Respiratory plasticity after perinatal hyperoxia is not prevented by antioxidant supplementation

Autor: Elizabeth F. Dmitrieff, E. Burt Olson, Julie M. Wenninger, Gerald E. Bisgard, Ryan W. Bavis, Gordon S. Mitchell, Brooke M. Miller
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2007
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Popis: Perinatal hyperoxia attenuates the hypoxic ventilatory response in rats by altering development of the carotid body and its chemoafferent neurons. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that hyperoxia elicits this maladaptive plasticity through the increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Rats were born and raised in 60% O2 for the first two postnatal weeks while treated with one of two antioxidants: vitamin E (via milk from mothers whose diet was enriched with 1000 IU vitamin E kg−1) or a superoxide dismutase mimetic, manganese (III) tetrakis (1-methyl-4-pyridyl) porphyrin pentachloride (MnTMPyP; via daily intraperitoneal injection of 5–10 mg kg−1); rats were subsequently raised in room air until studied as adults. Peripheral chemoreflexes, assessed by carotid sinus nerve responses to cyanide, asphyxia, anoxia and isocapnic hypoxia (vitamin E experiments) or by hypoxic ventilatory responses (MnTMPyP experiments), were reduced after perinatal hyperoxia compared to those of normoxia-reared controls (all P
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