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J Appl Physiol 68: 53-58, 1990;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 68, Issue 1 53-58, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Cervical sympathetic and phrenic nerve responses to progressive brain hypoxia

M. J. Wasicko, J. E. Melton, J. A. Neubauer, N. Krawciw and N. H. Edelman
Department of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick 08903-0019.

To determine if depression of central respiratory output during progressive brain hypoxia (PBH) can be generalized to other brain stem outputs, we examined the effect of PBH on the tonic (tSCS) and inspiratory-synchronous (iSCS) components of preganglionic superior cervical sympathetic (SCS) nerve activity. Peak phrenic and SCS activity were measured in nine anesthetized, paralyzed, peripherally chemodenervated, vagotomized cats. PBH was produced by inhalation of 0.5% CO in 40% O2 while blood pressure and end-tidal CO2 were maintained constant. A progressive reduction in arterial O2 content from 14.3 +/- 0.6 to 4.5 +/- 0.3 vol% caused a 79 +/- 7% depression of peak phrenic activity and an 84 +/- 10% reduction of iSCS activity, but tSCS activity increased 42 +/- 21%. During CO2 rebreathing, iSCS activity increased in parallel with peak phrenic activity while tSCS activity was unchanged. The slopes of the CO2 responses of both phrenic (6.3 +/- 1.2%max/mmHg) and iSCS (4.6 +/- 0.8%max/mmHg) activity were unaffected by PBH. In four of nine hypocapnic and three of nine hypoxic studies, inspiratory activity in the SCS nerve was observed even after completely silencing the phrenic neurogram.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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