ArticlePloS one2016
Behavioral, Ventilatory and Thermoregulatory Responses to Hypercapnia and Hypoxia in the Wistar Audiogenic Rat (WAR) Strain.
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- Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Central Respiratory Chemoreception.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Temperature-induced Artifacts in Tau Phosphorylation: Implications for Reliable Alzheimer's Disease Research.Experimental neurobiology · 2023Article
- Neurokinin-1 receptor activation is sufficient to restore the hypercapnic ventilatory response in the Substance P-deficient naked mole-rat.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2020Article
- Behavioural responses to environmental hypercapnia in two eusocial species of African mole rats.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Article
- A Comprehensive Overview on Stress Neurobiology: Basic Concepts and Clinical Implications.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Review
- Impaired central respiratory chemoreflex in an experimental genetic model of epilepsy.The Journal of physiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
introductionWe investigated the behavioral, respiratory, and thermoregulatory responses elicited by acute exposure to both hypercapnic and hypoxic environments in Wistar audiogenic rats (WARs). The WAR strain represents a genetic animal model of epilepsy.
methodsBehavioral analyses were performed using neuroethological methods, and flowcharts were constructed to illustrate behavioral findings. The body plethysmography method was used to obtain pulmonary ventilation (VE) measurements, and body temperature (Tb) measurements were taken via temperature sensors implanted in the abdominal cavities of the animals.
resultsNo significant difference was observed between the WAR and Wistar control group with respect to the thermoregulatory response elicited by exposure to both acute hypercapnia and acute hypoxia (p>0.05). However, we found that the VE of WARs was attenuated relative to that of Wistar control animals during exposure to both hypercapnic (WAR: 133 ± 11% vs. Wistar: 243 ± 23%, p<0.01) and hypoxic conditions (WAR: 138 ± 8% vs. Wistar: 177 ± 8%; p<0.01). In addition, we noted that this ventilatory attenuation was followed by alterations in the behavioral responses of these animals.
conclusionsOur results indicate that WARs, a genetic model of epilepsy, have important alterations in their ability to compensate for changes in levels of various arterial blood gasses. WARs present an attenuated ventilatory response to an increased PaCO2 or decreased PaO2, coupled to behavioral changes, which make them a suitable model to further study respiratory risks associated to epilepsy.
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