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1 Kosair Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, and 2 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40202
Gasping is a critically important mechanism for autoresuscitation and survival during extreme tissue hypoxia. Evidence of antecedent hypoxia in sudden infant death syndrome suggests that intermittently occurring hypoxic episodes may modify gasping and autoresuscitation. To examine this issue, an intermittent hypoxia (IH) profile consisting of alternating room air and 10% O2-balance N2 every 90 s was applied to pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats (IHRA; n = 50) and to pups after a normal pregnancy (RAIH; n = 50) as well as to control pups (RARA; n = 50). At postnatal day 5, pups were exposed to 95% N2-5% CO2, and gasping and the ability to autoresuscitate were assessed. Compared with RARA, IHRA- and RAIH-exposed pups had a reduced number of gasps, decreased overall gasp duration, and were less likely to autoresuscitate on introduction of room air to the breathing mixture during the last phase of gasping (P < 0.001 vs. RARA). We conclude that both prenatal and early postnatal IH adversely affect gasping and related survival mechanisms.
anoxic tolerance; respiration; sudden infant death syndrome; apnea
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