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  • Title: Respiratory and circulatory effects of breathing 100 per cent oxygen in the new-born lamb before and after denervation of the carotid chemoreceptors.
    Author: Purves MJ.
    Journal: J Physiol; 1966 Jul; 185(1):42-59. PubMed ID: 5965897.
    Abstract:
    1. Methods are described for measuring tidal volume and frequency, end-tidal CO(2), blood pressure and heart rate, and arterial gas tensions in the unanaesthetized new-born lamb.2. The resting values of minute ventilation (V)/kg body wt. and arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide tension, (P(a, o2)) and (P(a, CO2)) were similar to those which have been reported in the new-born baby. There was a direct and significant relation between P(a, o2) and P(a, CO2) and the age of the lamb.3. Thirty-five unanaesthetized lambs aged 40 min to 10 days breathed 100% oxygen; minute ventilation fell by an average of 19% of control, end-tidal CO(2) increased and the ratio of change in tidal volume (DeltaV(T)) to change in pressure (DeltaP) (DeltaV(T)/DeltaP) remained constant. In a proportion of lambs, a small decrease in blood pressure and heart rate was observed. The effect of breathing 100% O(2) on lung compliance was variable.4. These changes in ventilation were virtually abolished after both sinus nerves had been cut.5. The results therefore suggest that a significant hypoxic drive to ventilation exists in the new-born lamb and that this drive is mediated by functioning and mature peripheral chemoreceptors.6. Preliminary evidence suggested that, on 100% O(2), the sensitivity of new-born lambs to inhaled CO(2) was reduced.
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