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1 Department of Physiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Respiratory responses to inhaled CO2 were measured in unanesthetized goats during repeated perfusions of the ventriculocisternal system through chronically implanted cannulas. [HCO3–] and pH were measured in carotid loop blood and cisternal outflow. Average steady-state alveolar ventilation increased fourfold when cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-[HCO3–] was reduced from 30 to 15 mm/liter at constant, normal CO2 pressure or threefold when CSF pH changed from 7.32 to 7.21 at constant, normal CSF-[HCO3–]. Sensitivity was two- to sevenfold greater than reported for anesthetized animals. At constant CSF pH the ventilatory response to inhaled CO2 was 60% of the isobicarbonate response. Pco2 in cisternal outflow was shown to approximate that in cerebral tissue. HCO3– flux was measured as a function of CSF-[HCO3–] and concentration profiles between CSF and capillary blood were considered. Alveolar ventilation is a single linear function of [H+] in tissue fluid located two-thirds to three-fourths of the distance along the functional concentration gradient of HCO3– between CSF and blood at all values of Pco2 and CSF-[HCO3–] which we investigated.
Key Words: cerebrospinal fluid • bicarbonate fluxes in cerebrospinal fluid • regulation of respiration • brain tissue fluid pH • acid-base regulation • Pco2 in cerebrospinal fluid • respiration in goat • ventriculocisternal perfusion
Submitted on August 14, 1964
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