Respiratory Function in Exercising Fowl Following Occlusion of the Thoracic Am Sacs

Author:

BRACKENBURY JOHN H.1,DARBY CARL1,EL-SAYED MAHMOUD S.1

Affiliation:

1. Sub-Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QS

Abstract

Oxygen consumption, respiratory evaporative water loss, respiratory rate and gas tensions in the clavicular and abdominal air sacs and in arterial blood were monitored after occluding either the cranial thoracic air sac only (CRT group) or the cranial and caudal thoracic air sacs together (CRT-CT group). Respiratory water loss was used to estimate minute ventilation. Both experimental groups were able to maintain control levels of ventilation at rest and during treadmill exercise at approximately three times the resting metabolic rate. The CRT group regulated blood and intrapulmonary PCOCO2 and POO2 normally, but there was a slight hypoxaemia/hypercapnaemia in the CRT-CT group, apparently as a result of parabronchial hypoventilation. The differential distribution of gas tensions between the cranial and caudal groups of air sacs was the same in control and experimental birds, suggesting that a normal intrapulmonary airflow pattern was preserved in the absence of the thoracic air sacs. The findings are discussed in the light of current models of the control of intrapulmonary airflow in birds.

Publisher

The Company of Biologists

Subject

Insect Science,Molecular Biology,Animal Science and Zoology,Aquatic Science,Physiology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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