Responses of upper airway, intercostal and diaphragm muscle activity to stimulation of oesophageal afferents in dogs.
AUTOR(ES)
Cherniack, N S
RESUMO
The effects of oesophageal distension on respiratory patterns and the moving average electromyogram (e.m.g.) activity of three upper airway muscles--the alae nasi, the genioglossus, and the posterior cricoarytenoid--and four chest wall muscles--the costal and crural diaphragm and the inspiratory and expiratory intercostals--were examined in ten anaesthetized, tracheostomized, spontaneously breathing dogs. Distension was produced by inflations of a balloon placed in the middle part of the thoracic oesophagus with volumes of air ranging from 50 to 200 ml. Oesophageal distension increased respiratory frequency, mainly due to a significant shortening of the expiratory time. Activity of both the costal and crural parts of the diaphragm was inhibited with oesophageal distension, whereas that of the inspiratory intercostal muscles increased, tending to maintain a near-normal tidal volume and end-tidal CO2. Phasic inspiratory activity of all three upper airway muscles increased in response to oesophageal distension, as did the activity of the expiratory intercostal muscles. The changes in the breathing pattern and the electrical activity of all muscles in response to oesophageal distension were immediate, occurring during the first breath after the balloon was inflated. The responses were graded, so that increases in the volume of the oesophageal balloon progressively increased the activity of the upper airway and intercostal muscles, and decreased diaphragm activity. Bilateral vagotomy abolished the effects of oesophageal distension on upper airway and chest wall muscle activity, suggesting that vagal afferents constitute the major pathway for the reflex.
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