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  • Title: [The role of afferent barosensory neurons in respiratory and bronchomotor control].
    Author: Jammes Y, Delpierre S, Vanuxem P, Vanuxem D, Grimaud C.
    Journal: Arch Int Physiol Biochim; 1975 Feb; 83(1):1-14. PubMed ID: 50768.
    Abstract:
    Ventilatory and bronchomotor responses to baroreceptor afferent stimulation were studied in anaesthetized rabbits breathing spontaneously. The stimuli used were either the increase in carotid sinus pressure or the electrical stimulation of the cut central end of the aortic nerve. Respiratory effects of aortic barodenervation were also studied. Normoxic, normocapnic steady state was verified by repeated measurement of PO2, PCO2 and pH in arterial blood. Stimulation of both aortic and carotid baroreceptors provoked an early decrease of tidal volume and total pulmonary resistances without change in respiratory frequency. Aortic nerve stimulation induced an important and slowly adapting ventilatory and bronchomotor effect, whereas changes in carotid sinus pressure produced slight variation in respiratory parameters. Aortic nerve section resulted in an early and prolonged increase of total pulmonary resistances. Surgical or chemical (atropine) vagotomy did not change the bronchodilation observed under stimulation of the carotid sinus; however this effect was suppressed by intravenous injection of propranolol. This observation shows the importance of the sympathetic outflow in the genesis of bronchomotor responses following baroreceptor stimulation. In conclusion the baroreceptor stimulation provokes simultaneous decrease of both ventilation and total pulmonary resistances; aortic nerves seemed to exert permanent control on bronchomotor tone.
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