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J Appl Physiol 68: 1555-1561, 1990;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 68, Issue 4 1555-1561, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Tracheal smooth muscle responses to upper airway pressure in conscious dogs

L. Plowman, P. H. Edwards, D. C. Lauff, M. Berthon-Jones and C. E. Sullivan
David Read Laboratory, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

We studied the influence of changes in pressure applied to the isolated upper airway of four conscious dogs on tracheal smooth muscle tone and breathing pattern. The dogs were prepared with a permanent side-hole tracheal stoma and were trained to sleep with a snout mask hermetically sealed in place while breathing through a cuffed endotracheal tube inserted distally into the tracheal stoma. Changes in tracheal smooth muscle tone were continuously monitored by measuring the pressure in the water-filled cuff that distended the tracheal airway while pressure changes were introduced in the upper airway independently of breathing. Increases or decreases of upper airway pressure (+/- 10 cmH2O) had little effect on tracheal airway smooth muscle tone. In contrast, an oscillating pressure wave at 30 Hz and +/- 3 cmH2O amplitude (or -3 to -7 cmH2O amplitude) caused a marked increase in tracheal airway smooth muscle tone. An elevated tracheal airway tone could be maintained over many minutes when the oscillating pressure stimulus was pulsed so that there was a cycle of 0.5 s on, 0.5 s off. This stimulus did not change the functional residual capacity but resulted in coughing, swallowing, or sighing in 54% of the tests. In the remaining tests, the pressure stimulus produced a rapid, shallow, and erratic breathing pattern. The tracheal airway constrictor response (but not the ventilatory response) was completely abolished by intravenous atropine. We suggest that upper airway vibration is a potentially powerful mechanism of reflex airway smooth muscle constriction.


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