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J Appl Physiol 67: 1776-1784, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 67, Issue 5 1776-1784, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of hypercapnia and hypoxia on respiratory muscle activation in humans

Y. Takasaki, D. Orr, J. Popkin, A. L. Xie and T. D. Bradley
Sleep Research Laboratory, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We studied the electromyographic activity of the diaphragm (EMGdi) and abdominal external oblique (EMGeo) muscles in response to progressive hypercapnia (HCVR) and hypoxia (HVR) in five normal males. The slopes of the regression lines relating log EMGdi activity to minute volume of ventilation (VE) were steeper during HVR runs than HCVR runs (mean +/- SE, 0.03201 +/- 0.00724 vs. 0.02729 +/- 0.00676, P less than 0.03). Phasic expiratory EMGeo activity was seen in 15 of 15 HCVR runs but in only 6 of 15 HVR runs. Furthermore, the maximum level of VE attained before the onset of EMGeo activity was significantly lower during HCVR runs than during HVR runs (23.1 +/- 2.5 vs. 34.8 +/- 4.01/min, P less than 0.003). We conclude that in awake humans 1) the diaphragm is activated to a greater extent by hypoxia than hypercapnia at a given VE and 2) hypercapnia causes a more consistent recruitment of abdominal expiratory activity at lower VE than does hypoxia.


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