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Navarro K, Jampachaisri K, Chu D, Pacharinsak C. Bupivacaine as a euthanasia agent for African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus laevis). PLoS One 2022; 17:e0279331. [PMID: 36542627 PMCID: PMC9770357 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Immersion in tricaine methanesulfonate (i.e. TMS) has been used for euthanasia of Xenopus laevis (African Clawed frogs). However, the time for preparation and potential human health hazards may pose as a barrier for large group culls. Here, we aimed to investigate whether immersion in bupivacaine is an effective means to euthanize this species. In experiment one, frogs (n = 10/group) were randomly assigned to 1-h immersion in 1 of 3 treatment groups: 1) TMS-5 (MS-222, 5g/L); 2) TMS-10 (MS-222, 10 g/L); or 3) Bupi-1.5 (0.5% Bupivacaine, 1.5 g/L). Frogs were then removed from solutions, rinsed with system water, and placed into a recovery cage. Heart rate was evaluated audibly via doppler ultrasound flow over 1 min at immediate removal (T1h), at 2 (T2h), and 3 (T3h) h in the recovery cage. In experiment two, frogs (n = 7/group) underwent 5-h & 19-h immersion in either TMS-5 or Bupi-1.5, with heart rate assessment at 5 and 19 hrs. Righting reflex and withdrawal reflex of the hindlimb were tested during the experiments. Experiment one-after the 1-h immersion, Bupi-1.5 treated animals had decreased heart rates compared to TMS-5 and TMS-10 treated animals by T2h. Neither TMS-5, TMS-10, nor Bupi-1.5 ceased heart rate after the 1-h immersion. Experiment two-after the 5-h immersion, Bupi-1.5 and TMS-5 treated animals were comparable in heart rates. 43% of TMS-5 animals and 14% of the Bupi-1.5 animals had completely ceased heart rates at T5h. At 19 h all remaining animals exhibited rigor mortis and had ceased heart rate. We recommend 19-h of immersion using either TMS-5 or Bupi-1.5 for cessation of heart rate in African Clawed frogs. These data are strong support for the use of secondary physical methods for euthanasia in African Clawed frogs when euthanasia by immersion is performed.
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- Kaela Navarro
- Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Mathematics, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Phitsanulok Province, Thailand
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- Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Phillips JR, Hewes AE, Womack MC, Schwenk K. The mechanics of air-breathing in African clawed frog tadpoles, Xenopus laevis (Anura: Pipidae). J Exp Biol 2022; 225:275188. [PMID: 35481476 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.243102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Frog larvae (tadpoles) undergo many physiological, morphological, and behavioral transformations through development before metamorphosing into their adult form. The surface tension of water prevents small tadpoles from breaching the surface to breathe air (including those of Xenopus laevis), forcing them to acquire air using a form of breathing called bubble-sucking. With growth, tadpoles typically make a behavioral/biomechanical transition). X. laevis tadpoles have also been shown to transition physiologically from conforming passively to ambient oxygen levels to actively regulating their blood oxygen. However, it is unknown whether these mechanical and physiological breathing transitions are temporally or functionally linked, or how both transitions relate to lung maturation and gas exchange competency. If these transitions are linked, it could mean that one biomechanical breathing mode (breaching) is more physiologically proficient at acquiring gaseous oxygen than the other. Here, we describe the mechanics and development of air-breathing and the ontogeny of lung morphology in X. laevis throughout the larval stage and examine our findings considering previous physiological work. We find that the transitions from bubble-sucking to breaching and from oxygen conforming to oxygen regulation co-occur in X. laevis tadpoles at the same larval stage (Nieuwkoop-Faber stages 53-56 and 54-57, respectively), but that the lungs do not increase significantly in vascularization until metamorphosis, suggesting that lung maturation, alone, is not sufficient to account for increased pulmonary capacity earlier in development. Although breach-breathing may confer a respiratory advantage, we remain unaware of a mechanistic explanation to account for this possibility. At present, the transition from bubble-sucking to breaching appears simply to be a consequence of growth. Finally, we consider our results in the context of comparative air-breathing mechanics across vertebrates.
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- Jackson R Phillips
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3043, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3043, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3043, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3043, USA
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McWhinnie RB, Sckrabulis JP, Raffel TR. Temperature and mass scaling affect cutaneous and pulmonary respiratory performance in a diving frog. Integr Zool 2021; 16:712-728. [PMID: 34002945 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Global climate change is altering patterns of temperature variation, with unpredictable consequences for species and ecosystems. The Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) provides a powerful framework for predicting climate change impacts on ectotherm metabolic performance. MTE postulates that physiological and ecological processes are limited by organism metabolic rates, which scale predictably with body mass and temperature. The purpose of this study was to determine if different metabolic proxies generate different empirical estimates of key MTE model parameters for the aquatic frog Xenopus laevis when allowed to exhibit normal diving behavior. We used a novel methodological approach in combining a flow-through respirometry setup with the open-source Arduino platform to measure mass and temperature effects on 4 different proxies for whole-body metabolism (total O2 consumption, cutaneous O2 consumption, pulmonary O2 consumption, and ventilation frequency), following thermal acclimation to one of 3 temperatures (8°C, 17°C, or 26°C). Different metabolic proxies generated different mass-scaling exponents (b) and activation energy (EA ) estimates, highlighting the importance of metabolic proxy selection when parameterizing MTE-derived models. Animals acclimated to 17°C had higher O2 consumption across all temperatures, but thermal acclimation did not influence estimates of key MTE parameters EA and b. Cutaneous respiration generated lower MTE parameters than pulmonary respiration, consistent with temperature and mass constraints on dissolved oxygen availability, SA:V ratios, and diffusion distances across skin. Our results show that the choice of metabolic proxy can have a big impact on empirical estimates for key MTE model parameters.
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- Ryan B McWhinnie
- Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA
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Phillips JR, Hewes AE, Schwenk K. The mechanics of air breathing in gray tree frog tadpoles, Hyla versicolor (Anura: Hylidae). J Exp Biol 2020; 223:jeb219311. [PMID: 32041808 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.219311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2019] [Accepted: 02/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We describe air-breathing mechanics in gray tree frog tadpoles (Hyla versicolor). We found that H. versicolor tadpoles breathe by 'bubble-sucking', a breathing mode typically employed by tadpoles too small to break the water's surface tension, in which a bubble is drawn into the buccal cavity and compressed into the lungs. In most tadpoles, bubble-sucking is replaced by breach breathing (breaking the surface to access air) at larger body sizes. In contrast, H. versicolor tadpoles bubble-suck throughout the larval period, despite reaching body sizes at which breaching is possible. Hyla versicolor tadpoles exhibit two bubble-sucking behaviors: 'single bubble-sucking', previously described in other tadpole species, is characterized by a single suction event followed by a compression phase to fill the lungs; 'double bubble-sucking' is a novel, apparently derived form of bubble-sucking that adds a second suction event. Hyla versicolor tadpoles transition from single bubble-sucking to double bubble-sucking at approximately 5.7 mm snout-vent length (SVL), which corresponds to a period of rapid lung maturation when they transition from low to high vascularization (6.0 mm SVL). Functional, behavioral and morphological evidence suggests that double bubble-sucking increases the efficiency of pulmonary gas exchange by separating expired, deoxygenated air from freshly inspired air to prevent mixing. Hyla versicolor, and possibly other hylid tadpoles, may have specialized for bubble-sucking in order to take advantage of this increased efficiency. Single and double bubble-sucking represent two- and four-stroke ventilation systems, which we discuss in the context of other anamniote air-breathing mechanisms.
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- Jackson R Phillips
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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Seasonal variation of hypoxic and hypercarbic ventilatory responses in the lizard Tropidurus torquatus. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2019; 237:110534. [PMID: 31401309 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2019.110534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2019] [Revised: 07/27/2019] [Accepted: 08/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) and oxygen (O2) influence the breathing pattern of reptiles, especially when CO2 is in excess or O2 at low concentrations and the effects of these gases on the respiratory response varies according to the species. In addition to respiratory gases, seasonal changes can also modulate breathing pattern and ventilatory responses to hypoxia and hypercarbia. Therefore, the present study investigated the breathing pattern and ventilatory responses to hypercarbia (5% CO2) and hypoxia (5% O2) of the Neotropical lizard Tropidurus torquatus over a period of one year, covering all seasons (summer, autumn, winter and spring). Our data suggest that like other ectothermic sauropsids, Tropidurus torquatus possesses distinct ventilatory responses to hypoxia and hypercarbia, being more sensitive to changes in CO2 than in O2. Additionally, the ventilatory responses to hypoxia were more pronounced during summer and hypercanic and pos-hypercapnic ventilatory response was reduced during spring, suggesting that seasonality modulates the control of ventilation in this species.
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Aldosterone, corticosterone, and thyroid hormone and their influence on respiratory control development in Lithobates catesbeianus: An in vitro study. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2016; 224:104-13. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2014.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2014] [Revised: 11/13/2014] [Accepted: 11/20/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Contrary to previous studies, we found that Xenopus laevis tadpoles raised in normoxic water without access to air can routinely complete metamorphosis with lungs that are either severely stunted and uninflated or absent altogether. This is the first demonstration that lung development in a tetrapod can be inhibited by environmental factors and that a tetrapod that relies significantly on lung respiration under unstressed conditions can be raised to forego this function without adverse effects. This study compared lung development in untreated, air-deprived (AD) and air-restored (AR) tadpoles and frogs using whole mounts, histology, BrdU labeling of cell division and antibody staining of smooth muscle actin. We also examined the relationship of swimming and breathing behaviors to lung recovery in AR animals. Inhibition and recovery of lung development occurred at the stage of lung inflation. Lung recovery in AR tadpoles occurred at a predictable and rapid rate and correlated with changes in swimming and breathing behavior. It thus presents a new experimental model for investigating the role of mechanical forces in lung development. Lung recovery in AR frogs was unpredictable and did not correlate with behavioral changes. Its low frequency of occurrence could be attributed to developmental, physical and behavioral changes, the effects of which increase with size and age. Plasticity of lung inflation at tadpole stages and loss of plasticity at postmetamorphic stages offer new insights into the role of developmental plasticity in amphibian lung loss and life history evolution.
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- Christopher S Rose
- James Madison University, Department of Biology, Biosciences 2028, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA
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Tattersall GJ, Currie S, LeBlanc DM. Pulmonary and cutaneous O₂gas exchange: a student laboratory exercise in the frog. ADVANCES IN PHYSIOLOGY EDUCATION 2013; 37:97-105. [PMID: 23471257 DOI: 10.1152/advan.00087.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Gas exchange in animals is ultimately diffusion based, generally occurring across dedicated respiratory organs. In many aquatic amphibians, however, multiple modes of gas exchange exist, allowing for the partitioning of O2 uptake and CO2 excretion between respiratory organs with different efficiencies. For example, due to the physical properties of O2 being vastly different between air and water phases, the lung and skin play disproportionately important roles in O2 uptake. Many aquatic frogs are renowned for their cutaneous gas exchange capacity, where often the majority of CO2 is excreted across the skin. Furthermore, the roles of these gas exchange organs change with the animal's behavior. Under diving conditions, most of the frog's gas exchange needs must be met by the skin. In this article, we describe an interactive undergraduate laboratory that allows a class of students to share equipment while assessing pulmonary and cutaneous respiration in frogs provided with an air/water choice and under enforced dive conditions. Concepts explored in this laboratory exercise include animal energetics, diving reflex, pulmonary and cutaneous gas exchange processes, diffusion-based gas flux, and O2 debt.
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- Glenn J Tattersall
- Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
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Biology, behavior, and environmental enrichment for the captive African clawed frog (Xenopus spp). Appl Anim Behav Sci 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2012.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Fonseca EM, da Silva GS, Fernandes M, Giusti H, Noronha-de-Souza CR, Glass ML, Bícego KC, Gargaglioni LH. The breathing pattern and the ventilatory response to aquatic and aerial hypoxia and hypercarbia in the frog Pipa carvalhoi. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2012; 162:281-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.03.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2011] [Revised: 03/27/2012] [Accepted: 03/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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JØRGENSEN CBARKER. Amphibian respiration and olfaction and their relationships: from Robert Townson (1794) to the present. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185x.2000.tb00047.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Fernandes MS, Giusti H, Glass ML. An assessment of dead space in pulmonary ventilation of the toad Bufo schneideri. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2005; 142:446-50. [PMID: 16257551 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2005.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2005] [Revised: 09/24/2005] [Accepted: 09/25/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The respiratory cycles of Rana and Bufo has been disputed in relation to flow patterns and to the respiratory dead-space of the buccal volume. A small tidal volume combined with a much larger buccal space motivated the "jet steam" model that predicts a coherent expired flow within the dorsal part of the buccal space. Some other studies indicate an extensive mixing of lung gas within the buccal volume. In Bufo schneideri, we measured arterial, end-tidal and intrapulmonary PCO(2) to evaluate dead-space by the Bohr equation. Dead-space was also estimated as: V(D)=(total ventilation-effective ventilation)/f(R), where total ventilation and f(R) were measured by pneumotachography, while effective ventilation was derived from the alveolar ventilation equation. These approaches were consistent with a dead space of 30-40% of tidal volume, which indicates a specific pathway for the expired lung gas.
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- M S Fernandes
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Avenida Bandeirantes 3900, 14.049-900 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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Frische S, Fago A, Altimiras J. Respiratory responses to short term hypoxia in the snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2000; 126:223-31. [PMID: 10936762 DOI: 10.1016/s1095-6433(00)00201-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Among vertebrates, turtles are able to tolerate exceptionally low oxygen tensions. We have investigated the compensatory mechanisms that regulate respiration and blood oxygen transport in snapping turtles during short exposure to hypoxia. Snapping turtles started to hyperventilate when oxygen levels dropped below 10% O(2). Total ventilation increased 1.75-fold, essentially related to an increase in respiration frequency. During normoxia, respiration occurred in bouts of four to five breaths, whereas at 5% O(2), the ventilation pattern was more regular with breathing bouts consisting of a single breath. The increase in the heart rate between breaths during hypoxia suggests that a high pulmonary blood flow may be maintained during non-ventilatory periods to improve arterial blood oxygenation. After 4 days of hypoxia at 5% O(2), hematocrit, hemoglobin concentration and multiplicity and intraerythrocytic organic phosphate concentration remained unaltered. Accordingly, oxygen binding curves at constant P(CO(2)) showed no changes in oxygen affinity and cooperativity. However, blood pH increased significantly from 7.50+/-0.05 under normoxia to 7.72+/-0.03 under hypoxia. The respiratory alkalosis will produce a pronounced in vivo left-shift of the blood oxygen dissociation curve due to the large Bohr effect and this is shown to be critical for arterial oxygen saturation.
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- S Frische
- Department of Zoophysiology, Danish Center for Respiratory Adaptation, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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Gargaglioni LH, Branco LG. Participation of nitric oxide in the nucleus isthmi in CO2-drive to breathing in toads. Braz J Med Biol Res 1999; 32:1399-405. [PMID: 10559841 DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x1999001100010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The nucleus isthmi (NI) is a mesencephalic structure of the amphibian brain. It has been reported that NI plays an important role in integration of CO2 chemoreceptor information and glutamate is probably involved in this function. However, very little is known about the mechanisms involved. Recently, it has been shown that nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is expressed in the brain of the frog. Thus the gas nitric oxide (NO) may be involved in different functions in the brain of amphibians and may act as a neurotransmitter or neuromodulator. We tested the hypothesis that NO plays a role in CO2-drive to breathing, specifically in the NI comparing pulmonary ventilation, breathing frequency and tidal volume, after microinjecting 100 nmol/0.5 microl of L-NAME (a nonselective NO synthase inhibitor) into the NI of toads (Bufo paracnemis) exposed to normocapnia and hypercapnia. Control animals received microinjections of vehicle of the same volume. Under normocapnia no significant changes were observed between control and L-NAME-treated toads. Hypercapnia caused a significant (P<0.01) increase in ventilation only after intracerebral microinjection of L-NAME. Exposure to hypercapnia caused a significant increase in breathing frequency both in control and L-NAME-treated toads (P<0.01 for the control group and P<0.001 for the L-NAME group). The tidal volume of the L-NAME group tended to be higher than in the control group under hypercapnia, but the increase was not statistically significant. The data indicate that NO in the NI has an inhibitory effect only when the respiratory drive is high (hypercapnia), probably acting on tidal volume. The observations reported in the present investigation, together with other studies on the presence of NOS in amphibians, indicate a considerable degree of phylogenetic conservation of the NO pathway amongst vertebrates.
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- L H Gargaglioni
- Departamentos de Fisiologia, Faculdade de Odontologia de Ribeirão Preto and Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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Branco LG, Glass ML, Hoffmann A. Central chemoreceptor drive to breathing in unanesthetized toads, Bufo paracnemis. RESPIRATION PHYSIOLOGY 1992; 87:195-204. [PMID: 1565892 DOI: 10.1016/0034-5687(92)90059-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Central chemoreceptor drive to breathing was studied in unanesthetized toads, equipped with face masks to measure pulmonary ventilation and arterial catheters to analyze blood gases. Two series of experiments were performed. Expt. 1: The fourth cerebral ventricle was perfused with solutions of mock CSF, adjusted to stepwise decreasing pH values. Concomitant perfusion-induced increases of pulmonary ventilation, pHa and PaO2 were measured. Expt. 2: Inspiration of hypercapnic gas mixtures was applied to stimulate both central and peripheral chemoreceptors. Subsequently, only peripheral chemoreceptors were stimulated. This was accomplished by repeating the hypercapnic conditions while the fourth ventricle was perfused with mock CSF at pH 7.7. This procedure reduced the slope of the ventilatory response curve by about 80%. Taken together, the experiments suggest a highly dominant role of central chemoreceptors in the ventilatory acid-base regulation of the toad.
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- L G Branco
- Departamento de Fisiologia, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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Jones DR, Chu C. Effect of denervation of carotid labyrinths on breathing in unrestrained Xenopus laevis. RESPIRATION PHYSIOLOGY 1988; 73:243-55. [PMID: 3420325 DOI: 10.1016/0034-5687(88)90070-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The effect of denervation of the carotid labyrinths on breathing responses to simultaneously applied aerial and aquatic normoxia, hypoxia, or hypercapnia has been studied in unrestrained Xenopus laevis. Denervation significantly reduced VI of normoxic toads compared with VI in intact and sham-operated toads, due to a significant reduction in the volume of each buccal pumping movement (VB) in denervates. Breathing increased significantly in response to environmental hypoxia or hypercapnia in intact and sham-operated toads as well as in denervates. Breathing frequency (fRESP) was the major determinant of the increase in VI for VB was unchanged and even fell slightly in denervates in hypercapnia. Dive time (DT) was significantly reduced in both hypoxia and hypercapnia, from that in normoxia. DT fell significantly more in hypoxia than in hypercapnia in both denervates and intact and sham-operated toads. It is concluded that the carotid labyrinth does not play a major role in regulating breathing in hypoxia or hypercapnia in unrestrained Xenopus.
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- D R Jones
- Dept. of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Kruhøffer M, Glass ML, Abe AS, Johansen K. Control of breathing in an amphibian Bufo paracnemis: effects of temperature and hypoxia. RESPIRATION PHYSIOLOGY 1987; 69:267-75. [PMID: 3629013 DOI: 10.1016/0034-5687(87)90033-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Lung ventilation was measured in the toad, Bufo paracnemis, weight 500-800 g, at 15, 25 and 32 degree C during normoxia and hypoxia (5, 10, and 15% inspired O2). Arterial blood gases were measured during normoxic breathing. Typically breath-holds alternated with ventilatory periods, which were initiated by a stepwise pulmonary deflation. Then a series of breaths consisting of both expiratory and inspiratory volumes followed. At the end of the period the lungs were inflated in several steps. Increased temperature markedly augmented ventilation mostly through a five-fold increase in the number of ventilatory periods per unit time. Ventilation was also enhanced by hypoxia and this response was greatest at the highest temperature. Arterial PO2 rose from 35 to 96 Torr when temperature increased from 15 to 32 degrees C. Bufo resembles reptiles regarding these responses.
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