Effect of body position on ventilatory responses in anaesthetised mice |
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Authors: | Izumizaki Masahiko Pokorski Mieczyslaw Ishihara Yohei Iwase Michiko Homma Ikuo |
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Institution: | Department of Physiology, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan. |
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Abstract: | The effects of body position on ventilatory responses to chemical stimuli have rarely been studied in experimental animals, despite evidence that position may be a factor in respiratory results. The purpose of this study was to test whether body position could affect acute ventilatory responses to 4-min periods of moderate hypercapnia (5% CO(2) in O(2)) and poikilocapnic hypoxia (15% O(2) in N(2)) in the urethane-anaesthetised mouse. Respiratory measurements were conducted with mice in the prone and supine positions with a whole-body, single-chamber plethysmograph. During hypoxia, the time course of minute ventilation (V (E)) was similar in the two positions, but the breathing pattern was different. After the response peak, V (E) depended on respiratory frequency (f) and tidal volume (V(T)) in the prone position but mainly on V(T) in the supine position. In the supine position, f declined below the baseline values toward the end of hypoxic exposure. During hypercapnia, there were no ventilatory differences between the prone and supine positions. Brief hypoxic exposure elicited f depression in the supine position in the anaesthetised mouse. The depressive effect on f suggests that the supine position may not be optimal for sustaining ventilation, particularly during hypoxia. |
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