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Impaired transplacental supply of oxygen leads to intrauterine growth restriction, one of the most important causes of perinatal mortality and respiratory morbidity. Breathing rhythm depends on the central respiratory network modulated by catecholamines. We investigated the impact of growth restriction, using prenatal hypoxia, on respiratory frequency, on central respiratory-like rhythm, and on its catecholaminergic modulation after birth. At birth, respiratory frequency was increased and confirmed in en bloc medullary preparations, where the frequency of the fourth cervical (C4) ventral root discharge was increased, and in slice preparations containing the pre-Bötzinger complex with an increased inspiratory rhythm. The inhibition of C4 burst discharge observed in pontomedullary preparations was stronger in the growth-restricted group. These results cannot be directly linked by the tyrosine hydroxylase activity increase of A 1 /C 1 and A 2 /C 2 cell groups in the medulla since blockade of α 1 - and α 2 -adrenergic receptors did not abolish the difference between both groups. However, in pontomedullary preparations, the stronger inhibition of C4 burst discharge is probably supported by an increased inhibition of A 5 , a respiratory rhythm inhibitor pontine group of neurons displaying increased tyrosine hydroxylase activity, because blockade of α 2 -adrenergic receptors abolished the difference between the two groups. Taken together, these results indicate that growth restriction leads to a perturbation of the breathing frequency, which finds, at least in part, its origin in the modification of catecholaminergic modulation of the central breathing network.

Growth restriction induced by chronic prenatal hypoxia affects breathing rhythm and its pontine catecholaminergic modulation