Effect of changes in blood gas tensions and carotid sinus pressure on tracheal volume and total lung resistance to airflow
Effect of changes in blood gas tensions and carotid sinus pressure on tracheal volume and total lung resistance to airflow
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血气张力和颈动脉窦压力变化对气管容量和肺气流总阻力的影响
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1962
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J. G. WIDDICOMBEt
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BY J. A. Nadel;J. G. WIDDICOMBEt
Asphyxia, hypercapnia and hypoxaemia constrict the trachea (Loofbourrow, Wood & Baird, 1957) and bronchi (Roy & Brown, 1885), and also change the mechanical properties of the lungs in a manner attributed to bronchoconstriction (Einthoven, 1892; Dixon & Brodie, 1903). These effects are largely dependent on the integrity of vagal conduction. In analysing the responsible mechanisms Daly & Schweitzer (1951) concluded that stimulation of carotid body chemoreceptors in dogs causes reflex bronchodilatation, and Daly, Lambertsen & Schweitzer (1953) decided that hypoxaemia and hypercapnia of the central nervous system produce nervously mediated bronchoconstriction. The experiments cited above usually involved assessment ofthe relationship between inflation pressure and tidal volume during cyclical changes in volume. This relationship is, by analogy to electrical theory, closely related to the 'impedance' of the respiratory system. The term impedance will be used to describe these measurements in this paper. At the usual frequencies of ventilation, impedance measurements are very insensitive to changes in airway resistance and greatly influenced by alterations in compliance. Therefore, results based on impedance measurements cannot be unequivocally attributed to changes in airway resistance, and give no quantitative information about airway diameter. This paper describes the actions of hypoxaemia, hypercapnia, and changes in carotid sinus pressure on the volume of a tracheal segment and on the total lung resistance to airflow in dogs. We have also studied the nervous mechanisms mediating these changes and have controlled the rate and depth of ventilation and attempted to eliminate the effects of changes in lung compliance and transpulmonary pressure. An abstract of some of the results has been published (Nadel & Widdicombe, 1961).