Pentobarbital dose-dependently increases respiratory genioglossus muscle activity while impairing diaphragmatic function in anesthetized rats.
Pentobarbital dose-dependently increases respiratory genioglossus muscle activity while impairing diaphragmatic function in anesthetized rats.
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DOI:
10.1097/aln.0b013e3181a16337
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发表时间:
2009-06
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影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Chamberlin NL
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作者:
Eikermann M;Fassbender P;Zaremba S;Jordan AS;Rosow C;Malhotra A;Chamberlin NL
Anesthetics depress both ventilatory and upper airway dilator muscle activity and thus put the upper airway at risk for collapse. However, these effects are agent-dependent and may involve upper airway and diaphragm muscles to varying degrees. We assessed the effects of pentobarbital on upper airway dilator and respiratory pump muscle function in rats, and compared these results with the effects of normal sleep. Tracheostomized rats were given increasing doses of pentobarbital to produce deep sedation, then light and deep anesthesia, and negative pressure airway stimuli were applied (n=11). To compare the effects of pentobarbital with those of natural sleep, we chronically instrumented rats (n=10) with genioglossus and neck electromyogram and electroencephalogram electrodes and compared genioglossus activity during wakefulness, sleep (rapid-eye-movement and non- rapid-eye-movement), and pentobarbital anesthesia. Pentobarbital caused a dose-dependent decrease in ventilation and in phasic diaphragmatic electromyogram by 11±0.1%, but increased phasic genioglossus electromyogram by 23±0.2%. Natural non-rapid-eye-movement sleep and pentobarbital anesthesia (10 mg/kg intraperitoneally) decreased respiratory genioglossus electromyogram by 61±29%, and 45±35% respectively, and natural rapid-eye-movement sleep caused the greatest decrease in phasic genioglossus electromyogram (95±0.3%). Pentobarbital in rats impairs respiratory genioglossus activity compared to the awake state, but the decrease is no greater than seen during natural sleep. During anesthesia, in the absence of pharyngeal airflow, phasic genioglossus activity is increased in a dose-dependent fashion.