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J Appl Physiol 71: 425-431, 1991;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 71, Issue 2 425-431, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Response of slowly adapting pulmonary stretch receptors to reduced lung compliance

J. Yu, T. E. Pisarri, J. C. Coleridge and H. M. Coleridge
Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0130.

We examined the steady-state response of slowly adapting pulmonary stretch receptors (SAPSRs) to reduced lung compliance in open-chest cats with lungs ventilated at eupneic rate and tidal volume (VT) and with a positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) of 3-4 cmH2O. Transient removal of PEEP decreased compliance by approximately 30% and increased transpulmonary pressure (Ptp) by 1-2.5 cmH2O. Reduction of compliance significantly decreased SAPSR discharge in deflation and caused a small increase in discharge at the peak of inflation; it had little effect on discharge averaged over the ventilatory cycle. Increasing VT to produce a comparable increase in Ptp significantly increased peak discharge. Thus unlike rapidly adapting receptors, whose discharge is increased more effectively by reduced compliance than by increased VT, SAPSRs are stimulated by increased VT but not by reduced compliance. We speculate that the most consistent effect of reduced compliance on SAPSRs (the decrease in deflation discharge) was due to the decreased time constant for deflation in the stiffer lung. This alteration in firing may contribute to the tachypnea evoked as the lungs become stiffer.


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