Simultaneous assessment of central and peripheral chemoreflex regulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity and ventilation in healthy young men
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Key points Central chemoreceptor stimulation, by hypercapnia (acidosis), and peripheral, by hypoxia plus hypercapnia, evoke reflex increases in ventilation and sympathetic outflow. The assumption that central or peripheral chemoreceptor‐mediated sympathetic activation elicited when increases parallels concurrent ventilatory responses is unproven. Applying a modified rebreathing protocol that equilibrates central and peripheral chemoreceptor whilst clamping O 2 tension at either hypoxic or hyperoxic concentrations, the independent ventilatory and muscle sympathetic stimulus–response properties of the central and peripheral chemoreflexes were quantified and compared in young men. The novel findings were that ventilatory and sympathetic responses to central and peripheral chemoreflex stimulation are initiated at similar recruitment thresholds but individual specific sympathetic responsiveness cannot be predicted from the ventilatory sensitivities of either chemoreceptor reflex. Such findings in young men, if replicated in heart failure or hypertension, should temper present enthusiasm for trials targeting the peripheral chemoreflex based solely on ventilatory responsiveness to non‐specific chemoreceptor stimulation. Abstract In humans, stimulation of peripheral or central chemoreceptor reflexes is assumed to evoke equivalent ventilatory and sympathetic responses. We evaluated whether central or peripheral chemoreceptor‐mediated sympathetic activation elicited by increases in CO 2 tension ( ) parallels concurrent ventilatory responses. Twelve healthy young men performed a modified rebreathing protocol designed to equilibrate central and peripheral chemoreceptor tensions with end‐tidal ( ) at two isoxic end‐tidal ( ) such that central responses can be segregated, by hyperoxia, from the net response (hypoxia minus hyperoxia). Ventilation and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) were recorded continuously during rebreathing at isoxic of 150 and 50 mmHg. During rebreathing, the values at which ventilation (L min −1 ) and total MSNA (units) began to rise were identified ( recruitment thresholds) and their slopes above the recruitment threshold were determined (sensitivity). The central chemoreflex recruitment threshold for ventilation (46 ± 3 mmHg) and MSNA (45 ± 4 mmHg) did not differ ( P = 0.55) and slopes were 2.3 ± 0.9 L min −1 mmHg −1 and 2.1 ± 1.5 units mmHg −1 , respectively. The peripheral chemoreflex recruitment thresholds, at 41 ± 3 mmHg for both ventilation and MSNA were lower ( P < 0.05) compared to the central chemoreflex recruitment thresholds. Peripheral chemoreflex sensitivity was 1.7 ± 0.1 L min −1 mmHg −1 for ventilation and 2.9 ± 2.6 units mmHg −1 for MSNA. There was no relationship between the ventilatory and MSNA sensitivity for either the central ( r 2 = 0.01, P = 0.76) or peripheral ( r 2 = 0.01, P = 0.73) chemoreflex. In healthy young men, ventilatory and sympathetic responses to central and peripheral chemoreceptor reflex stimulation are initiated at similar recruitment thresholds but individual ventilatory responsiveness does not predict sympathetic sensitivities of either chemoreflex.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".