A Key Role for the Retrotrapezoid Nucleus Revealed by Conditional Phox2b Mutant Mice

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Bourgeois, Thomas | Ringot, Maud | Ramanantsoa, Nélina | Matrot, Boris | Dauger, Stephane | Delclaux, Christophe | Gallego, Jorge

Edité par CCSD ; Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins -

International audience. Background: Optimal management of anesthesia-induced respiratory depression requires identification of the neural pathways that are most effective in maintaining breathing during anesthesia. Lesion studies point to the brainstem retrotrapezoid nucleus. We therefore examined the respiratory effects of common anesthetic/analgesic agents in mice with selective genetic loss of retrotrapezoid nucleus neurons (Phox2b mice, hereafter designated "mutants").Methods: All mice received intraperitoneal ketamine doses ranging from 100 mg/kg at postnatal day (P) 8 to 250 mg/kg at P60 to P62. Anesthesia effects in P8 and P14 to P16 mice were then analyzed by administering propofol (100 and 150 mg/kg at P8 and P14 to P16, respectively) and fentanyl at an anesthetic dose (1 mg/kg at P8 and P14 to P16). Conclusions: Ketamine, propofol, and fentanyl caused death by respiratory arrest in most mice with selective loss of retrotrapezoid nucleus neurons, in doses that were safe in their wild type littermates. The retrotrapezoid nucleus is critical to sustain breathing during deep anesthesia and may prove to be a pharmacologic target for this purpose.

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