Abstract
Exposure to acute intermittent hypoxia (AIH) elicits a form of respiratory plasticity known as long-term facilitation (LTF). Interest has grown in developing AIH interventions to treat ventilatory insufficiency, with promising results in spinal cord injury and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Therapeutic AIH may have application in neuromuscular disorders including muscular dystrophies. We sought to establish hypoxic ventilatory responsiveness and the expression of ventilatory LTF in X-linked muscular dystrophy (mdx) mice.
Experiments were performed in 15 male wild-type (BL10) and 15 male mdx mice at 4 months of age. Ventilation was assessed using whole-body plethysmography. Baseline measures of ventilation and metabolism were established. Mice were exposed to 10 successive bouts of hypoxia, each lasting 5 min, interspersed with 5-min bouts of normoxia. Measurements were taken for 60 min following termination of AIH.
In mdx mice, ventilation was significantly increased 60 min post-AIH compared to baseline. However, metabolic CO2 production was also increased. Therefore, ventilatory equivalent was unaffected by AIH exposure, i.e., no ventilatory LTF manifestation. In wild-type mice, ventilation and metabolism were not affected by AIH.
Eliciting ventilatory LTF is dependent on many factors and may require concomitant isocapnia or hypercapnia during AIH exposures and/or repeated daily AIH exposures, which is worthy of further pursuit.
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Maxwell, M.N., Marullo, A.L., Slyne, A.D., Lucking, E.F., O’Halloran, K.D. (2023). Ventilatory Effects of Acute Intermittent Hypoxia in Conscious Dystrophic Mice. In: Conde, S.V., Iturriaga, R., del Rio, R., Gauda, E., Monteiro, E.C. (eds) Arterial Chemoreceptors. ISAC XXI 2022. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1427. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32371-3_9
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