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J Appl Physiol 64: 1451-1456, 1988;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 64, Issue 4 1451-1456, Copyright © 1988 by American Physiological Society

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Carbon dioxide effects on the ventilatory response to sustained hypoxia

P. A. Easton and N. R. Anthonisen
Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

We examined the interrelation between CO2 and the ventilatory response to moderate (80% arterial saturation) sustained hypoxia in normal young adults. On a background of continuous CO2-stimulated hyperventilation, hypoxia was introduced and sustained for 25 min. Initially, with the introduction of hypoxia onto hypercapnia, there was a brisk additional increase in inspiratory minute ventilation (VI) to 284% of resting VI, but the response was not sustained and hypoxic VI declined by 36% to a level intermediate between the initial increase and the preexisting hypercapnic hyperventilation. Through the continuous hypercapnia, the changes in hypoxic ventilation resulted from significant alterations in tidal volume (VT) and mean inspiratory flow (VT/TI) without changes in respiratory timing. In another experiment, sustained hypoxia was introduced on the usual background of room air, either with isocapnia or without maintenance of end-tidal CO2 (ETCO2) (poikilocapnic hypoxia). Regardless of the degree of maintenance of ETCO2, during 25 min of sustained hypoxia, VI showed an initial brisk increase and then declined by 35-40% of resting VI to a level intermediate between the initial response and resting room air VI. For both isocapnia and poikilocapnic conditions, the attenuation of VI was an expression of a diminished VT. Thus the decline in ventilation with sustained hypoxia occurred regardless of the background ETCO2, suggesting that the mechanism underlying the hypoxic decline is independent of CO2.


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