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J Appl Physiol 62: 582-590, 1987;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 62, Issue 2 582-590, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Mechanical function of hyoid muscles during spontaneous breathing in cats

E. van Lunteren, M. A. Haxhiu and N. S. Cherniack

We assessed the mechanical behavior of the geniohyoid and sternohyoid muscles during spontaneous breathing using sonomicrometry in anesthetized cats. When the animals breathed O2, the hyoid muscles either became longer or did not change length (but never shortened) during inspiration. During progressive hyperoxic hypercapnia, transient increases in geniohyoid muscle inspiratory lengthening occurred in many animals; however, at high PCO2 the geniohyoid invariably shortened during inspiration (mean 4.9% of resting length at the end of CO2 rebreathing; P less than 0.001). The PCO2 at which geniohyoid inspiratory lengthening changed to inspiratory shortening was significantly higher than the CO2 threshold for the onset of geniohyoid electrical activity (P less than 0.01). For the sternohyoid muscle, hypercapnia caused inspiratory lengthening in 13 of 17 cats and inspiratory shortening in 4 of 17 cats; on average the sternohyoid lengthened by 1.6% of resting length at the end of CO2 rebreathing (P less than 0.01). Sternohyoid lengthening occurred in spite of this muscle being electrically active. These results suggest that the relationship between hyoid muscle electrical activity and respiratory changes in length is very complex, so that the presence of hyoid muscle electrical activity does not necessarily indicate muscle shortening, and among the geniohyoid and sternohyoid muscles, the geniohyoid has a primary role as a hypopharyngeal dilator in the spontaneously breathing cat, with the sternohyoid muscle acting in an accessory capacity.


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