SENSATION OF BREATHLESSNESS
SENSATION OF BREATHLESSNESS
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DOI:
10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a070002
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发表时间:
1963-01-01
影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
HOWELL, JBL
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作者:
CAMPBELL, EJ;HOWELL, JBL
2. Objective Responses of Breathing to Mechanical Loads Elastic loads, or threshold non-elastic loads, added to the breathing of both conscious and anaesthetized human subjects (Campbell, Dickinson, Dinnick & Howell, 1961; Campbell, Dinnick & Howell, 1961) evoked an increase in inspiratory muscle tension. The response increased over several breaths so that the tidal volume was frequently maintained despite considerable increases in the respiratory work load. Further analysis of the mechanism of this response in animals has shown that it is a reflex and that the stimulus is related to the altered relationship between the degree of shortening of the inspiratory muscles and the tension which they develop. The pathways for the reflex were shown to go through the brain (Campbell, Dickinson and Howell, unpublished work). Thus both the objective and subjective responses to loading of the inspiratory muscles appear to be induced by similar stimuli, ie, alterations in length: tension relationships of the muscles. This suggests a common neural basis for these responses. The receptors for the objective responses were localized to the muscles or tendons themselves, although the identity of the receptors was not studied directly. However, the choice is limited and the only two likely candidates are the muscle spindle and the Golgi tendon organ. If the contraction of a muscle is opposed by an increased load, the misalignment of the intrafusal and the extrafusal fibres is increased; thus the muscle spindle could be the receptor providing the information leading both to the detection of added inspiratory loads and to the increased force of inspiratory contraction caused by such loads. The way the spindle and the small (y) motor-system may do this has been discussed elsewhere (Campbell & Howell, 1962). Identification of a receptor which would detect the changes in tension was more difficult. The Golgi tendon organ, being in series with the contraction of the muscle, is in a position to signal tension, but its high threshold makes it unsuitable for discriminating between the different tensions associated with small added loads. However, as will emerge later, a peripheral tension receptor is not essential