Effects of Willful Ventilatory Control on Respiratory Sensation during Hypercapnia

Oku, Yoshitaka; Saidel, Gerald M.; Cherniack, Neil S.; Altose, Murray D.

doi:10.1159/000196533

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“…without muscle contraction (Gleeson et al 1990; Berry & Gleeson, 1997). This is very much akin to the mechanisms involved in sensing dyspnoea, which are thought to involve the cortical transmission of an efferent copy of respiratory motor neural activity (Oku et al 1996).…”

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Influence of arousal threshold and depth of sleep on respiratory stability in man: analysis using a mathematical model

Longobardo

Evangelisti

Cherniack

2009

Experimental Physiology

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We examined the effect of arousals (shifts from sleep to wakefulness) on breathing during sleep using a mathematical model. The model consisted of a description of the fluid dynamics and mechanical properties of the upper airways and lungs, as well as a controller sensitive to arterial and brain changes in CO 2 , changes in arterial oxygen, and a neural input, alertness. The body was divided into multiple gas store compartments connected by the circulation. Cardiac output was constant, and cerebral blood flows were sensitive to changes in O 2 and CO 2 levels. Arousal was considered to occur instantaneously when afferent respiratory chemical and neural stimulation reached a threshold value, while sleep occurred when stimulation fell below that value. In the case of rigid and nearly incompressible upper airways, lowering arousal threshold decreased the stability of breathing and led to the occurrence of repeated apnoeas. In more compressible upper airways, to maintain stability, increasing arousal thresholds and decreasing elasticity were linked approximately linearly, until at low elastances arousal thresholds had no effect on stability. Increased controller gain promoted instability. The architecture of apnoeas during unstable sleep changed with the arousal threshold and decreases in elasticity. With rigid airways, apnoeas were central. With lower elastances, apnoeas were mixed even with higher arousal thresholds. With very low elastances and still higher arousal thresholds, sleep consisted totally of obstructed apnoeas. Cycle lengths shortened as the sleep architecture changed from mixed apnoeas to total obstruction. Deeper sleep also tended to promote instability by increasing plant gain. These instabilities could be countered by arousal threshold increases which were tied to deeper sleep or accumulated aroused time, or by decreased controller gains.

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