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Topic: Hypocapnia



  
 Journal of Trauma Lead Abstract
Logistic regression was used to explore the impact of oxygen desaturation during laryngoscopy and postintubation hypocapnia and hypoxia on outcome.
The relationship between hypocapnia and ventilatory rate was explored using linear regression and univariate analysis.
In addition, trial patients and controls were compared with regard to mortality and the incidence of "good outcomes" using an odds ratio analysis.
http://www.aast.org/JTrauma_July04.html

  
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Hence, hypocapnia caused a prompt and marked constrictor response in the peripheral lung not associated with cholinergic mechanisms or those involving histamine H1-receptors or prostaglandins.
We studied the response of the peripheral lung to hypocapnia in anesthetized, paralyzed, mechanically ventilated dogs using the wedged bronchoscope technique to measure resistance of the collateral system (Rcs).
Hypocapnia-induced constriction of peripheral airways may be important in regulating the distribution of ventilation in pathological conditions.
http://www.pharmacy-online-usa.com/ref-propranolol/propranolol-research-abs3.1489.html

  
 Effect of acute hypocapnia on some aspects of renal function in anaesthetized dogs -- Hunter et al. 51 (8): 725 -- ...
Effect of acute hypocapnia on some aspects of renal function in anaesthetized dogs
Effect of acute hypocapnia on some aspects of renal function in anaesthetized dogs -- Hunter et al.
During the (short) duration of the experiments hypocapnia was found to be
http://bja.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/51/8/725

  
 Ventilatory responses to hypercapnia and hypoxia after 6 h passive hyperventilation in humans -- Ren and Robbins 514 ...
The object of this study was to investigate the degree to which the hyperventilation and hypocapnia can induce the changes known as ventilatory acclimatization to hypoxia, in the absence of the primary hypoxic stimulus itself.
ET,CO response arises from the associated hypocapnia and not from the hyperventilation itself.
However, it should be appreciated that the degree of hypocapnia in the present study was substantially greater than would normally arise through acute exposure to hypoxia.
http://jp.physoc.org/cgi/content/full/514/3/885

  
 Buteyko Asthma Management: Printer Friendly: Self-Management of asthma through Normalisation of Breathing
The clinical trial compared the efficacy of the Buteyko Breathing Method with conventional treatment of asthma.  The control group, was on a regime of medical management, physiotherapy exercises, and asthma education, recorded no improvement.  The Buteyko Method group significantly reduced bronchodilators (90%), asthma symptoms, and steroid medication, with significant improvements in their quality of life.
Buteyko's theory of the link between asthma and hyperventilation was supported by the finding of hyperventilation and hypocapnia in all participants in the study.
This paper outlines that study, highlights interesting findings from the research, and discusses the Buteyko Breathing Method as a self-management therapy for asthma sufferers and is not intended as a complete record of all clinical results.
http://www.buteyko.co.nz/buteyko/trials/print/tess.htm

  
 Lancet:
For example, prophylactic hyperventilation to produce hypocapnia in acute head injury (a traditional therapy) is associated with a worsened neurological outcome.(13) In addition, hypocapnia before neonatal-extracorporeal-membrane oxygenation increases sensorineural hearing loss in children.(14) Hypocapnia is also a pathogenetic factor in pontosubicular necrosis,(15) a pattern of acute brain injury seen in infants with perinatal anoxia.
Re-evaluation of our traditional concepts of hypercapnia and hypocapnia may be valuable.
Most laboratory experimental work to date has focused on acute processes, but this does not preclude a role for therapeutic hypercapnia in chronic disease states in human beings.
http://wij.free.fr/lancet2.htm

  
 eMJA: Hensley & Gibson, Promoting evidence-based alternative medicine
Consequently, it remains unclear whether hypocapnia and hyperventilation are important contributors to the pathophysiology of asthma, or merely a consequence of asthma itself.
Buteyko breathing techniques are based on the premise that the pathophysiology in asthma is due to hypocapnia as a result of hyperventilation.
The evaluation of BBT by Bowler et al was designed to overcome many of the limitations in clinical methodology that occurred in the trials of Chinese herbal medicines.
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/xmas98/hensley/hensley.html

  
 Permissive hypercapnia for the prevention of morbidity and mortality in mechanically ventilated newborn infants
Experimental animal data and uncontrolled, observational studies in human infants have suggested that hyperventilation and hypocapnia may be associated with increased pulmonary and neurodevelopmental morbidity.
The association of early hypocapnia and BPD was also present in those infants believed to have less severe lung disease.
Further analysis comparing the infants with and without severe hypocapnia did not reveal any clinical factors related to the mechanical ventilation or severity of the respiratory distress that could further define the relationship between lowest PaCO2 and outcome.
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cochraneneonatal/Woodgate/Woodgate.htm

  
 acclimatization to altitude - General Practice Notebook
Various adaptive processes occur if there is chronic exposure to oxygen levels at high altitude.
hypocapnia } chemoreceptors which are sensitive to oxygen
http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/cache/-677773272.htm

  
 Carbon Dioxide
Cognitive and perceptual deficits are perhaps most clearly understood by newcomers to this physiology by examining the effects of hypoxia on the behavior of pilots.
Good breathing "mechanics" rather than good respiratory physiology, has unfortunately become almost the exclusive focus of breathing training and learning, often along with insistence on tying it to "relaxation" training regimens in the context of specific philosophical and/or professional agenda.
*Note: "Overbreathing" is a behavior leading to the physiological condition known as hypocapnia, i.e., carbon dioxide deficit.
http://www.aboutbreathing.com/articles/carbon-dioxide.htm

  
 Perioperative control of CO2 -- Kavanagh and Laffey 50 (Supplement 1): 9 -- Canadian Journal of Anesthesia
The effect of hypocapnia on coronary blood flow and myocardial function in the dog.
Hypocapnia may contribute to the development of clinical relevant
Hypocapnia may adversely affect global organ oxygen supply/demand
http://www.cja-jca.org/cgi/content/full/50/suppl_1/R9

  
 Injurious Effects of Hypocapnic Alkalosis in the Isolated Lung -- LAFFEY et al. 162 (2): 399 -- American Journal of ...
Hypocapnia has been a standard therapeutic goal in critically ill patients, especially in situations in which pulmonary vascular
Carbon dioxide protects the perinatal brain from hypoxic-ischemic damage: an experimental study in the immature rat.
American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Conference definitions of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome and allied disorders in relation to critically injured patients.
http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/content/full/162/2/399

  
 INDUCED APNEA definition
Intentional respiratory arrest during general anaesthesia produced by hypocapnia, a muscle relaxant drug, respiratory centre depression, or sudden cessation of controlled respiration.
http://www.books.md/I/dic/inducedapnea.php

  
 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine: Hypoxic respiratory response during acute stable hypocapnia
During acute hypocapnia, the respiratory drive is influenced minimally (1) or not at all (2-5) by changes in Pa^sub CO2^.
In previous human studies, the extent of central hypocapnia, at the time of the hypocapnic hypoxic challenge, was uncertain and likely varied considerably depending on the experimental approach used, thereby possibly explaining the divergent results (see DISCUSSION).
The hypoxic ventilatory response during hypocapnia has been studied with divergent results.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4085/is_200305/ai_n9277174

  
 Caudoputamen Is Damaged by Hypocapnia During Mechanical Ventilation in a Rat Model of Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion -- ...
Caudoputamen Is Damaged by Hypocapnia During Mechanical Ventilation in a Rat Model of Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion -- Miyamoto et al.
in sham-operated rats with either hypocapnia or normocapnia.
those given sham operation with either hypocapnia or normocapnia.
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/32/12/2920

  
 Carotid body denervation eliminates apnea in response to transient hypocapnia -- Nakayama et al. 94 (1): 155 -- Journal ...
Ventilatory effects of specific carotid body hypocapnia in dogs during wakefulness and sleep.
Carotid body denervation eliminates apnea in response to transient hypocapnia -- Nakayama et al.
Carotid body denervation eliminates apnea in response to transient hypocapnia
http://jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/94/1/155

  
 Effect of Intravenous Dipyridamole on Cerebral Blood Flow in Humans : A PET Study -- Ito et al. 30 (8): 1616 -- Stroke
Percent change in CBF for hypercapnia, hypocapnia, and dipyridamole stress relative to the rest condition are plotted versus the absolute change in Pa for all subjects.
in response to hypercapnia, hypocapnia, and dipyridamole, as
The percent CBF change in response to hypercapnia, hypocapnia,
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/30/8/1616

  
 Cheyne-Stokes Respiration in Stroke: Relationship to Hypocapnia and Occult Cardiac Dysfunction -- Nopmaneejumruslers et ...
Cheyne-Stokes Respiration in Stroke: Relationship to Hypocapnia and Occult Cardiac Dysfunction
is associated with nocturnal hypocapnia, and 2) in those stroke
Cheyne-Stokes Respiration in Stroke: Relationship to Hypocapnia and Occult Cardiac Dysfunction -- Nopmaneejumruslers et al., 10.1164/rccm.200411-1591OC -- American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/200411-1591OCv1

  
 Ophthalmic artery blood flow velocity increases during hypocapnia: [La vitesse circulatoire de l'artere ophtalmique ...
also supply the optic nerve, is affected by hypocapnia.
Linear regression analysis was used to determine the relationship
Their study was confirmed in humans by Harris et al.
http://www.cja-jca.org/cgi/content/full/51/4/388

  
 DeeperBlue.net - Take a Deep Breath by Erik Seedhouse
In more severe hypocapnia, the whole body becomes stiff (a condition referred to as tetany) due to contraction of skeletal muscle.
The objective signs of hypocapnia most often observed in a freediver are:
The combined effect of restricted blood flow and increased oxygen-binding results in stagnant hypoxia at the brain, which ultimately leads to unconsciousness (usually just below the surface).
http://www.deeperblue.net/article.php/132

  
 6.4 Respiratory Alkalosis - Metabolic Effects
The main role of acute therapeutic hypocapnia is to provide acute reduction in ICP so that surgical treatment of intracerebral mass lesions can be facilitated.
There are some situations where intraoperative hyperventilation and hypocapnia is specifically useful eg to acutely reduce increased intracranial pressure (ICP) in neuroanaesthesia.
A chronic hypocapnia is associated with few symptoms because of the compensation that occurs.
http://www.anaesthesiamcq.com/AcidBaseBook/ab6_4.php

  
 Allergy & Asthma Disease Management Center: Ask the Expert: Asthma
The therapeutic approach to hyperventilation syndrome has several stages and/or degrees of intervention: psychological counselling, physiotherapy and relaxation, and finally drug therapy.
These authors state that hyperventilation in such asthmatics and hyperventilation on a psychogenic basis are both characterized by hypocapnia.
Recent studies have questioned the tight relationship between hypocapnia and complaints.
http://www.aaaai.org/aadmc/ate/asthma.html

  
 Relationship of carbon dioxide tension in arterial blood to pulmonary wedge pressure in heart failure -- Lorenzi-Filho ...
The present study was supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP-11607) and from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.
Another possible explanation for hypocapnia in CHF is stimulation
Cheyne-Stokes Respiration in Stroke: Relationship to Hypocapnia and Occult Cardiac Dysfunction
http://erj.ersjournals.com/cgi/content/full/19/1/37

  
 Contribution of the respiratory rhythm to sinus arrhythmia in normal unanesthetized subjects during positive-pressure ...
Datta AK, Shea SA, Horner RL, and Guz A. The influence of induced hypocapnia and sleep on the endogenous respiratory rhythm in humans.
subjects in normocapnia and hypocapnia during mechanical hyperventilation
pattern but in hypocapnia (24 ± 1 mmHg), the respiratory
http://ajpheart.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/286/1/H402

  
 PETCO2 inversely affects MSNA response to orthostatic stress -- Shoemaker et al. 281 (3): 1040 -- AJP - Heart and ...
demonstrate that in contrast to hypocapnia, blood pressure was
These levels were maintained during each condition while
Original blood pressure, heart rate, and MSNA responses from a representative subject obtained while supine and in HUT during
http://ajpheart.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/281/3/H1040

  
 THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 16, Ch. 200, Orthostatic Hypotension And Syncope
Syncope of gradual onset (with warning symptoms) and slow clearing suggests metabolic changes, eg, hypoglycemia or hypocapnia of hyperventilation; the latter is often preceded by paresthesias and chest discomfort.
Syncope due to pulmonary embolism usually indicates massive pulmonary vascular obstruction and is often associated with dyspnea, tachypnea, chest discomfort, cyanosis, and hypotension.
Presyncopal anxiety may be accompanied by hyperventilation; resultant hypocapnia causes cerebral vasoconstriction, further lowering brain perfusion (see hyperventilation syncope, below, and also Dyspnea in Ch.
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section16/chapter200/200b.htm

  
 Hypocapnia and Other Ventilation-Related Risk Factors for Cerebral Palsy in Low Birth Weight Infants -- COLLINS et al. ...
We therefore explored the association between hypocapnia and
a concern with moderate hypocapnia, studies on newborns to date
babies, hypocapnia would add little or no additional risk of
http://www.pedresearch.org/cgi/content/full/50/6/712

  
 6.1 Respiratory Alkalosis
Secondly, hypocapnia does not necessarily mean a respiratory alkalosis.
This may sound a bit of a technical quibble but there are adverse effects of the alternative practice.
hypocapnia occurring as a compensatory response to a metabolic acidosis -this compensatory response is secondary so is not a respiratory alkalosis.
http://www.anaesthesiamcq.com/AcidBaseBook/ab6_1.php

  
 APStracts 3:0507A, 1996.
The primary aim of this study was to assess the ventilatory effect of CB hypocapnia on the ventilatory response to concomitant CB hypoxia.
Ventilatory effects of specific carotid body hypocapnia and hypoxia in the awake dog.
The secondary aim was to assess the relative gains of the CB and central chemoreceptors to hypocapnia.
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/apstracts/1996/jap/November/507a.html

  
 Ilse Van Diest, Ph D
A second part (studies 7-9) focused on psychological consequences of hyperventilation.
I will defend my Ph.D. thesis entitled ‘Hyperventilation induced Hypocapnia: Psychological Causes and Consequences’ in May, 2003.
The first factor grouped hyperarousal symptoms typically associated with fight/flight tendencies; the second factor clustered systemic and sickness symptoms possibly stemming from a functional system promoting recuperative behavior in response to stress.
http://ppw.kuleuven.be/rshw/ilse.htm

  
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These authors raised the issue of whether hypocapnia and hyperventilation are important contributors to the disease mechanism of asthma or whether they are merely a consequence of asthma.
An Asthma Australia fact sheet on Buteyko, which recognises the Bowler study, states that ‘there is no evidence that the Buteyko Breathing Technique improves control of asthma.
So, the lungs of those using the Buteyko method did not function any better than those of the people in the control group by conventional lung function measures.
http://www.mydr.com.au/printerfriendly.asp?article=2711

  
 eMedicine - Respiratory Alkalosis : Article by Jackie A Hayes, MD, FCCP
Perform a chest radiograph (CXR) to help rule out pulmonary disease as a cause of hypocapnia and respiratory alkalosis.
Symptoms may include paresthesias, circumoral numbness, chest pain or tightness, dyspnea, and tetany.
Fall PJ: A stepwise approach to acid-base disorders.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2009.htm

  
 Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism - Abstract of article: Changes in Human Cerebral Blood Flow and ...
The relation between changes in CBF and cerebral blood volume (CBV) during hypercapnia and hypocapnia in humans, however, is not clear.
Both CBF and CBV were measured at rest and during hypercapnia and hypocapnia in nine healthy subjects by positron emission tomography.
Hypercapnia induces cerebral vasodilation and increases cerebral blood flow (CBF), and hypocapnia induces cerebral vasoconstriction and decreases CBF.
http://www.nature.com/jcbfm/journal/v23/n6/abs/9591415a.html

  
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Critical factors of intracerebral microdialysis as a technique to determine the pharmacokinetics of drugs in rat brain.
These results indicate that the biphasic changes in [Ca2+]i, coupled with an out-of-phase change in pHi, underlie the biphasic response of myocardial contractility to hypocapnia.
To elucidate the mechanism of this response, two parallel strategies were adopted: isovolumic left ventricular developed pressure (DP) and intracellular pH (pHi) were measured in isolated ferret hearts using 31P-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and isometric developed tension (DT) and intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) were measured in ferret papillary muscles using microinjected fura 2 salt.
http://www.darwinpharmacy.com/ref-atenolol/atenolol-research-abs3.213.html

  
 Arch Neurol -- Abstract: Hypocapnia and intracranial volume-pressure relationship. A clinical and experimental study, ...
The VPR is the acute increase in mean ICP that occurs in response to a
A clinical and experimental study, June 1975, Rowed et al.
Arch Neurol -- Abstract: Hypocapnia and intracranial volume-pressure relationship.
http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/32/6/369

  
 APStracts 2:0181A, 1995.
Ventilatory effects of specific carotid body hypocapnia in the dog during wakefulness and sleep.
Carotid body perfusions lasted from 1 to 2 minutes and each trial was preceded by a 1 minute control period.
5) Moderate carotid body hypocapnia was as effective as carotid body hyperoxia in reducing VT and I. We conclude that carotid body hypocapnia/alkalosis can significantly inhibit eupneic VT and ventilation during wakefulness and Non-REM sleep and, if the hypocapnia is severe enough, during REM sleep.
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/apstracts/1995/jap/May/181a.html

  
 UpToDate Pathogenesis of central sleep apnea
Sleep state, hypocapnia, upper airway reflexes, and breathing instability may all have a contributing role in the absence of ventilatory motor output and the development of central apnea.
Hypocapnia during NREM sleep is a major cause of reduced ventilatory motor output in most patients with non-hypercapnic central apnea.
Short-term potentiation has been demonstrated in humans as well as in animals and is unaffected by the state of consciousness [ 3 ].
http://patients.uptodate.com/topic.asp?file=sleepdis/5428&title=GH+producing+%28Acromegaly%29+Pituitary+adenoma

  
 Hypocapnia attenuates mesenteric ischemia-reperfusion injury in a rat model: [L'hypocapnie attenue la lesion ...
or sham surgery, and to either hypocapnia or normocapnia.
Hypocapnia attenuates mesenteric ischemia-reperfusion injury in a rat model
Hypocapnia attenuates mesenteric ischemia-reperfusion injury in a rat model: [L'hypocapnie attenue la lesion mesenterique d'ischemie-reperfusion chez un modele rat] -- Duggan et al.
http://www.cja-jca.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/3/262

  
 The Effects of Propofol or Sevoflurane on the Estimated Cerebral Perfusion Pressure and Zero Flow Pressure -- Marval et ...
Hypocapnia did not change eCPP or ZFP in the propofol
end-tidal carbon dioxide partial pressure) and hypocapnia (1
http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/cgi/content/abstract/100/3/835

  
 Hypocapnia is not a Predictor of Central Sleep Apnea in Patients with Cirrhosis -- Javaheri et al., ...
Hypocapnia is not a Predictor of Central Sleep Apnea in Patients with Cirrhosis -- Javaheri et al., 10.1164/rccm.200407-910OC -- American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Hypocapnia is not a Predictor of Central Sleep Apnea in Patients with Cirrhosis
conclude that in contrast to SHF, presence of hypocapnia does
http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/200407-910OCv1

  
 AS002 HYPOCARBIA: PHYSIOLOGIC EFFECTS
The choroidal arterioles vasodilate in response to hypercapnia and constrict during hypocapnia, thereby changing intraocular volume and pressure.
The cardiovascular effects of acute hypocapnia in the awake human are generally minimal, but in the anesthetized or mechanically ventilated patient, cardiac output and blood pressure may fall because of the depressant effects of anesthesia and positive-pressure ventilation on heart rate, systemic resistance, and venous return.
Cardiac rhythm disturbances may occur in patients with coronary artery disease as a result of changes in oxygen unloading by blood from a left shift in the hemoglobin-oxygen dissociation curve (Bohr effect).
http://www.rashaduniversity.com/ashypphysef.html

  
 Dysfunctional breathing and asthma -- Keeley and Osman 322 (7294): 1075 -- BMJ
The guidance should be: if in doubt, treat for asthma but try
Thirdly, for some patients, hyperventilation with symptoms of hypocapnia is part of their experience of asthma.
Thomas et al suggest that breathing therapy is appropriate for some patients.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7294/1075

  
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Conditions 3 and 4 were the same as condition 2 with the addition of furosemide, dexamethasone, mannitol, or fentanyl in groups 2 and 3.
The present study was designed to determine whether treatments routinely used in patients during anesthesia for neurological surgery would decrease Vf during desflurane anesthesia in rabbits.
The action of the isoflavone genistein on the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) has been studied in many cell systems but not in intact murine tissues.
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 Research Activities, May 2002: Outcomes/Effectiveness Research: Mechanical ventilation of low birthweight newborns ...
The researchers examined a population-based cohort of 1,105 infants with birthweights of 500-2000 grams (roughly 1-4 pounds), substantially the largest such cohort study examining ventilatory practices as risks for cerebral palsy.
Although duration of mechanical ventilation in LBW newborns probably reflects severity of illness, both hypocapnia and hyperoxia can be largely controlled by ventilatory practice.
However, they have not substantially reduced the risk of cerebral palsy and other neurodevelopmental disorders among low birthweight (LBW) infants.
http://www.ahrq.gov/research/may02/0502RA9.htm

  
 Poster 13
Also, more errors were made and slower reaction times were observed during hypocapnia, that did not correlate with the level of complaints.
Hyperventilation, producing hypocapnia (a reduced carbon-dioxide pressure in the blood), is associated with physiological changes in the brain and with subjective complaints of mental functioning (dizziness, concentration problems, derealization and feeling confused).
However, little research documents whether mental performance deficits are associated with these subjective complaints.
http://www.ohiou.edu/isarp/summary/post_13.htm

  
 eMedicine - Alkalosis, Respiratory : Article Excerpt by: Girish G Deshpande, MD, FAAP
This is quantitatively less profound than renal compensation and is not related to change in bicarbonate excretion.
In chronic respiratory alkalosis, increased urinary bicarbonate excretion resists the pH change caused by hypocapnia.
Synonyms, Key Words, and Related Terms: alveolar hyperventilation, hyperventilation, acid-base disorders, increased blood pH, alkalemia, hypocapnia, urinary bicarbonate, plasma bicarbonate, acute alkalosis, chronic alkalosis, tetany, symptomatic hypocalcemia, dizziness, mental confusion, seizures, hypocarbia, excessive elimination of carbon dioxide, respiratory abnormality
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/byname/alkalosis-respiratory.htm

  
 Asthma Care Ireland - Information for Doctors and asthma nurses
The following is a quotation from a paper entitled Demonstration and treatment of hyperventilation causing asthma: “Hyperventilation, leading to airways cooling, will cause bronchoconstriction in vulnerable individuals” but, “because attacks of asthma are accompanied by hyperventilation of physiological origin, the role of hyperventilation in causing asthma attacks may be overlooked”.
The conclusion drawn was that “hypocapnia may contribute to airway obstruction in asthmatic patients, even when water and heat loss is prevented.”2 So while a loss of carbon dioxide has no affect on individuals without asthma, it does cause airway obstruction leading to asthma symptoms among those with asthma.
Effects of hypercapnia and hypocapnia on respiratory resistance in normal and asthmatic subjects.
http://www.asthmacare.ie/profession.shtml

  
 Enhanced Temporal Stability of Cholinergic Hippocampal Gamma Oscillations Following Respiratory Alkalosis In Vitro -- ...
Hypocapnia enhances inhibitory postsynaptic current (IPSC) amplitude but does not affect the decay time constant.
Comparison of the effects of hypocapnia and up-modulators of GABA
therefore did not counteract the effects of hypocapnia on oscillation
http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/85/5/2063

  
 Poster 9
The association between symptomatic hyperventilation and asthma has been emphasized by others.
This is of relevance in the study of patients with hyperventilation related disorders.
The subjects with the more extreme reductions of PETCO2 may well be more vulnerable to developing clinically significant hyperventilation, but this requires further study.
http://www.ohiou.edu/isarp/conf_00/post_9.htm

  
 Effect of testosterone on the apneic threshold in women during NREM sleep -- Zhou et al. 94 (1): 101 -- Journal of ...
The change in the AT and the ventilatory response to hypocapnia indicate that testosterone increased CO chemoresponsiveness.
Decreased ventilatory motor output after hyperventilation could also be due to hypocapnia at the peripheral chemoreceptors,
A representative polygraph record of one hypopneic trial from the baseline study is shown in Fig.
http://jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/94/1/101?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=millar&searchid=1076011447021_5325&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&volume=94&issue=1

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