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  • Title: Arousal responses of the newborn piglet to airways obstruction and rebreathing during normothermia and hyperthermia.
    Author: Galland BC, Wehner NS, Bolton DP, Taylor BJ.
    Journal: Reprod Fertil Dev; 1996; 8(3):365-71. PubMed ID: 8795098.
    Abstract:
    Most experimental studies of arousal to respiratory stressors have been performed under neutral thermal conditions. The present study focussed on arousal responses with the added challenge of heat stress. The subjects were two groups of 10 sedated piglets aged 4-6 days and 2-6 days respectively. Respiratory stimuli (partial and total airways obstruction (AO) or rebreathing (RB) expired gases) were applied during non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep. Measurements of heart rate, SaO2, intra-pleural pressure or inspired CO2 and O2 were recorded during tests in normothermia and hyperthermia. Hyperthermia significantly shortened the time to arousal. Thus, arousal times from partial and total AO and from RB were: in normothermia, 40.3 +/- 5.8, 9.2 +/- 0.7 and 94.9 +/- 14.7 s respectively; in hyperthermia, 17.8 +/- 3.7, 7.6 +/- 0.9 and 68.5 +/- 9.1 s respectively. Cardio-respiratory variables at arousal were similar in both thermal states. Seven non-sedated piglets were challenged with RB stimuli during normothermia only to determine the influence of sleep state on arousal. Arousal in REM sleep was delayed approximately 2-3-fold (NREM, 41.2 +/- 8.2 s; REM, 88.5 +/- 18.1 s), occurring at a lower SaO2 and higher inspired CO2. It is concluded that arousal from NREM sleep under adverse conditions of hyperthermia shortens the arousal time from asphyxial stimuli induced by AO and RB with no change in the arousal threshold.
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