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Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 162, Number 3, September 2000, 1140-1147

N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Expression in the Nucleus Tractus Solitarii and Maturation of Hypoxic Ventilatory Response in the Rat

PATRICIA J. OHTAKE, NARONG SIMAKAJORNBOON, MATTHEW D. FEHNIGER, YING-DAN XUE, and DAVID GOZAL

Department of Physical Therapy, Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York; and Departments of Pediatrics and Physiology and Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana

Ventilatory responses to hypoxia are critically dependent on the activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptors in adult rats. To investigate the role of NMDA receptors during development, we measured minute ventilation (V E) in 5-d, 10-d, and 15-d-old intact, freely behaving rat pups, using whole-body plethy-smography during breathing of room air (RA), during hypoxia (10% O2), and during hypercapnia (5% CO2), both before and after administration of the NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801 (1 mg/kg intraperitoneally). MK-801 did not affect V E in RA in the younger animals, but increased both V E and respiratory frequency in the 15-d- old rats. Similarly, V E responses to hypoxia were unchanged from control values in young animals, whereas V E respones in 15-d-old rats showed significant attenuation under hypoxic conditions. In contrast, hypercapnic ventilatory responses were not altered by administration of MK-801 to rats at any age. To further examine the topographic distribution patterns of NMDA receptor-positive neurons in the caudal brainstem and their recruitment during hypoxia, we performed immunostaining for NMDA receptor subunit NR1 and c-fos after exposing rat pups at postnatal ages of 2 d, 5 d, 10 d, and 20 d and adult rats to either RA or 10% O2 for 3 h. With advancing postnatal age, NR1 expression increased in the nucleus tractus solitarii (nTS), whereas it decreased in the hypoglossal nucleus. Hypoxic exposure was associated with increased c-fos expression in the nTS at all postnatal ages, with a marked increase occurring in >=  10-d-old animals. Similarly, the density of c-fos-NR1 double-labeled neurons during hypoxia progressively increased with maturation. We conclude that NMDA glutamate receptor expression in the caudal brainstem undergoes postnatal maturation that closely parallels the development of the hypoxic ventilatory response in the rat.




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