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FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.645392
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anesthesia-general; acute intermittent hypoxia; Sprague Dawley rat; blood glucose; glucoregulatory circuit; pentobarbital
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- Rebecca L. Cooper Foundation
- Heart Research Institute
- University of Sydney
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This study found that the glucose response to intermittent hypoxia in anesthetized rats is suppressed compared to conscious rats. It suggests that pentobarbital anesthesia is unsuitable for investigating glycemic response pathways to intermittent hypoxia in rats.
A key feature of sleep disordered breathing syndromes, such as obstructive sleep apnea is intermittent hypoxia. Intermittent hypoxia is well accepted to drive the sympathoexcitation that is frequently associated with hypertension and diabetes, with measurable effects after just 1 h. The aim of this study was to directly measure the glucose response to 1 h of acute intermittent hypoxia in pentobarbital anesthetized rats, compared to conscious rats. However, we found that while a glucose response is measurable in conscious rats exposed to intermittent hypoxia, it is suppressed in anesthetized rats. Intermittent hypoxia for 1, 2, or 8 h increased blood glucose by 0.7 +/- 0.1 mmol/L in conscious rats but had no effect in anesthetized rats (-0.1 +/- 0.2 mmol/L). These results were independent of the frequency of the hypoxia challenges, fasting state, vagotomy, or paralytic agents. A supraphysiological challenge of 3 min of hypoxia was able to induce a glycemic response indicating that the reflex response is not abolished under pentobarbital anesthesia. We conclude that pentobarbital anesthesia is unsuitable for investigations into glycemic response pathways in response to intermittent hypoxia in rats.
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