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J Appl Physiol 61: 344-352, 1986;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 61, Issue 1 344-352, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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Responses of pulmonary stretch receptors during ramp inflations of the lung

A. I. Pack, M. D. Ogilvie, R. O. Davies and R. J. Galante

Studies were conducted in anesthetized paralyzed dogs to determine how the dynamic and proportional sensitivity of pulmonary stretch receptors change during lung inflation. The firing of each receptor was examined at multiple levels of static transpulmonary pressure and during multiple identical inflations at each of several rates. The averaged response of the receptor was computed and receptor activity related to transpulmonary pressure. On the basis of a quantitative criterion, employed to distinguish type I from type II receptors, the receptors could not be divided into distinct subpopulations. Thus all receptors were treated as coming from a single population. For all receptors we observed that their proportional sensitivity (increases in firing produced by increases in lung expansion at a constant rate of inflation) declined as the lung was inflated. In contrast, the dynamic sensitivity (increases in firing produced by increased rates of inflation at constant transpulmonary pressure) increased or remained relatively constant with increasing lung expansion. Thus, as inflation volume increases, the pulmonary stretch receptor acts increasingly as a rate receptor. The rate of inflation may have a more important role in control of the inspiratory duration than previously realized.


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