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Cellular mechanisms involved in CO₂ and acid signaling in chemosensitive neurons

Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio 45435

An increase in CO₂/H⁺ is a major stimulus for increased ventilation and is sensed by specialized brain stem neurons called central chemosensitive neurons. These neurons appear to be spread among numerous brain stem regions, and neurons from different regions have different levels of chemosensitivity. Early studies implicated changes of pH as playing a role in chemosensitive signaling, most likely by inhibiting a K⁺ channel, depolarizing chemosensitive neurons, and thereby increasing their firing rate. Considerable progress has been made over the past decade in understanding the cellular mechanisms of chemosensitive signaling using reduced preparations. Recent evidence has pointed to an important role of changes of intracellular pH in the response of central chemosensitive neurons to increased CO₂/H⁺ levels. The signaling mechanisms for chemosensitivity may also involve changes of extracellular pH, intracellular Ca²⁺, gap junctions, oxidative stress, glial cells, bicarbonate, CO₂, and neurotransmitters. The normal target for these signals is generally believed to be a K⁺ channel, although it is likely that many K⁺ channels as well as Ca²⁺ channels are involved as targets of chemosensitive signals. The results of studies of cellular signaling in central chemosensitive neurons are compared with results in other CO₂- and/or H⁺-sensitive cells, including peripheral chemoreceptors (carotid body glomus cells), invertebrate central chemoreceptors, avian intrapulmonary chemoreceptors, acid-sensitive taste receptor cells on the tongue, and pain-sensitive nociceptors. A multiple factors model is proposed for central chemosensitive neurons in which multiple signals that affect multiple ion channel targets result in the final neuronal response to changes in CO₂/H⁺.

hypercapnia; brain stem; ventilation; peripheral chemoreceptor; glia; gap junction; glomus; channel; calcium; potassium; carbonic anhydrase; taste receptor; nociception

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