Ventilatory responses to acute and chronic hypoxia in mice: effects of dopamine D(2) receptors.

We used genetically engineered D(2) receptor-deficient [D(2)-(-/-)] and wild-type [D(2)-(+/+)] mice to test the hypothesis that dopamine D(2) receptors modulate the ventilatory response to acute hypoxia [hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR)] and hypercapnia [hypercapnic ventilatory response (HCVR)] and time-dependent changes in ventilation during chronic hypoxia. HVR was independent of gender in D(2)-(+/+) mice and significantly greater in D(2)-(-/-) than in D(2)-(+/+) female mice. HCVR was significantly greater in female D(2)-(+/+) mice than in male D(2)-(+/+) and was greater in D(2)-(-/-) male mice than in D(2)-(+/+) male mice. Exposure to hypoxia for 2-8 days was studied in male mice only. D(2)-(+/+) mice showed time-dependent increases in "baseline" ventilation (inspired PO(2) = 214 Torr) and hypoxic stimulated ventilation (inspired PO(2) = 70 Torr) after 8 days of acclimatization to hypoxia, but D(2)-(-/-) mice did not. Hence, dopamine D(2) receptors modulate the acute HVR and HCVR in mice in a gender-specific manner and contribute to time-dependent changes in ventilation and the acute HVR during acclimatization to hypoxia.

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