• Respir Physiol Neurobiol · Aug 2003

    Hypothermia-induced respiratory arrest and recovery in neonatal rats.

    • Glenn J Tattersall and William K Milsom.
    • Department of Biology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ont., Canada L2S 3A1. gtatters@brocku.ca
    • Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2003 Aug 14;137(1):29-40.

    AbstractTo examine the changes in breathing that occur during progressive hypothermia and rewarming in neonatal rats, we cooled and rewarmed rat pups during the first 6 days of life. During cooling, breathing stopped when rectal temperature (Tr) fell below 10.7+/-0.24 degrees C, and recovered spontaneously during rewarming when Tr reached 13.3+/-0.38 degrees C, regardless of age. During cooling, breathing frequency declined progressively, whereas tidal volume increased until Tr fell below 15 degrees C whence it declined to, but never below, normothermic levels. These data support suggestions that failure occurs at the level of the central rhythm generator for breathing and is not due to an inability to sustain the level of motor output. During rewarming, following respiratory arrest, the pattern of change was reversed, but with a significant thermal hysteresis, resulting in slower breathing and cardiac frequencies at any given rectal temperature during rewarming. There were no effects of age observed over the range studied on the changes in respiratory variables associated with hypothermia or rewarming. Breathing restarted spontaneously on rewarming with no evidence that gasping was required to initiate this process. The overall breathing pattern was episodic during the early stages of rewarming, however, suggesting that the respiratory rhythm is only periodically expressed during the initial stages of recovery from hypothermia.

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