The Role of the Aortic Body Chemoreceptors in the Cardiac and Respiratory Responses to Acute Hypoxia in the Anesthetized Dog

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. P. Biro ◽  
J. D. Hatcher ◽  
D. B. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Cardiac Output ◽  
Acute Hypoxia ◽  
Control Period ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Minute Volume ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
Cardiac Response ◽  
Cardiac Responses ◽  
Respiratory Parameters

The participation of the aortic chemoreceptors in the reflex cardiac responses to acute hypoxia is suggested only by the indirect evidence of pharmacological stimulation of these receptors. In order to assess their role more directly, the response to a 15 min period of hypoxia was determined after surgical denervation of the aortic chemoreceptors (A.D.), and compared with the response of sham-operated (S.O.) dogs, anesthetized with morphine–pentobarbital. In the control period, while breathing room air, the cardiovascular and respiratory parameters measured in the A.D. animals were not different from those of the S.O. dogs. Hypoxia (partial pressure of oxygen approximately 30 mm Hg) in the S.O. dogs was associated with a statistically significant rise in the heart rate (+71 ± 7 min−1, mean ± S.E.M.) and of the cardiac output (+25 ± 10 ml kg−1 min−1). In the A.D. animals, the significantly smaller increment in heart rate (+29 ± 6 min−1) was associated with a fall of the cardiac output (−16 ± 12 ml kg−1 min−1). The hypoxia-induced changes in heart rate and cardiac output in the S.O. animals were different (p < 0.05) from those in the A.D. group. The minute volume of ventilation was significantly augmented in both groups, and to a comparable extent. These findings indicate that the aortic chemoreceptors play a significant role in the cardiac response to hypoxia, but they do not affect, to a significant extent, the respiratory response.

scholarly journals Dexamethasone mimics aspects of physiological acclimatization to 8 hours of hypoxia but suppresses plasma erythropoietin

2013 ◽  
Vol 114 (7) ◽  
pp. 948-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Liu ◽  
Quentin P. P. Croft ◽  
Swati Kalidhar ◽  
Jerome T. Brooks ◽  
Mari Herigstad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Cardiac Output ◽  
Pulmonary Artery ◽  
Pulmonary Artery Pressure ◽  
Acute Hypoxia ◽  
Acute Mountain Sickness ◽  
Control Period ◽  
Plasma Concentrations ◽  
Air Breathing ◽  
Artery Pressure

Dexamethasone ameliorates the severity of acute mountain sickness (AMS) but it is unknown whether it obtunds normal physiological responses to hypoxia. We studied whether dexamethasone enhanced or inhibited the ventilatory, cardiovascular, and pulmonary vascular responses to sustained (8 h) hypoxia. Eight healthy volunteers were studied, each on four separate occasions, permitting four different protocols. These were: dexamethasone (20 mg orally) beginning 2 h before a control period of 8 h of air breathing; dexamethasone with 8 h of isocapnic hypoxia (end-tidal Po2 = 50 Torr); placebo with 8 h of air breathing; and placebo with 8 h of isocapnic hypoxia. Before and after each protocol, the following were determined under both euoxic and hypoxic conditions: ventilation; pulmonary artery pressure (estimated using echocardiography to assess maximum tricuspid pressure difference); heart rate; and cardiac output. Plasma concentrations of erythropoietin (EPO) were also determined. Dexamethasone had no early (2-h) effect on any variable. Both dexamethasone and 8 h of hypoxia increased euoxic values of ventilation, pulmonary artery pressure, and heart rate, together with the ventilatory sensitivity to acute hypoxia. These effects were independent and additive. Eight hours of hypoxia, but not dexamethasone, increased the sensitivity of pulmonary artery pressure to acute hypoxia. Dexamethasone, but not 8 h of hypoxia, increased both cardiac output and systemic arterial pressure. Dexamethasone abolished the rise in EPO induced by 8 h of hypoxia. In summary, dexamethasone enhances ventilatory acclimatization to hypoxia. Thus, dexamethasone in AMS may improve oxygenation and thereby indirectly lower pulmonary artery pressure.

Cardiac output in muscular exercise at 5,800 m (19,000 ft)

1964 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. G. C. E. Pugh
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Cardiac Output ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Muscular Exercise ◽  
Maximum Output ◽  
Work Intensity ◽  
Maximum Heart Rate ◽  
Sea Level Pressure

Cardiac output during muscular exercise was estimated by the acetylene technique on four members of the Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering expedition 1960–1961 at sea level and 5,800 m (19,000 ft). The output for a given work intensity at 5,800 m (19,000 ft) was comparable with the output at the same work intensity at sea level, but the maximum output was reduced, the mean value being 16 liters/min, compared with 23 liters/min at sea level. Heart rates during light and moderate exercise were higher than the rates observed at the same work intensity at sea level. The maximum heart rate during exercise was limited to 130–150 beats/min compared with 180–196 beats/min at sea level. The stroke volume at altitude was lower than at sea level at each work rate. On breathing oxygen at sea-level pressure, heart rate for a given work intensity was reduced; but the maximum heart rate increased. Indirect evidence suggested that maximum cardiac output increased but probably not to the sea-level values because of the increased hemoglobin and lower heart rate. altitude acclimatization; cardiac function, work and altitude; hypoxia and cardiac output Submitted on July 29, 1963

Cardiac Response During Trumpet Playing

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald U Robertson ◽  
Lynda Federoff ◽  
Keith E Eisensmith
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
Cardiac Output ◽  
Stroke Volume ◽  
Cardiac Response ◽  
Physiological Efficiency ◽  
Rest Periods ◽  
Upper Register

Heart rate, heart rate variability, stroke volume, and cardiac output were measured while six college students and six professionals played trumpet. One-minute rest periods were followed by 1 minute of playing exercises designed to assess the effects of pitch and articulation. Heart rate and heart rate variability increased during playing, but stroke volume decreased. Changes in heart rate between resting and playing were greater for students, although beat-to-beat variability was larger for professionals in the upper register. These results suggest that expertise is characterized by greater physiological efficiency.

Adrenal contribution to cardiac responses elicited by acute hypoxia in piglets

1980 ◽  
Vol 239 (6) ◽  
pp. H751-H755 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Lee ◽  
J. C. Werner ◽  
S. E. Downing
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Adrenal Glands ◽  
Acute Hypoxia ◽  
Cardiac Contractility ◽  
Sympathetic Nerves ◽  
Left Ventricular ◽  
Cardiac Work ◽  
Ganglionic Blockade ◽  
Cardiac Responses

The adrenal contribution to cardiac responses elicited by acute hypoxia was assessed in 16 piglets, 1-12 wks old, anesthetized with pentobarbital (30 mg/kg). External cardiac work was held constant and parasympathetic blockade was produced in each animal with atropine (1 mg). Hypoxia was produced by addition of N2 to the respirator. In a sham-adrenalectomy group (n = 6) left ventricular (LV) dP/dtmax increased significantly during hypoxia (PaO2 approximately 30 mmHg) to 3,680 +/- 414 mmHg/s from control values of 2,686 +/- 317 mmHg/s (P < 0.01). Heart rate rose from 171 +/- 6 to 186 +/- 7 beats/min (P < 0.02). These responses were not significantly altered by ganglionic blockade with trimethaphan camsylate (0.5 mg x kg-1 x min-1). Equally large increases of LV dP/dtmax appeared when heart rate was held constant by pacing. beta-Adrenoreceptor blockade with practolol (4 mg/kg) sharply reduced but did not eliminate the response. In contrast, no changes in LV dP/dtmax or heart rate were observed during hypoxia in adrenalectomized piglets (n = 6). These findings indicate that the increased cardiac contractility during acute hypoxia in piglets is dependent on the integrity of the adrenal glands and that there is minimal contribution from cardiac sympathetic nerves.

Constancy of stroke volume in ventricular responses to exertion

1959 ◽  
Vol 196 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Rushmer
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Cardiac Output ◽  
Stroke Volume ◽  
Cardiac Response ◽  
Indirect Measurements ◽  
Increase Stroke Volume ◽  
Normal Man ◽  
The Right ◽  
Response To Exercise ◽  
Indicator Dilution Techniques

Diastolic and systolic dimensions of the left ventricle and the free wall of the right ventricle in intact dogs are affected little by spontaneous exercise. The concept that stroke volume and heart rate in normal man increase by about the same relative amounts was derived from estimations of cardiac output, particularly in athletes, based upon indirect measurements using foreign gases or CO2. Data for man obtained with the modern cardiac catheterization or indicator dilution techniques confirm the impression derived from intact dogs that increased stroke volume is neither an essential nor a characteristic feature of the normal cardiac response to exercise. Stroke volume undoubtedly increases whenever cardiac output is increased with little change in heart rate (e.g. in athletes or in patients with chronic volume loads on the heart). Tachycardia produced experimentally with an artificial pacemaker in a resting dog causes a marked reduction in diastolic and systolic dimensions and in the stroke change of dimensions. The factors generally postulated to increase stroke volume during normal exercise may prevent the reduction in stroke volume accompanying tachycardia.

Hemodynamic response of normal men to graded treadmill exercise

1964 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burton S. Tabakin ◽  
John S. Hanson ◽  
Thornton W. Merriam ◽  
Edgar J. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Cardiac Output ◽  
Arterial Pressure ◽  
Stroke Volume ◽  
Treadmill Exercise ◽  
Minute Volume ◽  
Peripheral Vascular ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Elimination ◽  
Oxygen Utilization

The physiologic variables defining the circulatory and respiratory state in normal man have been measured in recumbency, standing at rest and during progressively severe grades of exercise approaching near-maximal levels. Indicator-dilution technique was used for determination of cardiac output with simultaneous radio-electrocardiographic recordings of heart rate. Direct intra-arterial pressure measurements were utilized for calculation of peripheral vascular resistance. Minute volume of ventilation, oxygen utilization, and carbon dioxide elimination were obtained from analysis of expired air collected at the time of each cardiac output determination. A peak mean workload of 1,501 kg-m/min was realized during the treadmill exercise. Increases in cardiac output over the range of exercise employed correlated well with indices of workload such as heart rate, oxygen utilization, and minute volume of ventilation. There was no correlation of stroke volume with these indices. It is concluded from examination of individual stroke-volume responses that a progressive increase in stroke volume is not a necessary or constant phenomenon in adapting to increasing workload. cardiac output in treadmill exercise; dye-dilution cardiac output determinations; arterial pressure during upright exercise; stroke-volume response to graded treadmill exercise; exercise response of cardiac output and stroke volume; peripheral vascular resistance response to position and exercise; treadmill exercise—effects on cardiac output, stroke volume, and oxygen uptake; minute ventilation, cardiac output, and stroke volume during exercise; carbon dioxide elimination during treadmill exercise; heart rate and cardiac output during treadmill exercise; exercise; physiology Submitted on July 12, 1963

scholarly journals Cardiac responses to hypoxia and reoxygenation in Drosophila

2015 ◽  
Vol 309 (11) ◽  
pp. R1347-R1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Zarndt ◽  
Sarah Piloto ◽  
Frank L. Powell ◽  
Gabriel G. Haddad ◽  
Rolf Bodmer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Output ◽  
Genetic Model ◽  
Heart Function ◽  
Acute Hypoxia ◽  
Hypoxia Inducible Factor ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Hypoxic Exposure ◽  
Low Oxygen ◽  
Cardiac Responses ◽  
Organ Systems

An adequate supply of oxygen is important for the survival of all tissues, but it is especially critical for tissues with high-energy demands, such as the heart. Insufficient tissue oxygenation occurs under a variety of conditions, including high altitude, embryonic and fetal development, inflammation, and thrombotic diseases, often affecting multiple organ systems. Responses and adaptations of the heart to hypoxia are of particular relevance in human cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, in which the effects of hypoxic exposure can range in severity from transient to long-lasting. This study uses the genetic model system Drosophila to investigate cardiac responses to acute (30 min), sustained (18 h), and chronic (3 wk) hypoxia with reoxygenation. Whereas hearts from wild-type flies recovered quickly after acute hypoxia, exposure to sustained or chronic hypoxia significantly compromised heart function upon reoxygenation. Hearts from flies with mutations in sima, the Drosophila homolog of the hypoxia-inducible factor alpha subunit (HIF-α), exhibited exaggerated reductions in cardiac output in response to hypoxia. Heart function in hypoxia-selected flies, selected over many generations for survival in a low-oxygen environment, revealed reduced cardiac output in terms of decreased heart rate and fractional shortening compared with their normoxia controls. Hypoxia-selected flies also had smaller hearts, myofibrillar disorganization, and increased extracellular collagen deposition, consistent with the observed reductions in contractility. This study indicates that longer-duration hypoxic insults exert deleterious effects on heart function that are mediated, in part, by sima and advances Drosophila models for the genetic analysis of cardiac-specific responses to hypoxia and reoxygenation.

Base-line effects on response of stroke volume to leg exercise in the supine position

1964 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. Frick ◽  
Timo Somer
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Cardiac Output ◽  
Stroke Volume ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Horizontal Position ◽  
Volume Data ◽  
Leg Exercise ◽  
Low Levels

Cardiac output was measured with dye dilution in normal subjects at rest in horizontal position, at rest supine with the legs on the pedals, and during increasing work loads. Experiments were designed to clarify the effect of leg raising on comparisons of stroke volume at various levels of exercise. Leg raising evoked a 19% increase in stroke volume and a decrease in heart rate. Oxygen uptake and A-V O2 difference remained unaltered. In comparing stroke volume at mild exercise with leg-raised resting position, no change occurred contrasting the significant rise when compared with horizontal position. At mild exercise cardiac output response was relatively flat, whereas A-V O2 difference rose sharply. At heavier exercise cardiac output rose more steeply and approximately linear to oxygen consumed. Stroke volumes at these loads were significantly higher than levels in both of the resting positions. Ignorance of the effect of leg raising results in misinterpretation of the stroke volume data at low levels of supine exercise when greatly enhanced tissue extraction of oxygen allows smaller blood flow increments. base line in exercise; exercise stroke volume; stroke volume, exercise; stroke volume, base line; supine exercise Submitted on December 13, 1963

Naive Ducklings Show Different Cardiac Response To Hawk Than To Goose Models

Behaviour ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 74 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia G. Parker ◽  
Helmut C. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cardiac Response ◽  
Specific Experience ◽  
Cardiac Responses

AbstractNaive mallard ducklings were exposed to overflights of a silhouette of either a hawk or a goose on one day and the other configuration on the next day. An audio record of the heart rate was recorded utilizing a small transducer. Most of the ducklings (14 of 20) showed a greater variance in heart rate in response to the hawk than to the goose (p<0.01 ). These results indicate that the ducklings without prior, specific experience can differentiate between a goose and a hawk and show a greater emotional response to the latter. This constitutes evidence for the recognition of configurational stimulus without prior, pertinent experience. The use of cardiac responses as a measure of emotionality or fear is discussed, as are the merits of various measures of changes in heart rate. We conclude that variance in heart rate is an excellent measure of emotional response to a stimulus.

Cardiopulmonary Effects of Intrathoracic Insufflation in Dogs

2002 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 515-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curt M. Daly ◽  
Karen Swalec-Tobias ◽  
Anthony H. Tobias ◽  
Nicole Ehrhart
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Cardiac Output ◽  
Arterial Pressure ◽  
Healthy Adult ◽  
Venous Pressure ◽  
Minute Volume ◽  
Mechanical Ventilator ◽  
Central Venous ◽  
Anesthetized Dogs ◽  
Pressure Standard

This study was designed to quantify the effects of incremental positive insufflation of the intrathoracic space on cardiac output (CO), heart rate (HR), arterial pressure (AP), central venous pressure (CVP), and percent saturation of hemoglobin with oxygen (SPO2) in anesthetized dogs. Seven healthy, adult dogs from terminal teaching laboratories were maintained under anesthesia with isoflurane delivered with a mechanical ventilator. The experimental variables were recorded before introduction of an intrathoracic catheter, at intrathoracic pressures (IP) of 0 mm Hg, 3 mm Hg insufflation, and additional increments of 1 mm Hg insufflation thereafter until the SPO2 remained &lt;85% despite increases in minute volume. Finally the variables were measured again at 0 mm Hg IP. The cardiac output and systolic and diastolic AP significantly (P&lt;0.05) decreased at 3 mm Hg IP. Significant decreases in SPO2 were seen at 10 mm Hg IP. Significant increase in CVP was noted at 6 mm Hg IP. Heart rate decreased significantly at 5 to 6 mm Hg IP but was not decreased above 6 mm Hg IP. Given the degree of CO decrease at low intrathoracic pressures, insufflation-aided thoracoscopy should be used with caution and at the lowest possible insufflation pressure. Standard anesthetic monitoring variables such as HR and AP measurements may not accurately reflect the animal’s cardiovascular status.

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