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What is the FRC

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  • Functional residual capacity

The amount air left at the end of a normal breath

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What happens to nerve activity during the respiratory cycle?

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It increases during inspiration and reaches its peak just before inspiration shuts off, it then then remains at a low level during passive expiration. Activity of neurons increases steadily, aparently as a result of a positive feedback mechanism

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Where does the rhythmic pattern of breathing originate?

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The medulla (and the pons)

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Do the respiratory muscles have an intrinsic rhythmicity?

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No

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What part of the brain contains all the components to generate a rhythmic pattern of respiration?

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The brainstem

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What are respiratory centres?

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  • Diffuse networks which act together ro bring about the respiratory effect.
  • Collect sensory information about the levels of oxygen and CO2 in blood that determines the signal sent to respiratory muscles
  • Stimulation leads to respiratory movements which produce alveolar contraction
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Where are the respiratory centres located?

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The medulla oblongata and the pons

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What does the inspiratory centre control?

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Diaphragm and external intercostals

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What does the expiratory centre control?

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Internal intercostals but also partially expiratory neurons .
Inactive during quiet breathing

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Where is the inspiratory centre located?

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Upper part of medulla oblongata (dorsal part)

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Where is the expiratory centre located?

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Medulla oblongata, anterior and lateral to the inspiratory centre

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What can the inspiratory centre also be called?

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The dorsal Respiratory GroupGroup (DRG)

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What can the expiratory centre also be called?

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Ventral Respiratory Group (VRG)

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When is the expiratory centre active?

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During forced expiration or when inspiratory centre is inhibited

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Where is the pneumotaxic centre located?

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The upper pons

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What is the function of the pneumotaxic centre?

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Controls medullary respiratory centres, especially the inspiratory centre through the apneustic centre. It influences inspiratory centre so that duration of inspiration is under control

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Where is the apnuestic centre located?

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The Lower pons

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What is the function of the apneustic centre?

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Increases depth of inspiration by acting on inspiratory centre

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What are the afferent connections of the respiratory centre?

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  • Impulses according to movement of thoracic region and lungs
  • Also from chemoreceptors
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What are the efferent connections of the respiratory centre?

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  • Nerves from the respiratory centre leave in anterior part of the lateral column in spinal cord
  • Terminate in motor neurons in cervical and thoracic segments of spinal cord
  • Supply phrenic nerve that controls diaphragm
  • Supply fibres for intercostal muscles
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Where are the impulses coming from in the respiratory centres?

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  • Higher centres
  • Stretch receptors (Hering-Breur Reflex)
  • J receptors, or pulmonary C-fibres
  • Irritant receptors of lungs
  • Proprioceptors
  • Thermoreceptors
  • Pain receptors
  • Cough reflex
  • Sneezing reflex
  • Deglutition reflex
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What areas which are considered ‘higher centres’ contribute towards stimulating or inhibiting the respiratory centre directly?

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  • Cerebral cortex
  • Limbic system
  • Hypothalamus
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Describe the Hering-Breur Reflex?

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  • Smooth muscle receptors of the upper airways have slowly adapting stretch receptors.
  • When lung is inflated these neurons send impulses to the DRG via the vagus
  • This input is inhibitory limiting inspiration, prevents overinflation of lungs.
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When is the Hering-Breur reflex more active?

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  • In 1st year of life

- During strenous exercise when TV is > 1 L

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Where are J receptors (or pulmonary C-fibres) present?
- Juxtacapillary receptors present in wall of alveoli, in close contact with pulmonary capillaries
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What are J receptors (or pulmonary C-fibres) stimulated by?
- Stimulated during conditions like pulmonary oedema, congestion, pneumonia, alsos from endogenous chemicals such as histamine
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What do 'J' receptors induce when stimulated?
Apnea - temporary suspension of breathing - followed by rapid shallow breathing
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What are irritant receptors of the lungs stimulated by?
- Inhalation of irritants | - Harmful chemicals such as amonnia and cigarette smoke
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Where are irritant receptors of the lung situated?
On the walls of bronchi and bronchioles
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What do the irrritant receptors of the lung induce?
- Rapid shallow breathing, mainly from shortening of expiration - But also, long deep augmented breaths, which are taken by mammals every 5-20 mins on average to reverse slow collapse of lungs that occurs during quiet breathing
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What do proprioceptors do?
- Measure how fast you are breathing and the rate of expansion - Aim is for reflexes from muscles and joints to stabilise ventilation in the face of changing mechanical conditions
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Where are proprioceptors located?
- Receptors in chest wall - Situated in joints - measure velocity of rib movement - Also found in tendons and muscles
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What are thermoreceptors?
- Cutaneous - Supply signals to cerebral cortex - Stimulates respiratory centre - Hyperventilation
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What are pain receptors?
- Supply signals to cerebral cortex, - Stimulates respiratory centres - Induces hyperventilation
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What nerve does the cough reflex stimulate?
Vagus
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Describe the cough reflex
- Protective reflex caused by irritation of parts of respiratory tract beyond nose, eg larynx, trachea and bronchi - Deep inspiration followed by forceful expiration with closed glottis - Glottis opens and explosive outflow or air at high velocity
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Describe the sneezing reflex
- Irritation of nasal mucous membranes | - Deep inspiration followed by forceful expiration with opened glottis
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Describe the deglutition reflex?
- Respiration arrested during swallowing of food | - Swallowing apnea or deglutition apnea
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What can chemoreceptors change in response to?
- Hypoxia - Hypercapnea - elevated CO2 in blood - Increased H+ concentration (decreased pH)
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What are the two main groups of chemoreceptors?
- Central chemoreceptors | - Peripheral chemoreceptors
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What is a better buffer plasma or CSF?
Blood plasma
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How is an increase in H+ concentration detected by the medulla oblongata?
- H+ cannot cross the BBB or CSF barrier - CO2 can cross into CSF, and forms carbonic acid, which is unstable and rapidly dissociates to H+ and bicarbonate - H+ then stimulates central chemoreceptors
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Why a rise in PaCO2 cause a larger effect on pH in the CSF than the blood?
There is less protein in the CSF than the blood
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What are the central chemoreceptors sensitive to?
- Arterial PaCO2 | Not arterial H+ or PaO2
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Where are central chemoreceptors located?
Medulla oblongata close to DRG
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What type of cells are peripheral chemoreceptors?
- Specialised receptor cells (glomus type 1) that are stimulated primarily by a decrease in PO2 and an increase in H+ (the latter occuring as a result of increased CO2)
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What nerve do the sensory fibres of the aortic bodies follow?
CN X - Vagus
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What nerve do the sensory fibres of the carotid bodies follow?
CN IX - glossopharyngeal
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What are the peripheral chemoreceptors stimulated by?
A decrease in PO2
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Where are the peripheral chemoreceptors situated?
Around carotid sinus and aortic arch
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What peripheral chemoreceptors have the greatest effect on respiration?
Carotid bodies
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What are the peripheral chemoreceptors sensitive to?
- PaO2 - PaCO2 - pH - Blood flow - Temperature
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How much more sensitive are central chemoreceptors to PaCO2 compared with peripheral chemoreceptors ?
10 times
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How do Oxygen levels relate to chemical changes within glomus cells in chemoreceptors?
- When PO2 is high, the K+ channel is open, and the glomus cell is quiescent - When PO2 falls, and the K+ channel closes. Vm depolarises - Ca2+ channels open - Ca2+ influx triggers NT release - Sensory afferents signal to the CNS
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What is normal PCO2?
40 mmHg or 5.3 kPa
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How is ventilation depressed when CO2 is decreased?
- If PCO2 falls the firing rate also falls so there is a corresponding decrease in excitatory input to DRG, with the result of respiration being inhibited
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What must PO2 drop below before PO2 becomes a major stimulus for ventilation?
Must drop below 60 mmHg or 8 kPa from around 100 mmHg (13.3kPa)
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Why is not recommended to put a patient with COPD on 100% oxygen?
- Patient's chemoreceptors become insensitive to PCO2 or have become adjusted to lower than normal O2 and higher CO2 - Patient relies on deline in PO2 to stimulate breathing - HYPOXIC DRIVE - Risk is that on 100% oxygen patient will cease breathing, because firing rate of peripheral chemoreceptors will fall and depress ventilatory drive
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What neuromuscular disorders affect the respiratory system?
- CNS - Hemispheric strokes - Poliomyelits - Diptheria - Botulism - DMD

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