TY - JOUR
T1 - Responses of in vitro rat diaphragm to changes in acid-base environment
AU - Fitzgerald, R. S.
AU - Hauer, M. C.
AU - Bierkamper, G. G.
AU - Raff, H.
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PY - 1984
Y1 - 1984
N2 - In vitro rat diaphragms initially demonstrated a decrease in the force of the twitch contraction (FC) in response to field electrode stimulation when exposed to an unbuffered increase in P(CO2) (UIP(CO2)). These diaphragms tended to regain their initial FC upon addition of a β-agonist even while the increased P(CO2) perdured. The effect of the agonist could be reversed by propranolol. Four hemidiaphragms were bathed in a medium containing curare and exposed to UIP(CO2). Their tension values were compared to the opposite sides bathed without curare and exposed to UIP(CO2) of the same intensity and duration. There was no statistically significant difference in the response. Subsequently 10 rat diaphragms were each systematically challenged by UIP(CO2), buffered increases in P(CO2) (BIP(CO2)), unbuffered decreases in bicarbonate (UDHCO3), and buffered decreases in bicarbonate (BDHCO3) first without and then with isoproterenol (10-6 M). Without isoproterenol all four challenges after 15-min exposure produced a decrease in FC, the least by BIP(CO2); the largest, by UDHCO3. Upon addition of isoproterenol, FC actually increased during BIP(CO2); the decreases in FC in response to UIP(CO2) and UDHCO3 were abolished; the FC in response to BDHCO3 was still decreased, but less severely. The effect of the isoproterenol was not due to its following the four challenges without isoproterenol. The different magnitudes in the FC response and the presumed lack of uniform change in intracellular pH during the four challenges suggest the possibility that different components in the sarcolemma, or in the excitation-contraction coupling mechanisms responsible for the genesis of the FC are affected by the four challenges, but the nerve or neuromuscular junction may also be affected.
AB - In vitro rat diaphragms initially demonstrated a decrease in the force of the twitch contraction (FC) in response to field electrode stimulation when exposed to an unbuffered increase in P(CO2) (UIP(CO2)). These diaphragms tended to regain their initial FC upon addition of a β-agonist even while the increased P(CO2) perdured. The effect of the agonist could be reversed by propranolol. Four hemidiaphragms were bathed in a medium containing curare and exposed to UIP(CO2). Their tension values were compared to the opposite sides bathed without curare and exposed to UIP(CO2) of the same intensity and duration. There was no statistically significant difference in the response. Subsequently 10 rat diaphragms were each systematically challenged by UIP(CO2), buffered increases in P(CO2) (BIP(CO2)), unbuffered decreases in bicarbonate (UDHCO3), and buffered decreases in bicarbonate (BDHCO3) first without and then with isoproterenol (10-6 M). Without isoproterenol all four challenges after 15-min exposure produced a decrease in FC, the least by BIP(CO2); the largest, by UDHCO3. Upon addition of isoproterenol, FC actually increased during BIP(CO2); the decreases in FC in response to UIP(CO2) and UDHCO3 were abolished; the FC in response to BDHCO3 was still decreased, but less severely. The effect of the isoproterenol was not due to its following the four challenges without isoproterenol. The different magnitudes in the FC response and the presumed lack of uniform change in intracellular pH during the four challenges suggest the possibility that different components in the sarcolemma, or in the excitation-contraction coupling mechanisms responsible for the genesis of the FC are affected by the four challenges, but the nerve or neuromuscular junction may also be affected.
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U2 - 10.1152/jappl.1984.57.4.1202
DO - 10.1152/jappl.1984.57.4.1202
M3 - Article
C2 - 6438030
AN - SCOPUS:0021709785
SN - 0161-7567
VL - 57
SP - 1202
EP - 1210
JO - Journal of Applied Physiology Respiratory Environmental and Exercise Physiology
JF - Journal of Applied Physiology Respiratory Environmental and Exercise Physiology
IS - 4
ER -