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J Appl Physiol 72: 1355-1361, 1992;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 72, Issue 4 1355-1361, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Vagal contributions to respiratory muscle activity during eupnea in the awake dog

D. M. Ainsworth, C. A. Smith, B. D. Johnson, S. W. Eicker, K. S. Henderson and J. A. Dempsey
John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53705.

We examined the effects of reversible vagal cooling on respiratory muscle activities in awake chronically instrumented tracheotomized dogs. We specifically analyzed electromyographic (EMG) activity and its ventilatory correlates, end-expiratory lung volume (EELV) and diaphragmatic resting length via sonomicrometry. Elimination of phasic and tonic mechanoreceptor activity by vagal cooling doubled the EMG activity of the costal, crural, and parasternal muscles, with activation occurring sooner relative to the onset of inspiratory flow. Diaphragmatic postinspiration inspiratory activity in the intact dog coincided with a brief mechanical shortening of the diaphragm during early expiration; vagal blockade removed both the electrical activity and the mechanical shortening. Vagal blockade also doubled the EMG activity of a rib cage expiratory muscle, the triangularis sterni, but reduced that of an abdominal expiratory muscle, the transversus abdominis. Within-breath electrical activity of both muscles occurred sooner relative to the onset of expiratory flow during vagal blockade. Vagal cooling was also associated with a 12% increase in EELV and a 5% decrease in end-expiratory resting length of the diaphragm. We conclude that vagal input significantly modulates inspiratory and expiratory muscle activities, which help regulate EELV efficiently and optimize diaphragmatic length during eupneic breathing in the awake dog.


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