Hering-Breuer reflex in conscious newborn rats: effects of changes in ambient temperature during hypoxia.

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  • D Merazzi
  • J P Mortola
چکیده

In a previous study in conscious normoxic newborn rats, we found that the strength of the Hering-Breuer reflex (HB reflex) was greater (188%) at high (36 degrees C) than at low (24 degrees C) ambient temperature (T(a); D. Merazzi and J. P. Mortola. Pediatr. Res. 45: 370-376, 1999). We now asked what the effect would be of changes in T(a) during hypoxia. Rat pups at 3-4 days of age were studied in a double-chamber airflow plethysmograph. The HB reflex was induced by negative body surface pressures of 5 or 10 cmH(2)O and quantified from the inhibition of breathing during maintained lung inflation. Rats were first studied at T(a) = 32 degrees C in normoxia, followed by hypoxia (10% O(2) breathing). During hypoxia, oxygen consumption (VO(2)) averaged 47%, and HB reflex 115%, of the corresponding normoxic values, confirming that in the newborn, differently from the adult, hypoxia does not decrease the strength of the HB reflex. As hypoxia was maintained, lowering T(a) to 24 degrees C or increasing it to 36 degrees C, on average, had no significant effects on VO(2) and the HB reflex. However, with 5-cmH(2)O inflations, the HB reflex during the combined hypoxia and hyperthermia was significantly stronger than in normoxia. We conclude that in conscious newborn rats during normoxia the T(a) sensitivity of the HB reflex is largely mediated by the effects of T(a) on thermogenesis and VO(2); in hypoxia, because thermogenesis is depressed and VO(2) varies little with T(a), the HB reflex is T(a) independent. The observation that the reflex response to lung inflations during hypoxic hyperthermia can be greater than in normoxia may be of importance in the pathophysiology of apneas during the neonatal period.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of applied physiology

دوره 87 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999