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RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROBIOLOGY
Volume 173, Issue 3, Pages 201-212Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2010.04.009
Keywords
Central chemoreception; Ventilatory response to CO2; Fetal breathing; Development
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- NIH [5P01 HD036379-12]
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Central chemoreception is active early in development and likely drives fetal breathing movements, which are influenced by a combination of behavioral state and powerful inhibition. In the premature human infant and newborn rat ventilation increases in response to CO2; in the rat the sensitivity of the response increases steadily after similar to P12. The premature human infant is more vulnerable to instability than the newborn rat and exhibits periodic breathing that is augmented by hypoxia and eliminated by breathing oxygen or CO2 or the administration of respiratory stimulants. The sites of central chemoreception active in the fetus are not known, but may involve the parafacial respiratory group which may be a precursor to the adult RTN. The fetal and neonatal rat brainstem-spinal-cord preparations promise to provide important information about central chemoreception in the developing rodent and will increase our understanding of important clinical problems, including The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome, and periodic breathing and apnea of prematurity. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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