 caused a brisk increase in VE and P0.1 of 70 and 130%, respectively, which was followed again by a VE depression. The magnitude of the immediate VE response to hypoxia, taken as an index of the chemoreceptor strength, was inversely related to the magnitude of the VE depression (R = 0.81, P less than 0.001). It was concluded that 1) lambs as well as other neonates have an age-related diphasic VE response to hypoxia; 2) at the time of the VE depression, the respiratory centers maintain their responsiveness to further acute hypoxia; and 3) the weakness of the chemoreceptors in the newborn is a major determinant of the diphasic response.

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