Similarities and Differences in Mechanisms of Phrenic and Hypoglossal Motor Facilitation

Overview

Journal Respir Physiol Neurobiol

Specialty Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2011 Jul 13

PMID 21745601

Citations 31

Authors

Tracy L Baker-Herman

Kristi A Strey

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Abstract

Intermittent hypoxia-induced long-term facilitation (LTF) is variably expressed in the motor output of several inspiratory nerves, such as the phrenic and hypoglossal. Compared to phrenic LTF (pLTF), less is known about hypoglossal LTF (hLTF), although it is often assumed that cellular mechanisms are the same. While fundamental mechanisms appear to be similar, potentially important differences exist in the modulation of pLTF and hLTF. The primary objectives of this paper are to: (1) review similarities and differences in pLTF and hLTF, pointing out knowledge gaps and (2) present new data suggesting that reduced respiratory neural activity elicits differential plasticity in phrenic and hypoglossal output (inactivity-induced phrenic and hypoglossal motor facilitation, iPMF and iHMF), suggesting that these motor pool-specific differences are not unique to LTF. Differences in fundamental mechanisms or modulation of plasticity among motor pools may confer the capacity to mount a complex ventilatory response to specific challenges, particularly in motor pools with different "jobs" in the control of breathing.

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