Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Respiratory Response to Carbon Dioxide in Man

  • Letter
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Abstract

IN the course of our investigation on the respiratory regulation in man at high altitudes in the Himalayas1 it was observed that the respiratory response of the Indian subject to carbon dioxide was lower than the European2. The unit of carbon dioxide response (pulmonary ventilation, 1/min/mm mercury) is such that it should ultimately be related to the metabolic rate or the body weight. The body weight of the Indian subject was smaller (56 kg), and it was thought that his apparently low response to carbon dioxide may have been caused by his lower body weight.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Lahiri, S., and Milledge, J. S., Nature, 207, 610 (1965).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Cunningham, D. J. C., Patrick, J. M., and Lloyd, B. B., Oxygen in the Animal Organism (edit. by Dickens, F., and Neil, E.) (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1964).

    Google Scholar 

  3. Lloyd, B. B., Jukes, M. G. M., and Cunningham, D. J. C., Quart. J. Exp. Physiol., 43, 214 (1958).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Physiology, Presidency College, Calcutta, 12, India

    S. LAHIRI, H. P. CHATTOPADHYAY, ASHIS SINHA & P. C. KARMAKAR

Authors
  1. S. LAHIRI
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. H. P. CHATTOPADHYAY
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. ASHIS SINHA
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. P. C. KARMAKAR
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

LAHIRI, S., CHATTOPADHYAY, H., SINHA, A. et al. Respiratory Response to Carbon Dioxide in Man. Nature 213, 393–394 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213393a0

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/213393a0

  • Springer Nature Limited

Search

Navigation