刺激面神经核背内侧区及腹内侧区对颏舌肌和膈肌肌电活动的影响

在４４只氨基甲酸乙酯麻醉、断双侧迷走神经的健康成年家兔上、观察电、化学刺激面神经核背内侧区和腹内侧区对颏舌肌和膈肌肌电活动的影响。结果如下：（１）长串电脉冲刺激ｄＭＮＦ引起颏舌肌和膈肌肌电活动明显增强;（２）短串电脉冲刺激ｄＭＦＮ,当刺激落用于吸气相时,引起颏舌肌和膈肌在呼气相的肌是有终止;（３）长串电脉冲刺激ｖＭＮＦ使颏舌肌和膈肌肌电活动明显被抑制;（４）短中电脉冲刺激ｖＭＮＦ,当刺激落位有气相     

刺激中缝背核不同区域对颏舌肌和膈肌的影响

本实验在４８只氨基甲酸惭酯麻醉、断双侧迷走神经的健康家兔上观察了电、化学刺激中缝背核背侧区（ｄＮＲＤ）和腹侧区（ｖＮＲＤ）对颏舌肌和膈肌肌电积分活动的影响。结果如下：（１）长串电脉冲刺激ｄＮＲＤ使颏舌肌和膈肌肌电活动均明显增强;（２）长串电脉冲刺激ｖＮＲＤ时,颏舌肌活动被易化,而膈肌活动则被抑制;（３）在ｄＮＲＤ和ｖＮＲＤ分别微量注射谷氨酸钠,其效应与电刺激结果基本一致。结果提示：（３）在ｄＮＲＤ     

家兔三叉神经终止核对颏舌肌肌电活动的调制作用

本工作在35只氨基甲酸乙酯麻醉、自主呼吸的家兔上观察了刺激三叉神经终止核(NTV)对颏舌肌肌电活动的影响。结果发现,电刺激NTV和NTV内微量注射谷氨酸钠都能使颏舌肌出现明显的易化效应。电刺激NTV背侧与腹侧时,颏舌肌肌电反应的潜伏期分别为5.9±0.7ms和3.0±0.4ms,电刺激舌下神经核时颏舌肌反应的潜伏期为2.2±0.2ms。结果提示三叉神经终止核的兴奋可加强颏舌肌的活动从而减小上呼吸道阻力。     

中缝核与阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停关系的实验研究

本实验在６４只氨基甲酸乙酯麻醉、断双侧迷走神经、自主呼吸的健康家兔上进行,观察电、化学刺激中缝背核（ＮＲＤ）、中缝大核（ＮＲＭ）对颏舌肌和膈肌肌电、以及窒息增幅反应（ＡＡＲＡ）的作用。结果如下：１．长串电脉冲刺激ＮＲＤ,颏舌肌和膈肌肌电幅度明显升高,在刺激过程中呈持续性吸气相放电。长串电脉冲刺激ＮＲＭ,颏舌肌和膈肌肌电幅度显著抑制,呼吸节律减弱或消失;２．于ＮＲＤ微量注入谷氨酸钠,颏舌肌和膈肌肌电幅度升高,频率加快。在ＮＲＭ微量注射谷氨酸钠,ＡＡＲＡ降低。上述结果与电刺激ＮＲＤ、ＮＲＭ的效应基本一致;３．ＮＲＭ内微量注入吗啡,颏舌肌和膈肌的ＡＡＲＡ峰值被抑制,潜伏期延长,恢复期缩短。若注射吗啡后５ｍｉｎ再微量注入纳络酮,则吗啡的抑制效应减弱。结果提示：中缝核和阿片肽类物质对颏舌肌有重要的调制作用,可能与阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停的发生有关     

刺激家兔舌下神经核中段腹侧区对呼吸节律的影响

本工作在２５只氨基甲酸乙酯麻醉,断双侧迷走神经的家兔上,以膈肌肌电活动作为检测指标,观察了电及化学刺激舌下神经核中段腹侧区对呼吸节律的影响。结果如下：长串电脉冲刺激ＶＭＮＨ时,膈肌肌电活动被完全抑制,而颏舌肌活动明显易化;在吸气相的中期或后期短串电脉冲刺激ＶＭＮＨ可使吸气切断;微量注射谷氨酸钠于此区,膈肌活动也受到抑制。上述观察表明ＶＭＮＨ对呼吸节律具有调制作用,这种调制作用可能参与吞咽反射的中枢     

面神经核背内侧区和腹内侧我注射吗啡和纳络酮对颏舌肌和 …

目的和方法：静脉注射氨基甲酸乙酯麻醉,断双这走神经,在４８只成年健康家兔,观察面神经核背内侧区（ｄＭＮＦ）和腹内侧区（ｖＭＮＦ）注射微量吗啡和阿片受体拮抗剂－－纳络酮对颏舌肌和膈肌肌电活动的影响。结果：在ｄＭＮＦ和ｖＭＮＦ内分别注射微量吗啡颏舌肌和膈肌肌电活动明显被抑制,表现为肌电积分幅度降低。注射微量纳络酮,颏舌肌和膈肌肌电活动明显增强,表现为肌电积分幅度升高,并且纳络酮对吗啡的抑制作用有反转效     

舌下神经核内注射乙醇及去甲肾上腺素对颏舌肌活动的效应

健康家兔87只,乌拉坦静脉麻醉,断双侧迷走神经,记录颏舌肌和膈肌肌电。观察舌下神经核内注射药物对动物窒息引起的颏舌肌肌电积分活动增强效应(PIMA)的影响。注射乙醇可抑制颏舌肌的PIMA;颏舌肌增幅峰值(PAMP)减小,增幅潜伏期(LAT)延长,恢复时间(RT)提前。注射去甲肾上腺素(NA)可增强颏舌肌的PIMA,妥拉苏林(Tola.)抑制PIMA,NA的效应能被Tola.阻断。第四脑室底局部浸润乙醇,平静呼吸时能引起以颜舌肌抑制为主的效应(P<0.01)。本工作提示,乙醇能抑制家兔上呼吸道辅助呼吸肌颏舌肌的活动,该作用可能与舌下神经核本身或第四脑室底的某些结构受到抑制有关。舌下神经核内有肾上腺素能受体,对颏舌肌活动有兴奋作用。     

蓝斑核调制电刺激包钦格复合体引起的吸气抑制效应

实验选用成年健康家兔,用乌拉坦麻醉,以膈神经放电为指标,观察了电刺激和化学刺激脑桥蓝斑核对延髓包钦格复合体吸气抑制效应的影响。结果观察到:(1)长串电刺激蓝斑核后,在一定时间之内电刺激包钦格复合体所导致的膈神经放电抑制效应明显减弱,与对照组(仅刺激包钦格复合体)相比,抑制程度减弱(28.78 ±19.49)%。(2)蓝斑核内微量注射谷氨酸钠后,电刺激包钦格复合体导致的膈神经放电抑制效应明显减弱,与对照组相比,抑制程度减弱(19.18 ±8.06)%,与长串电刺激蓝斑核的效应一致。这些结果提示,蓝斑核对包钦格复合体吸气抑制效应具有调制作用。     

不同雌激素水平下大鼠颏舌肌肌电反应的研究

目的：通过比较不同雌激素水平下大鼠颏舌肌的肌电反应,探讨雌激素在预防及降低阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停低通气综合征（OSAHS）发病过程中的作用机制。方法：选择30只6周龄SD大鼠建立不同雌激素水平模型,用电子称评估术前、术后和雌激素替代治疗后大鼠的体重变化;放射免疫法检测血清雌激素水平;电生理方法检测不同雌激素水平颏舌肌的肌电反应。结果：与假手术组（SHAM）相比,去势组（OVX）大鼠术后6周体重明显增加（P〈0．01）,雌激素替代治疗组（OVX＋E2）与SHAM组体重相当。血清雌激素检测结果显示OVX组雌激素水平最低,与SHAM组相比具有显著差异（P〈0．01）;OVX＋E2组雌激素水平高于OVX组（P〈0．01）,但仍未恢复到SHAM组水平。电生理检测结果显示,与SHAM组相比,OVX组颏舌肌肌电强度最低（P〈0．05）,OVX＋E2组颏舌肌的肌电强度显著高于OVX组（P〈0．05）,但仍低于SHAM组。结论：血清雌激素水平可以直接影响大鼠颏舌肌肌电强度．这可能是雌激素保护OSAHS的原因之一。     

红核在肌梭传入抑制伤害性反应中的作用

本实验用玻璃微电极细胞外记录方法, 观察了刺激红核对皮肤强电刺激诱发的大鼠脊髓背角广动力范围（ｗｉｄｅ ｄｙｎａｍｉｃ ｒａｎｇｅ, ＷＤＲ） 神经元长潜伏期反应（Ｃ反应） 的作用, 及红核对琥珀胆碱（ｓｕｃｃｉｎｙｌｃｈｏｌｉｎｅ,ＳＣＨ） 诱发的肌梭传入抑制ＷＤＲ神经元Ｃ反应效应的影响。结果表明： 电刺激红核对ＷＤＲ 神经元Ｃ反应具有抑制作用, 此作用可被静注噻庚啶明显减弱。静脉注射ＳＣＨ 对ＷＤＲ神经元Ｃ反应有明显抑制作用, 损毁单侧红核后,ＳＣＨ 对ＷＤＲ神经元Ｃ反应的抑制效应明显减弱。结果提示,５ＨＴ参与红核的痛下行抑制作用, 在肌梭传入镇痛中红核起着一定的作用     

Influence of genioglossus tonic activity on upper airway dynamics assessed by phrenic nerve stimulation.

Upper airway (UA) dynamics can be evaluated during wakefulness by using electrical phrenic nerve stimulation (EPNS) applied at end-expiration during exclusive nasal breathing by dissociating twitch flow and phasic activation of UA muscles. This technique can be used to quantify the influence of nonphasic electromyographic (EMG) activity on UA dynamics. UA dynamics was characterized by using EPNS when increasing tonic EMG activity with CO(2) stimulation in six normal awake subjects. Instantaneous flow, esophageal and nasopharyngeal pressures, and genioglossal EMG activity were recorded during EPNS at baseline and during CO(2) ventilatory stimulation. The proportion of twitches presenting an inspiratory-flow limitation pattern decreased from 100% at baseline to 78.7 +/- 21.4% (P = 10(-4)) during CO(2) rebreathing. During CO(2) stimuli, maximal inspiratory twitch flow (VI(max)) of flow-limited twitches significantly rose, with the driving pressure at which flow limitation occurred being more negative. For the group as a whole, the increase in VI(max) and the decrease in pressure were significantly correlated with the rise in end-expiratory EMG activity. UA stability assessed by EPNS is dramatically modified during CO(2) ventilatory stimulation. Changes in tonic genioglossus EMG activity significantly contribute to the improvement in UA stability.     

Effect of phrenic afferent stimulation on pattern of respiratory muscle activation.

Ventilation and electromyogram (EMG) activities of the right hemidiaphragm, parasternal intercostal, triangularis sterni, transversus abdominis, genioglossus, and alae nasi muscles were measured before and during central stimulation of the left thoracic phrenic nerve in 10 alpha-chloralose anesthetized vagotomized dogs. Pressure in the carotid sinuses was fixed to maintain baroreflex activity constant. The nerve was stimulated for 1 min with a frequency of 40 Hz and stimulus duration of 1 ms at voltages of 5, 10, 20, and 30 times twitch threshold (TT). At five times TT, no change in ventilation or EMG activity occurred. At 10 times TT, neither tidal volume nor breathing frequency increased sufficiently to reach statistical significance, although the change in their product (minute ventilation) was significant (P less than 0.05). At 20 and 30 times TT, increases in both breathing frequency and tidal volume were significant. At these stimulus intensities, the increases in ventilation were accompanied by approximately equal increases in the activity of the diaphragm, parasternal, and alae nasi muscles. The increase in genioglossus activity was much greater than that of the other inspiratory muscles. Phrenic nerve stimulation also elicited inhomogeneous activation of the expiratory muscles. The transversus abdominis activity increased significantly at intensities from 10 to 30 times TT, whereas the activity of the triangularis sterni remained unchanged. The high stimulation intensities required suggest that the activation of afferent fiber groups III and IV is involved in the response. We conclude that thin-fiber phrenic afferent activation exerts a nonuniform effect on the upper airway, rib cage, and abdominal muscles and may play a role in the control of respiratory muscle recruitment.     

Relationship between respiratory nerve and muscle activity and muscle force output.

To demonstrate the most satisfactory way of using electrical activities of respiratory nerves and muscles, activities of phrenic nerve and external intercostal muscle (ICM) and the airway pressure changes generated by respiratory muscle contraction were recorded in anesthetized cats during complete airway occlusion. Electrical activities were rectified, integrated and processed in terms of peak and average inspiratory rates per 0.1 s and of total activity per breath. Peak rate of phrenic nerve activity exhibited a high linear correlation (r = 0.974) with peak inspiratory pressure. Average phrenic rate showed a similar high correlation (r = 0.973). Peak rate of external ICM was linearly related to peak pressure but the correlation was less good (r = 0.915). Total phrenic activity per breath was too dependent upon inspiratory duration to be a satisfactory correlate (r = 0.674). In this experiment occlusion pressure was an index of muscle force generation and respiratory control system output. It is concluded that peak or average rates of phrenic activity provide an electrical index of output changes. On theoretical grounds, peak rate is probably better.     

Site of phrenic nerve stimulation-induced upper airway collapse: influence of expiratory time.

Electrical phrenic nerve stimulation (EPNS) applied at end expiration during exclusive nasal breathing can be used to characterize upper airway (UA) dynamics during wakefulness by dissociating phasic activation of UA and respiratory muscles. The UA level responsible for the EPNS-induced increase in UA resistance is unknown. The influence of the twitch expiratory timing (200 ms and 2 s) on UA resistance was studied in nine normal awake subjects by looking at instantaneous flow, esophageal and pharyngeal pressures, and genioglossal electromyogram (EMG) activity during EPNS at baseline and at -10 cmH(2)O. The majority of twitches had a flow-limited pattern. Twitches realized at 200 ms and 2 s did not differ in their maximum inspiratory flows, but esophageal pressure measured at maximum inspiratory flow was significantly less negative with late twitches (-6.6 +/- 2.7 and -5.0 +/- 3.0 cmH(2)O respectively, P = 0.04). Pharyngeal resistance was higher when twitches were realized at 2 s than at 200 ms (6.4 +/- 2.4 and 2.7 +/- 1.1 cmH(2)O x l(-1). s, respectively). EMG activity significant rose at peak esophageal pressure with a greater increase for late twitches. We conclude that twitch-induced UA collapse predominantly occurs at the pharyngeal level and that UA stability assessed by EPNS depends on the expiratory time at which twitches are performed.     

Fluctuation in timing of upper airway and chest wall inspiratory muscle activity in obstructive sleep apnea

An imbalance in the amplitude of electrical activity of the upper airway and chest wall inspiratory muscles is associated with both collapse and reopening of the upper airway in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The purpose of this study was to examine whether timing of the phasic activity of these inspiratory muscles also was associated with changes in upper airway caliber in OSA. We hypothesized that activation of upper airway muscle phasic electrical activity before activation of the chest wall pump muscles would help preserve upper airway patency. In contrast, we anticipated that the reversal of this pattern with delayed activation of upper airway inspiratory muscles would be associated with upper airway narrowing or collapse. Therefore the timing and amplitude of midline transmandibular and costal margin moving time average (MTA) electromyogram (EMG) signals were analyzed from 58 apnea cycles in stage 2 sleep in six OSA patients. In 86% of the postapnea breaths analyzed the upper airway MTA peak activity preceded the chest wall peak activity. In 86% of the obstructed respiratory efforts the upper airway MTA peak activity followed the chest wall peak activity. The onset of phasic electrical activity followed this same pattern. During inspiratory efforts when phasic inspiratory EMG amplitude did not change from preapnea to apnea, the timing changes noted above occurred. Even within breaths the relative timing of the upper airway and chest wall electrical activities was closely associated with changes in the pressure-flow relationship. We conclude that the relative timing of inspiratory activity of the upper airway and chest wall inspiratory muscles fluctuates during sleep in OSA.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

Upper airway muscle and diaphragm responses to hypoxia in the piglet

The neonatal ventilatory response to hypoxia is characterized by initial transient stimulation and subsequent respiratory depression. It is unknown, however, whether this response is also exhibited by the upper airway muscles that regulate nasal, laryngeal, and pharyngeal patency. We therefore compared electromyogram (EMG) amplitudes and minute EMGs for the diaphragm (DIA), alae nasi (AN), posterior cricoarytenoid (PCA), and genioglossus (GG) muscles in 12 anesthetized spontaneously breathing piglets during inhalation of 12% O2 over 10 min. Minute EMG for the DIA responded to hypoxia with an initial transient increase and subsequent return to prehypoxia levels by 10 min. Hypoxia also stimulated all three upper airway muscles. In contrast to the DIA EMG, however, AN, PCA, and GG EMGs all remained significantly above prehypoxia levels after 10 min of hypoxia. We have thus demonstrated that the initial stimulation and subsequent depression of the DIA EMG after 12% O2 inhalation contrast with the sustained increase in AN, PCA, and GG EMGs during hypoxia. We speculate that 1) central inhibition during neonatal hypoxia is primarily distributed to the motoneuron pools regulating DIA activation and 2) peripheral chemoreceptor stimulation and/or central disinhibition induced by hypoxia preferentially influence those motoneuron pools that regulate upper airway muscle activation, causing the different hypoxic responses of these muscle groups in the young piglet.     

Mechanisms of control of alae nasi muscle activity.

Human upper airway dilator muscles are clearly influenced by chemical stimuli such as hypoxia and hypercapnia. Whether in humans there are upper airway receptors capable of modifying the activity of such muscles is unclear. We studied alae nasi electromyography (EMG) in normal men in an attempt to determine 1) whether increasing negative intraluminal pressure influences the activity of the alae nasi muscle, 2) whether nasal airway feedback mechanisms modify the activity of this muscle, and 3) if so, whether these receptor mechanisms are responding to mucosal temperature/pressure changes or to airway deformation. Alae nasi EMG was recorded in 10 normal men under the following conditions: 1) nasal breathing (all potential nasal receptors exposed), 2) oral breathing (nasal receptors not exposed), 3) nasal breathing with splints (airway deformation prevented), and 4) nasal breathing after nasal anesthesia (mucosal receptors anesthetized). In addition, in a separate group, the combined effects of anesthesia and nasal splints were assessed. Under each condition, EMG activity was monitored during basal breathing, progressive hypercapnia, and inspiratory resistive loading. Under all four conditions, both load and hypercapnia produced a significant increase in alae nasi EMG, with hypercapnia producing a similar increment in EMG regardless of nasal receptor exposure. On the other hand, loading produced greater increments in EMG during nasal than during oral breathing, with combined anesthesia plus splinting producing a load response similar to that observed during oral respiration. These observations suggest that nasal airway receptors have little effect on the alae nasi response to hypercapnia but appear to mediate the alae nasi response to loading or negative airway pressure.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

Effect of hypercapnia and PEEP on expiratory muscle EMG and shortening

The present study examined the effects of hypercapnia and positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on the electromyographic (EMG) activity and tidal length changes of the expiratory muscles in 12 anesthetized, spontaneously breathing dogs. The integrated EMG activity of both abdominal (external oblique, internal oblique, rectus abdominis, and transverse abdominis) and thoracic (triangularis sterni, internal intercostal) expiratory muscles increased linearly with increasing PCO2 and PEEP. However, with both hypercapnia and PEEP, the percent increase in abdominal muscle electrical activity exceeded that of thoracic expiratory muscle activity. Both hypercapnia and PEEP increased the tidal shortening of the external oblique and rectus abdominis muscles. Changes in tidal length correlated closely with simultaneous increases in muscle electrical activity. However, during both hypercapnia and PEEP, length changes of the external oblique were significantly greater than those of the rectus abdominis. We conclude that both progressive hypercapnia and PEEP increase the electrical activity of all expiratory muscles and augment their tidal shortening but produce quantitatively different responses in the several expiratory muscles.