Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 59, Issue 2 492-501, Copyright © 1985 by American Physiological Society

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Total respiratory input and transfer impedances in humans

R. Peslin, C. Duvivier and C. Gallina

Total respiratory input (Zrs,in) and transfer (Zrs,tr) impedances were obtained from 4 to 30 Hz in 10 healthy males by simultaneously measuring mouth and chest flow while applying pseudo-random pressure variations at the mouth. Compared with Zrs,in, the real part of Zrs,tr was larger up to 10 Hz but exhibited a much stronger negative frequency dependence. The imaginary part was larger at all frequencies, with a resonant frequency (fn) at 6.0 +/- 0.8 Hz compared with 8.2 +/- 2.9 Hz for Zrs,in. The two impedances were analyzed with a model featuring airway resistance and inertance, alveolar gas compressibility, and tissue resistance, inertance, and compliance. A good fit was generally obtained but, in most cases, with a different partitioning of resistance between airway and tissue for Zrs,in and Zrs,tr. The data were also used to compute separately airway and tissue (Zt) impedances. In most subjects Zt could not be properly fitted with a simple resistance-inertance-compliance unit and was consistent with a slow (fn = 7.4 +/- 2.3 Hz) overdamped compartment in parallel with a fast (fn = 37.1 +/- 5.6 Hz) underdamped one.

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