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Role of Respiratory Motor Output in Within-Breath Modulation of Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Humans
From the Departments of Preventive Medicine (C.M.S., M.S., J.A.D.), Surgery (B.J.M.), and Medicine (J.B.S.), University of Wisconsin and the Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wis.
Correspondence to Jerome A. Dempsey, PhD, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 504 N Walnut St, Madison, WI 53705. E-mail jdempsey{at}facstaff.wisc.edu
Abstract—We measured muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA, peroneal microneurography) in 5 healthy humans under conditions of matched tidal volume, breathing frequency, and end-tidal CO2, but varying respiratory motor output as follows: (1) passive positive pressure mechanical ventilation, (2) voluntary hyperventilation, (3) assisted mechanical ventilation that required the subject to generate –2.5 cm H2O to trigger each positive pressure breath, and (4) added inspiratory resistance. Spectral analyses showed marked respiratory periodicities in MSNA; however, the amplitude of the peak power was not changed with changing inspiratory effort. Time domain analyses showed that maximum MSNA always occurred at end expiration (25% to 30% of total activity) and minimum activity at end inspiration (2% to 3% of total activity), and the amplitude of the variation was not different among conditions despite marked changes in respiratory motor output. Furthermore, qualitative changes in intrathoracic pressure were without influence on the respiratory modulation of MSNA. In all conditions, within-breath changes in MSNA were inversely related to small changes in diastolic pressure (1 to 3 mm Hg), suggesting that respiratory rhythmicity in MSNA was secondary to loading/unloading of carotid sinus baroreceptors. Furthermore, at any given diastolic pressure, within-breath MSNA varied inversely with lung volume, demonstrating an additional influence of lung inflation feedback on sympathetic discharge. Our data provide evidence against a significant effect of respiratory motor output on the within-breath modulation of MSNA and suggest that feedback from baroreceptors and pulmonary stretch receptors are the dominant determinants of the respiratory modulation of MSNA in the intact human.
Key Words: autonomic nervous system • cardiorespiratory interaction • positive pressure ventilation
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