Pre- and post-inspiratory neurons change their firing properties in female rats exposed to chronic intermittent hypoxia.
Neuroscience
; 406: 467-486, 2019 05 15.
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ABSTRACT
Obstructive sleep apnea patients face episodes of chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH), which has been suggested as a causative factor for increased sympathetic activity (SNA) and hypertension. Female rats exposed to CIH develop hypertension and exhibit changes in respiratory-sympathetic coupling, marked by an increase in the inspiratory modulation of SNA. We tested the hypothesis that enhanced inspiratory-modulation of SNA is dependent on carotid bodies (CBs) and are associated with changes in respiratory network activity. For this, in CIH-female rats we evaluated the effect of CBs ablation on respiratory-sympathetic coupling, recorded from respiratory neurons in the working heart-brainstem preparation and from NTS neurons in brainstem slices. CIH-female rats had an increase in peripheral chemoreflex response and in spontaneous excitatory neurotransmission in NTS. CBs ablation prevents the increase in inspiratory modulation of SNA in CIH-female rats. Pre-inspiratory/inspiratory (Pre-I/I) neurons of CIH-female rats have a reduced firing frequency. Post-inspiratory neurons are active for a longer period during expiration in CIH-female rats. Further, using the computational model of a brainstem respiratory-sympathetic network, we demonstrate that a reduction in Pre-I/I neuron firing frequency simulates the enhanced inspiratory SNA modulation in CIH-female rats. We conclude that changes in respiratory-sympathetic coupling in CIH-female rats is dependent on CBs and it is associated with changes in firing properties of specific respiratory neurons types.
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Inalação
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Potenciais Pós-Sinápticos Excitadores
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Hipóxia
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Rede Nervosa
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Neurônios
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Prognostic_studies
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Animals
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En
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Neuroscience
Ano de publicação:
2019
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Article