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J Appl Physiol 68: 672-677, 1990;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 68, Issue 2 672-677, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Upper airway muscle and diaphragm responses to hypoxia in the piglet

R. J. Martin, E. van Lunteren, M. A. Haxhiu and W. A. Carlo
Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.

The neonatal ventilatory response to hypoxia is characterized by initial transient stimulation and subsequent respiratory depression. It is unknown, however, whether this response is also exhibited by the upper airway muscles that regulate nasal, laryngeal, and pharyngeal patency. We therefore compared electromyogram (EMG) amplitudes and minute EMGs for the diaphragm (DIA), alae nasi (AN), posterior cricoarytenoid (PCA), and genioglossus (GG) muscles in 12 anesthetized spontaneously breathing piglets during inhalation of 12% O2 over 10 min. Minute EMG for the DIA responded to hypoxia with an initial transient increase and subsequent return to prehypoxia levels by 10 min. Hypoxia also stimulated all three upper airway muscles. In contrast to the DIA EMG, however, AN, PCA, and GG EMGs all remained significantly above prehypoxia levels after 10 min of hypoxia. We have thus demonstrated that the initial stimulation and subsequent depression of the DIA EMG after 12% O2 inhalation contrast with the sustained increase in AN, PCA, and GG EMGs during hypoxia. We speculate that 1) central inhibition during neonatal hypoxia is primarily distributed to the motoneuron pools regulating DIA activation and 2) peripheral chemoreceptor stimulation and/or central disinhibition induced by hypoxia preferentially influence those motoneuron pools that regulate upper airway muscle activation, causing the different hypoxic responses of these muscle groups in the young piglet.


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