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Effect of almitrine bismesylate on breathing pattern during hypoxia/hypercapnia in rats and ferrets.

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:1. Ventilatory measurements and functional residual capacity (FRC) were recorded from anaesthetized rats and ferrets using a whole body plethysmograph. Simulation of aspects of human chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD) was attempted by making animals acutely hypoxic or hypoxic and hypercapnic by causing them to breath appropriate gas mixtures or by increasing the tracheal resistance or dead-space. Some chronically hypoxic rats, which have muscularized pulmonary arterioles similar to COAD patients, were also studied. 2. In 18 chronically hypoxic (CH) rats and 17 littermate control rats (C), breathing air, doses of almitrine bismesylate caused greater increases in ventilation (VE) in C than in CH rats. FRC, which was initially greater in CH rats, increased significantly in both groups after almitrine. 3. In C rats, breathing hypoxic or hypoxic/hypercapnic gas mixtures caused large increases in VE. Slow infusions of almitrine caused a further increase in VE usually via an increase in tidal volume (VT) but not frequency (f). 4. In two series of rats (n = 9; n = 6) severe and moderate degrees of tracheal obstruction caused a fall in PaO2 and a rise in PaCO2, a fall in VE due to both VT and f and large changes in oesophageal pressure (Poes), which often became positive on expiration. Almitrine infusions usually caused a rise in PaO2, a rise in VT and no change in f; with moderate obstruction, Poes also rose. The results were thought to depend on the balance between improved ventilation and increased O2 demand of the respiratory muscles. 5. Eleven ferrets were made hypoxic and hypercapnic by adding a large dead-space to the trachea. A slow infusion of almitrine caused a significant rise in PaO2 before any significant change in VE was detected; PaCO2 fell at some time during the infusion, but not significantly. The initial significant rise in PaO2, at 2.5 min, was not associated with significant changes in T1 (time of inspiration) and VT/TI. At 5 min VT/TI and PaO2 were all significantly altered. 6. Infusions of almitrine into hypoxic and hypercapnic animals caused improvements in the arterial oxygen tension which were associated with subtle changes in the breathing pattern; inspiratory time and inspiratory flow rate changed in the absence of an increase in total VE. Possible conclusions with respect to the action of almitrine in patients with COAD are discussed.

journal_name

Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol

journal_title

Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors

Austin CA,Wach RA,Bee D,Finlay M,Emery CJ,Suggett AJ,Barer GR

doi

10.1111/j.1440-1681.1987.tb02420.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1987-11-01 00:00:00

pages

837-50

issue

11-12

eissn

0305-1870

issn

1440-1681

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Effect of almitrine bismesylate on breathing pattern during hypoxia/hypercapnia in rats and ferrets.