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J Appl Physiol 88: 1421-1430, 2000;
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Vol. 88, Issue 4, 1421-1430, April 2000

Sustained microgravity reduces the human ventilatory response to hypoxia but not to hypercapnia

G. Kim Prisk, Ann R. Elliott, and John B. West

Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0931

We measured the isocapnic hypoxic ventilatory response and the hypercapnic ventilatory response by using rebreathing techniques in five normal subjects (ages 37-47 yr) before, during, and after 16 days of exposure to microgravity (µG). Control measurements were performed with the subjects in the standing and supine postures. In both µG and in the supine position, the hypoxic ventilatory response, as measured from the slope of ventilation against arterial O2 saturation, was greatly reduced, being only 46 ± 10% (µG) and 52 ± 11% (supine) of that measured standing (P < 0.01). During the hypercapnic ventilatory response test, the ventilation at a PCO2 of 60 Torr was not significantly different in µG (101 ± 5%) and the supine position (89 ± 3%) from that measured standing. Inspiratory occlusion pressures agreed with these results. The findings can be explained by inhibition of the hypoxic but not hypercapnic drive, possibly as a result of an increase in blood pressure in carotid baroreceptors in µG and the supine position.

spaceflight; carotid; inspiratory occlusion pressure; chemoreceptor; blood pressure


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