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Departments of 1 Pediatrics, 2 Medicine, and 3 Anatomy, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
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Premature infants respond to hypercapnia by an
attenuated ventilatory response that is characterized by a decrease in
respiratory frequency. We hypothesized that this impaired
hypercapnic ventilatory response is of central origin and is mediated
via 
-aminobutyric acid-ergic (GABAergic) pathways. We therefore
studied two groups of maturing Sprague-Dawley rats: unrestrained rats
in a whole body plethysmograph at four postnatal ages (5, 16-17,
22-23, and 41-42 days); and ventilated, decerebrate,
vagotomized, paralyzed rats in which phrenic nerve responses to
hypercapnia were measured at 4-6 and 37-39 days of age. In
the unrestrained group, the increase in minute ventilation induced by
hypercapnia was significantly lower at 5 days vs. beyond 16 days.
Although there was an increase in tidal volume at all ages, frequency
decreased significantly from baseline at 5 days, whereas it increased
significantly at 16-17, 22-23, and 41-42 days. The
decrease in frequency at 5 days of age was mainly due to a significant
prolongation in expiratory duration
(TE). In the ventilated group,
hypercapnia also caused prolongation in
TE at 4-6 days but not at
37-39 days of age. Intravenous administration of bicuculline
(GABAA-receptor blocker) abolished the prolongation of TE in
response to hypercapnia in the newborn rats. We conclude that newborn
rat pups exhibit a characteristic ventilatory response to
CO2 expressed as a centrally
mediated prolongation of TE that
appears to be mediated by GABAergic mechanisms.
carbon dioxide response; infant; premature; chemosensitivity; development; -aminobutyric acid; control of breathing
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THE HYPERCAPNIC VENTILATORY response is characterized
by a sustained increase in minute ventilation
(
E), which appears qualitatively similar
between newborns and adults (32). Quantitative
characterization of the hypercapnic response during postnatal
maturation has not, however, generated consistent results. Although
some investigators have shown that, per body weight, the ventilatory
response to hypercapnia in term neonates is similar to that in adults
(32), others have found that hypercapnic sensitivity increases with age
in preterm infants (33) and preterm primates (15). Furthermore, premature, but not term, lambs or term piglets exhibit an attenuated hypercapnic response (8, 35), and newborn rats, being immature at
birth, express a lower ventilatory response to hypercapnia at 2 compared with 8 days of life (26). It, therefore, appears that
prematurity and/or immaturity are important contributors to the
attenuated hypercapnic response in newborns of various species. In
preterm infants the impaired increase in
E in response to hypercapnia is
accompanied by a progressive increase in expiratory duration
(TE) and a resultant decrease
in frequency during the course of hypercapnic exposure (11, 29).
The mechanisms underlying impaired hypercapnic responses in preterm
infants and premature animals have not been fully identified. Krauss et
al. (23) observed simultaneous improvement in lung compliance in
parallel with maturation of the hypercapnic response in infants.
Respiratory inhibition could also be attributed to laryngeal reflexes
triggered by inhaled high levels of
CO2 (3) or an exaggerated
Hering-Breuer reflex (26). Frantz et al. (13) suggested a central
neural origin for this phenomenon. This impairment of the hypercapnic
response could be mediated by inhibitory neurotransmitters that have
been implicated in the control of breathing, such as -aminobutyric
acid (GABA) (6). In the mammalian central nervous system, GABA is the
main inhibitory neurotransmitter, where it exerts its effect via
ionotopic (GABAA) receptors to
produce fast synaptic inhibition and through metabotropic
(GABAB) receptors to produce
slow, prolonged inhibitory signals (31). We assumed that
hypercapnia-induced changes in respiratory timing in preterm infants,
namely prolongation in TE, could
be mediated by release of GABA and activation of
GABAA receptors, causing fast
synaptic inhibition of the initiation of a respiratory burst and
resultant TE prolongation.
In the present study we sought to test the initial hypothesis that rat pups would exhibit prolongation of TE, resulting in an impaired ventilatory response to hypercapnia comparable to that observed in preterm infants. Furthermore, we hypothesized that central neural mechanisms underlie this response and that the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA might be implicated. To avoid the confounding effects of anesthesia on the central respiratory-related network, studies were performed in nonsedated, free-moving rats. Furthermore, we excluded any reflex effects of intralaryngeal CO2 and of vagal input on breathing by performing a second series of experiments in decerebrate, vagotomized, intubated, and mechanically ventilated rats.
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We performed a series of studies in two groups of maturing rats. The first group consisted of unanesthetized, unrestrained rats in which the hypercapnic ventilatory response was studied at different ages to characterize its maturation and the relative contributions of tidal volume (VT) and frequency to this hypercapnic response. The second group of rats consisted of decerebrate, vagotomized, paralyzed, tracheostomized, and mechanically ventilated rats in which the phrenic nerve response to hypercapnia was measured at different ages. The experiments in the ventilated rats allowed us to isolate the responses of central phrenic neural output in the absence of vagal afferents, upper airway reflexes, and changes in the mechanical properties of the lung. In a subgroup of ventilated rats, we also studied the effect of administration of a GABA inhibitor (bicuculline) on the phrenic nerve response to hypercapnia.
Unrestrained rats. All study protocols were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. These studies were initially performed sequentially in one litter of nine Sprague-Dawley rats at 5, 16-17, 22-23, and 41-42 days of life. The entire group survived the 6-wk duration of this experiment. Weights were as follows: 10.1 ± 0.5 (SD) g at 5 days, 33.9 ± 1.4 g at 16 days, 54.9 ± 2.0 g at 22 days, and 161.3 ± 6.2 g at 41 days. The older animals maintained their temperature without extra assistance. The temperature of the 5-day-old rats was monitored by an infrared temperature probe and was maintained by using a warming pad to maintain a stable enviromental temperature of 33°C. In an additional group of newborn rat pups (n = 6), we measured esophageal temperature (Physitemp, model BAT-12, Sansortek, Clifton, NJ) via a precalibrated probe while the animals were in a cage under the same environmental conditions as in the other experiments. Esophageal temperature was stable throughout the experiment at 35.6 ± 0.5°C and was not influenced by exposure to 5 min of CO2.
The rats were acclimatized to the chambers in which ventilation was measured for 30-60 min before testing was started. The animals were then exposed to the test gases in the following order: room air, 5% CO2 in room air for 5 min, followed immediately by 10% CO2 in room air for 5 min. Exposure time did not include the 60-s period allowed for equilibration of gas in the box. The ventilatory parameters were recorded continuously throughout the exposure. VT and respiratory frequency were averaged from 20 consecutive breaths at the end of room air and hypercapnic exposures. At 16-17, 22-23, and 41-42 days of age, the animals were clearly awake during measurements. The sleep-wake state of the 5-day-old animals was difficult to identify. Ventilation was measured by whole body plethysmography in chambers that were modified for the unanesthetized, unrestrained rats as previously described (4, 36). Round Plexiglas chambers of different sizes (0.6 liter at 5 and 16-17 days and 8.4 liters at 22-23 days and 41-42 days) were used. These chambers contained ports to measure the following parameters: flow rate of air or test gas flowing through the chamber, pressure swings in the chamber (Validyne transducer), and the fractional content of CO2 and O2 in the chamber. The flow rate through the chamber was calibrated as in previous studies to prevent CO2 buildup (6-10 timesE) (36). The chamber was flushed
rapidly with air or the test gas (2 l/min), and equilibrium was
attained after 20 s. Calibration for
VT changes was performed at the
average spontaneous respiratory frequency, ~2 breaths/s. Ventilatory
parameters were recorded both on strip chart and by an
analog-to-digital converter coupled to a computer. Two setups were
available, each using the same transducers and monitors so that
simultaneous studies could be performed.
We subsequently performed a series of additional studies in
unrestrained animals to confirm our initial findings in the single litter of animals. These studies allowed us to characterize the contributions of inspiratory duration
(TI) and
TE to the respiratory frequency
response to hypercapnia at two different ages in a larger group of
animals. The same equipment as already described was employed; however,
only exposure to 5% CO2 was
performed. Studies were performed in rats at 5 and 22-23 days of
age. Three litters comprising 29 rats were studied at 5 days, and two
litters comprising 16 rats were studied at 22-23 days.
VT, frequency,
TI,
TE, and E were averaged by sampling 50 breaths
every minute in room air and 50 breaths every minute during exposure to
5% CO2.
Ventilated rats. These experiments were performed in Sprague-Dawley rat pups at 4-6 and 37-39 days of age, with group sizes of eight per each protocol. The animals were decerebrated by using the following procedure. Initially, rat pups were anesthetized with 2% Metofane in oxygen and then were quickly removed from the anesthetic vessel and placed prone on a heating pad. The scalp was cut, and, with sharp forceps, a narrow fissure was made on the interparietal bone perpendicular to the sagittal plane, midway between the lambdoid and the occipital suture. A stainless steel wire (0.2-mm) loop was advanced through the fissure and brain tissue at an angle of ~70° until the tip touched the floor of the skull. The wire loop was swung gently left and right, completing transection of the brain stem at the midcollicular level. Thereafter, the loop was removed and skin edges approximated and closed with adhesive tape. This procedure ensured complete decerebration at the desired level with minimal blood loss. Completeness of decerebration and the level of brain stem transection were confirmed in each animal at the end of the study.
After decerebration the animals were intubated through a tracheostomy and ventilated with a volume ventilator (model 683, Harvard Apparatus) adjusted for small VT values. To avoid hypoxia, the animals were ventilated with 30% O2-balance N2. The frequency and VT were adjusted such that the animals were givenE of 1 ml · g
1 · min1.
The jugular vein was cannulated with PE-10 tubing for administration of
fluids and drugs. Muscular paralysis was achieved by gallamine triethiodide (4-6 µg/g). Both vagi were dissected and cut at the cervical level. The body temperature was maintained between 36 and
36.5°C by means of a heating pad throughout the experiment. The
phrenic nerve was dissected and cut, the proximal end was placed on
fine platinum bipolar electrode, and the neural output was recorded.
The electrical activity from the nerve was amplified, filtered (band
pass 0.03-3 kHz, Grass P511), rectified, and passed through a
Paynter filter to produce a moving average neurogram. The neurogram was
recorded continuously on a Gould chart recorder before and during
hypercapnic exposure.
The animals were left to recover for 30 min before recordings were
started. The moving average of phrenic nerve activity was recorded
before and during 10-min exposure to a gas mixture of 5%
CO2 in 30%
O2-balance
N2.
TI,
TE, and frequency were measured on a breath-by-breath basis and averaged from 20 breaths in the control
period and from 20 breaths at 2, 5, and 10 min of hypercapnic exposure.
Measurements of respiratory timing were based on the peak activity of
the moving average traces. TI
was defined as the interval between the onset of phrenic nerve
discharge and its peak, and the
TE was determined from the point
of rapid decline of peak phrenic nerve activity to the onset of the
next phrenic nerve discharge. Because of differences in the gain of
amplifiers used to record moving average phrenic nerve discharge,
changes in amplitude associated with hypercapnic exposure were not
compared between different age groups.
In a subgroup of animals (n = 6),
after the phrenic nerve response to hypercapnia was recorded, the
effect of intravenous administration of the
GABAA blocker (bicuculline 2 mg/kg
body wt) on the hypercapnic responses of phrenic nerve timing was
examined. When given systemically, bicuculline crosses the blood-brain
barrier (27). Our preliminary studies showed that blockade of
GABAA receptors lasts >30 min,
which allowed sufficient time for completion of the experimental protocol.
Statistical analysis.
One-way repeated-measures ANOVA was used to evaluate the overall effect
of advancing age on the hypercapnic response, with Newman-Keuls test to
compare ventilatory responses at specific ages. ANOVA was also used to
evaluate E,
VT, frequency,
TI, and
TE response to hypercapnia
during the duration of hypercapnic exposure. Two-way ANOVA was used to
compare ventilatory responses between the two different ages (5 and
22-23 days). Results are presented as means ± SE.
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Unrestrained rats.
In the first group of animals derived from a single litter, both 5 and
10% CO2 caused an increase in
E in each animal at all ages, with the
response being higher with 10%
CO2. The percent change in
E increased significantly with advancing
age in response to both 5% (P < 0.01) and 10% CO2
(P < 0.0001), as seen in Fig. 1. The percent increase in
E was significantly lower at 5 days compared with all other age groups (P < 0.05; Newman-Keuls test), and there was no significant difference
among the later three age groups (Fig. 1).
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E was
accompanied by an increase in VT
(Table 1). The percent
increase in VT to 5%
CO2 was comparable among all ages;
however, 10% CO2 caused a
significantly lower VT response
at 5 days compared with the later three ages (P < 0.01), with no difference among
the later three ages. The frequency response did not change from
baseline in the 5-day-old animals in response to either 5 or 10%
CO2. However, both 5 and 10%
CO2 caused a significant increase
in frequency at 16-17 days (P < 0.05) and at 22-23 and 41-42 days of age (both
P < 0.0001).
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E was significantly lower at 5 than 22-23 days of age (P < 0.0001 between ages). There were 32 ± 4 and 81 ± 8% increases in
E after 5 min of exposure to 5%
CO2 at 5 and 22-23 days of
age, respectively.
The percent increase in VT was
similar between the two ages; however, frequency decreased
significantly in response to 5% CO2 at 5 days
(P < 0.0001), whereas it increased
significantly at 22-23 days (P < 0.0001), as seen in Fig. 2. The
decrease in frequency at 5 days was accomplished by a significant
increase in TE
(P < 0.0001) without a significant
change in TI (Fig.
3). The increase in frequency at 22-23
days was accomplished by a significant decrease in both
TI
(P < 0.01) and
TE
(P < 0.0001).
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Ventilated rats.
Hypercapnia caused a significant decrease in frequency of phrenic nerve
discharge in the 4- to 6-day-old rats, from 50 ± 6/min at control
to 35 ± 3/min after 10 min of
CO2 exposure
(P < 0.01) but did not affect the
frequency at 37-39 days of age (40 ± 3/min during control vs.
43 ± 2/min 10 min after
CO2). As in the unrestrained group the decrease in frequency in response to hypercapnia in the
newborn rats was associated with a significant prolongation of
TE
(P < 0.01; Fig.
4), whereas
TI did not change from baseline. At 37-39 days hypercapnia caused a significant decrease in
TI (P < 0.001), whereas
TE was not different from
baseline.
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The major finding of our study is that rats exhibited a clear maturation of their hypercapnic ventilatory response secondary to centrally mediated changes in respiratory timing. To our knowledge, there has been no previous study that systematically evaluated the maturation of hypercapnic ventilatory responses in unrestrained, unanesthetized rats. Separate studies performed in both unanesthetized newborn rats and in adult rats have demonstrated hypercapnic ventilatory responses that are quantitatively comparable to those observed in our study and are highly suggestive of an increase in the hypercapnic ventilatory response with age (24, 34). Recently, Bamford et al. (2) have shown that 3- and 8-day-old rats expressed a lower ventilatory response to CO2 than did 18-day-old rats secondary to an impaired frequency response. Zhou et al. (38) have reported that phrenic nerve activity changes from irregular to regular between 7 and 10 days of life in unanesthetized decerebrate newborn rats. Although they reported no significant effect of maturation on phrenic responses to hypercapnia over this time, it is possible that the regularity of phrenic output observed by 10 days would have resulted in a greater ventilatory response at that time.
Ventilatory response to CO2 has been shown to increase with advancing postnatal age (13, 23, 33) and gestational age (13, 23) in preterm human infants and in unanesthetized premature primates (15). Furthermore, a recent study in lambs has demonstrated an attenuated hypercapnic response in preterm, but not term, newborn lambs (8). These data suggest that prematurity is associated with an attenuated hypercapnic response, whereas mature newborns have hypercapnic responses that are more comparable to the corresponding adult responses (33). This is consistent with our present data and previously published results (2) that newborn rats exhibit such an attenuated hypercapnic response, because they are quite immature at birth (9), whereas newborn pigs (like lambs), which are more mature when delivered at term, exhibit a response that does not appear to so clearly differ in magnitude from the adult response (35).
The results from the second group of unrestrained rats confirmed our
initial findings in a single litter and allowed further characterization of respiratory timing responses in a larger group of
animals. As we have observed in unrestrained 5-day-old rat pups, the
ventilated newborn rats expressed a time-dependent increase in
TE and reduction of phrenic
nerve frequency in response to hypercapnia. Hypercapnia is known to
induce a relatively sustained increase in
E in human infants that is almost
entirely due to an increase in
VT (23, 32) without consistent
change in frequency. We have previously reported that premature infants
exhibited an initial transient decrease in
TE over the first 2 min of
exposure to CO2 that then returned
to control value (29). In a subsequent study of premature infants,
hypercapnia was also associated with a decrease in frequency that was
accompanied by prolongation in TE (11). The hypercapnic
response in the preterm infants in both studies appeared to be
associated with increased braking (persistence of diaphragmatic
activity during expiration) (11, 29). The increase in
TE, which we have also observed
in the most immature animals, if associated with laryngeal adduction or
diaphragmatic braking might serve to maintain a high end-expiratory lung volume and so optimize gas exchange. Further studies are clearly
needed to characterize the role of expiratory upper airway muscles
during the prolonged expiratory phase.
Our findings in vagotomized and decerebrate rat pups would appear discordant with previous studies performed in the neonatal brain stem preparation, in which the most frequently observed respiratory response to hypercapnia is a sustained increase in phrenic burst frequency (21, 30). Such differences could conceivably be due to the technique by which chemosensory neurons are exposed to CO2. However, it is more likely that differences may be related to the relative tissue hypoxia of in vitro brain stem preparations and resultant inhibitory effects on respiratory-related chemosensory neurons. Local hypoxic loading of the ventrolateral medulla induces prolongation of expiratory duration and apnea (17), and increases in CO2 tend to reverse the inhibitory effect of hypoxia (28).
We acknowledge that changes in the sleep-wake state might be a factor in respiratory changes seen in the newborn nonsedated animals. However, CO2-induced prolongation in TE was also observed in decerebrate rat pups, making it unlikely that changes in sleep-wake state play an important role in the observed age-related changes in hypercapnic ventilatory responses. In the present study, several differences exist in the ventilatory responses between the two preparations. Respiratory frequency in the ventilated animals was one-third of that seen in the spontaneously breathing rats. This is probably secondary to vagotomy and is consistent with previous results in vagotomized animals (12, 38). Furthermore, the older animals in the ventilated group did not have a significant decrease in TE in response to hypercapnia. Similarly, in vagotomized adult cats and dogs, hypercapnia or topical application of cholinergic drugs and peptidergic compounds to putative chemosensory areas of the ventrolateral medulla did not affect TE but increased activity of expiratory neurons and elevated respiratory drive (5, 16, 18).
Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the attenuated hypercapnic ventilatory responses exhibited by premature and immature newborns of various species. Possibilities include changes in the mechanical properties of the lung, maturation of hypercapnia-induced upper airway reflexes, maturation in the peripheral or central chemoreceptors, or changes in the central integration of chemoreceptor or other neuronal signals. Bartlett et al. (3) showed that intralaryngeal CO2 in bilaterally vagotomized cats caused a dose-related decrease in phrenic activity. The phrenic nerve response to intralaryngeal CO2 was attenuated by systemic hypercapnia and completely abolished in vagally intact animals (3). A similar mechanism has been suggested for the decrease in ventilatory response to severe hypercapnia in preterm infants (1). Conceivably, the greater susceptibility to laryngeal inhibitory inputs could explain the attenuated ventilatory response in newborn rats. However, it is unlikely that this mechanism is primarily responsible for our results because the CO2-induced decrease in frequency and prolongation of TE occurred in vagally intact, spontaneously breathing rats, as well as in vagotomized, mechanically ventilated animals in which endotracheal intubation bypassed the upper airways. Similarly changes in vagal input via maturation of the Hering-Breuer reflex (26) are an unlikely mechanism for our physiological findings, because these were observed in vagotomized rat pups. Frantz et al. (13) confirmed that ventilatory responses to CO2 are decreased in premature infants and, by measuring end-expiratory occlusion pressures, suggested that decreased respiratory center sensitivity contributed to this phenomenon. Our present data in decerebrate, vagotomized, intubated and ventilated rats strongly indicate a primarily central origin for hypercapnia-induced changes in respiratory timing during maturation, namely prolongation of TE.
Various neurotransmitters have been implicated in the control of breathing, of which GABA is considered to be the major inhibitory neurotransmitter. GABA was found to inhibit respiratory activity mainly via activation of GABAA ionic receptors (19, 20). In the studies reported here, bicuculline, a competitive inhibitor of GABAA receptors, significantly reduced the prolongation of TE in response to hypercapnia, suggesting that hypercapnia activates fast synaptic inhibitory GABAergic pathways to reduce excitation of inspiratory-related neurons and delay initiation of their activity. This finding might point to relative overexpression of GABAA receptors in the newborn rats. Both structural and functional differences in GABAA receptors have been observed during development (7, 22, 25). Xia and Haddad (37) demonstrated that the newborn rat brain stem has a much higher GABAA-receptor density than does adult brain stem with a peak in receptor density at postnatal day 5 or 10 (37). These results do not exclude a possible role of metabotropic (GABAB) receptors in hypercapnia-induced respiratory depression. Future studies employing selective blockers could determine the importance of GABAB receptors in respiratory depression induced by CO2 in premature and immature animals.
Immaturity of the hypercapnic ventilatory response has been associated with apnea of prematurity in human infants, although the biological mechanisms underlying this association are unclear (10, 14). Recognizing the shortcomings of using an animal model to investigate human responses, we believe that the immaturity of newborn rats and the similarities of their hypercapnic ventilatory response to that of premature infants make them a useful model for further characterizing the biological mechanisms underlying instability of neonatal respiratory control.
In conclusion, we are describing for the first time that newborn rats exhibit an impaired hypercapnic response that is mediated by a decrease in respiratory frequency and prolongation in TE. This ventilatory response is primarily central in origin and does not appear to be secondary to maturational changes in vagal nerve responses or mechanical properties of the lung. Furthermore, our data suggest that developmental changes in GABAergic mechanisms contribute to this maturation of the hypercapnic ventilatory response.
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This work was supported by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Grants HL-62527 and HL-50527.
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Address for reprint requests: R. J. Martin, Rainbow Babies & Childrens Hospital, 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106-6010 (E-mail: rxm6{at}po.cwru.edu).
Received 23 October 1998; accepted in final form 31 March 1999.
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