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The response patterns of the electrical activity of the respiratory motor nerves and muscles to brief electrical stimulation of the arterial and the intracranial chemosensory afferents were studied in anesthetized cats. Stimulation during inspiration increased the activity of phrenic nerve and the inspiratory muscles (intercostal, diaphragm) with a latency of 15–25 ms, whereas expiratory muscle activity in the following expiration remained almost unaltered. Stimulation during expiration increased the activity of expiratory nerves and muscles (intercostal, abdominal) after a delay of 80–120 ms. The later the stimulation occurred in the insor expiratory period the larger the increase in amplitude and in steepness of rise of the respective integrated activity in respiratory nerves and muscles. Stimulation in early inspiration shortened the discharge period of inspiratory muscles, whereas excitation in early expiration caused an earlier onset and prolonged the activity in the expiratory muscles. Stimulation in the late phase of ins- or expiration prolonged the discharge of the respective nerves and muscles. Both the arterial (carotid sinus nerve, CSN, and aortic nerve, AN) and intracranial chemosensory (VM) afferents stimuli were able to affect both the inspiratory and the expiratory mechanisms. The restriction of the effects to the phase of the stimulus suggests a mechanism by which these afferents, when activated during inspiration, effectively project only to inspiratory neurones, and vice versa for expiration.
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Marek, W., Prabhakar, N.R. Electrical stimulation of arterial and central chemosensory afferents at different times in the respiratory cycle of the cat: II. Responses of respiratory muscles and their motor nerves. Pflugers Arch. 403, 422–428 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00589256
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