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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 80 No. 4 October 1998,
pp. 2015-2022
Copyright ©1998 The American Physiological Society
1 Respiratory Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada; and 2 Division of Life Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249
Torgerson, C. S., M. J. Gdovin, and J. E. Remmers. Fictive gill and lung ventilation in the pre- and postmetamorphic tadpole brain stem. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 2015-2022, 1998. The pattern of efferent neural activity recorded from the isolated brain stem preparation of the tadpole Rana catesbeiana was examined to characterize fictive gill and lung ventilations during ontogeny. In vitro recordings from cranial nerve (CN) roots V, VII, and X and spinal nerve (SN) root II of premetamorphic tadpoles showed a coordinated sequence of rhythmic bursts occurring in one of two patterns, pattern1, high-frequency, low-amplitude bursts lacking corresponding activity in SN II and pattern 2, low-frequency, high-amplitude bursts with coincident bursts in SN II. These two patterns corresponded to gill and lung ventilatory burst patterns, respectively, recorded from nerve roots of decerebrate, spontaneously breathing tadpoles. Similar patterns were observed in brain stem preparations from postmetamorphic tadpoles except that they showed a greater frequency of lung bursts and they expressed fictive gill ventilation in SN II. The laryngeal branch of the vagus (Xl) displayed efferent bursts in phase with gill and lung activity, suggesting fictive glottal constriction during gill ventilation and glottal dilation during lung ventilation. The fictive gill ventilatory cycle of pre- and postmetamorphic tadpoles was characterized by a rostral to caudal sequence of CN bursts. The fictive lung ventilatory pattern in the premetamorphic animal was initiated by augmenting CN VII discharge followed by synchronous bursts in CN V, X, SN II, and Xl. By contrast, postmetamorphic patterns of fictive lung ventilation were characterized by lung burst activity in SN II that preceded burst onset in CN V and followed the lead burst in CN VII. We conclude that recruitment and timing of pattern 1 and pattern 2 rhythmic bursts recorded in vitro closely resemble that recorded during spontaneous respiratory behavior, indicating that the two patterns are the neural equivalent of gill and lung ventilation, respectively. Further, fictive gill and lung ventilatory patterns in postmetamorphic tadpoles differ in burst onset latency from premetamorphic tadpole patterns and resemble fictive oropharyngeal and pulmonary burst cycles in adult frogs.
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