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  • Title: Sensitivity of the carotid body to within-breath changes in arterial PCO2.
    Author: Band DM, McClelland M, Phillips DL, Saunders KB, Wolff CB.
    Journal: J Appl Physiol Respir Environ Exerc Physiol; 1978 Nov; 45(5):768-77. PubMed ID: 32161.
    Abstract:
    Respiration, sinus nerve chemoreceptor discharge, and carotid arterial pH were monitored in cats. Chemoreceptor discharge frequency showed oscillations that had a respiratory period when averaged over many respiratory cycles. These oscillations disappeared when pH oscillations of respiratory period were eliminated from the carotid arterial blood. The maximum sinus nerve discharge was associated with the most acid point of the recorded pH oscillation. Briefly increasing PCO2 by giving CO2-rich saline into the aortic root resulted in brief reduction in carotid arterial pH, and when this reduction occurred during inspiration tidal volume increased, even with a pH change no larger than the pH oscillations. However, increased chemoreceptor discharge could only be demonstrated when each pH change had twice the amplitude of the pH oscillations. Injections of fixed acid mixed with free carbonic anhydrase transiently increased chemoreceptor frequency, whereas injections of fixed acid alone had no effect. The carotid body is therefore sensitive to small rapid changes in arterial PCO2, and the pH electrode record indicates the size of the stimulus except when fixed acid changes are produced too closely upstream.
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