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Does surreptitious oxygen breathing affect ventilation at rest and during exercise below the respiratory compensation point?
Does surreptitious oxygen breathing affect ventilation at rest and during exercise below the respiratory compensation point?
Peripheral chemoreflex drive increases progressively with exercise intensity below the respiratory compensation point, potentially driven by rising proton concentration.
Suggests rising peripheral chemoreflex contribution to ventilation during exercise; hypothesis-generating and should not change clinical oxygen use yet.
We assessed peripheral chemoreflex (PChR) contributions to steady-state breathing at rest and at four exercise intensities below the respiratory compensation point by quantifying the fall in ventilation in response to surreptitious oxygen breathing. The magnitude by which ventilation fell increased progressively from rest to the highest intensity, indicating a rising PChR drive. Proton concentration from arterialized-venous blood also increased with intensity. Intensity-dependent increases in PChR drive may reflect a reflexive response to rising proton concentration.
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