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J Appl Physiol 71: 1123-1128, 1991;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 71, Issue 3 1123-1128, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Dynamic response of the peripheral chemoreflex loop to changes in end-tidal O2

A. Berkenbosch, J. DeGoede, D. S. Ward, C. N. Olievier and J. VanHartevelt
Department of Physiology and Physiological Physics, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

We studied the peripheral ventilatory response dynamics to changes in end-tidal O2 tension (PETO2) in 13 cats anesthetized with alpha-chloralose-urethan. The arterial O2 tension in the medulla oblongata was kept constant using the technique of artificial perfusion of the brain stem. At constant end-tidal CO2 tension, 72 ventilatory on-responses due to stepwise changes in PETO2 from hyperoxia (45-55 kPa) to hypoxia (4.7-9.0 kPa) and 62 ventilatory off-responses due to changes from hypoxia to hyperoxia were assessed. We fitted two exponential functions with the same time delay to the breath-by-breath ventilation and found a fast and a slow component in 85% of the ventilatory on-responses and in 76% of the off-responses. The time constant of the fast component of the ventilatory on-response was 1.6 +/- 1.5 (SD) s, and that of the off-response was 2.4 +/- 1.3 s; the gain of the on-response was smaller than that of the off-response (P = 0.020). For the slow component, the time constant of the on-response (72.6 +/- 36.4 s) was larger (P = 0.028) than that of the off-response (43.7 +/- 28.3 s), whereas the gain of the on-response exceeded that of the off-response (P = 0.031). We conclude that the ventilatory response of the peripheral chemoreflex loop to stepwise changes in PETO2 contains a fast and a slow component.


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