Abstract:
:Many critically ill patients in intensive care units suffer from an infection-induced whole body inflammatory state known as sepsis, which causes severe weakness in patients who survive. The mechanisms by which sepsis triggers intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW) remain unclear. Currently, research into ICUAW is focused on dysfunction of the peripheral nervous system. During electromyographic studies of patients with ICUAW, we noticed that recruitment was limited to few motor units, which fired at low rates. The reduction in motor unit rate modulation suggested that functional impairment within the central nervous system contributes to ICUAW. To understand better the mechanism underlying reduced firing motor unit firing rates, we moved to the rat cecal ligation and puncture model of sepsis. In isoflurane-anesthetized rats, we studied the response of spinal motoneurons to injected current to determine their capacity for initiating and firing action potentials repetitively. Properties of single action potentials and passive membrane properties of motoneurons from septic rats were normal, suggesting excitability was normal. However, motoneurons exhibited striking dysfunction during repetitive firing. The sustained firing that underlies normal motor unit activity and smooth force generation was slower, more erratic, and often intermittent in septic rats. Our data are the first to suggest that reduced excitability of neurons within the central nervous system may contribute to ICUAW.
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J Neurophysioljournal_title
Journal of neurophysiologyauthors
Nardelli P,Khan J,Powers R,Cope TC,Rich MMdoi
10.1152/jn.00936.2012subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-04-01 00:00:00pages
1775-81issue
7eissn
0022-3077issn
1522-1598pii
jn.00936.2012journal_volume
109pub_type
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