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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 257: R1027-R1033, 1989;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 257, Issue 5 1027-R1033, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Chemoreceptor stimulation on sympathetic activity: dependence on respiratory phase

P. G. Katona, K. Dembowsky, J. Czachurski and H. Seller
Physiological Institute 1, University of Heidelberg, FRG.

Experiments were performed on chloralose-anesthetized, vagotomized, paralyzed, and artificially ventilated cats breathing 100% O2. Peripheral chemoreceptors were stimulated by rapid injections of CO2-saturated NaHCO3 in different phases of the respiratory cycle. Responses of cardiac and renal sympathetic nerves were computed by digital integration. Spontaneous sympathetic activity was consistently modulated by respiration, the modulation being greater for cardiac than for renal nerves. Cardiac nerve responses to peripheral chemoreceptor stimulation depended on the respiratory phase for at least one experimental condition in four of seven animals: the responses were largest during late inspiration and smallest (or absent) during postinspiration and early expiration. Renal nerve responses depended on respiratory phase in only two of eight animals. An average end-tidal CO2 concentration increase from 4.6 +/- 0.8% (SD) to 6.7 +/- 0.9% enhanced the respiratory modulation of spontaneous activity but reduced the responses to peripheral chemoreceptor stimulation. The results indicate that the respiratory modulation of chemoreceptor-induced sympathetic responses was less prominent than the modulation of spontaneous activity. It is hypothesized that the phase dependence of the responses is caused by the spontaneously occurring expiratory diminution of sympathetic activity rather than by an inherent gating of the chemoreceptor reflex.


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