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1 School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, 2 Department of Physiology, and University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Experiments were performed to measure the apneic threshold for CO2 and its fundamental properties in anesthetized rats under steady-state conditions. Breathing was detected from diaphragmatic electromyogram activity. Mechanical hyperventilation resulted in apnea once arterial PCO2 (PaCO2) had fallen far enough. Apnea was not a reflex response to lung inflation because it did not occur immediately, was not prevented by vagotomy, and was reversed by raising PaCO2 without changing mechanical hyperventilation. The apneic threshold was measured by hyperventilating rats mechanically with O2 until apnea had occurred and then raising PaCO2 at constant hyperventilation until breathing reappeared. The mean PaCO2 level of the apneic threshold in 42 rats was 32.8 ± 0.4 Torr. The level of the threshold did not depend on the volume at which the lungs were inflated. The level of the threshold, under steady-state conditions, was the same when approached from hypocapnia as from eupnea. The level of the threshold could be raised by 9 Torr by chronic elevation of the eupneic PaCO2 level by 18 Torr.
hypocapnia; breathing; carbon dioxide
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