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Journal of Applied Physiology
Vol. 81, No. 6, pp. 2349-2357, December 1996
CONTROL OF BREATHING, CIRCULATION, AND TEMPERATURE

Pulmonary chemoreflexes elicited by intravenous injection of lactic acid in anesthetized rats

Lu-Yuan Lee, Robert F. Morton, and Jan M. Lundberg

Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0084; and Department of Pharmacology, Karolinska Institut, S-104 01 Stockholm, Sweden

Received 18 April 1996; accepted in final form 22 July 1996.

Lee, Lu-Yuan, Robert F. Morton, and Jan M. Lundberg. Pulmonary chemoreflexes elicited by intravenous injection of lactic acid in anesthetized rats. J. Appl. Physiol. 81(6): 2349-2357, 1996.---Experiments were carried out to characterize the cardiorespiratory reflex responses to intravenous injection of lactic acid and to determine the involvement of vagal bronchopulmonary C-fiber afferents in eliciting these responses in anesthetized rats. Bolus injection of lactic acid (0.2 mmol/kg iv) immediately elicited apnea, bradycardia, and hypotension, which were then followed by a sustained hyperpnea. The immediate apneic and bradycardiac responses to lactic acid were completely abolished by bilateral vagotomy and were absent when the same dose of lactic acid was injected into the left ventricle. The subsequent hyperpneic response was substantially attenuated by denervation of carotid body chemoreceptors. After a perineural capsaicin treatment of both vagus nerves to block the conduction of C fibers, lactic acid no longer evoked the immediate apnea and bradycardia, whereas the hyperpneic response became more pronounced and sustained, presumably because of the removal of the inhibitory effect on breathing mediated by pulmonary C-fiber activation. Single-unit electrophysiological recording showed that intravenous injection of lactic acid consistently evoked an abrupt and intense burst of discharge from the vagal C-fiber afferent endings in the lungs. In conclusion, the cardiorespiratory depressor responses induced by lactic acid are predominantly elicited by activation of vagal pulmonary C fibers.

pulmonary C fibers; vagal reflexes; apnea; hyperpnea; capsaicin; perineural capsaicin treatment


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