[Hyperventilation and inhibitory synapses]. / Giperventiliatsiia i tormoznye sinapsy.

ABSTRACT

Injection of subconvulsive doses of strychnine blocking the inhibitory synapses significantly increases the reflex activity of the respiratory muscle evoked by stimulation of the sciatic nerve as well as by inhalation of hypercapnic gas mixture. Thus the inhibitory synapses prevent the extreme hypocapnia evoked by hyperventilation.