Abstract
Extrapulmonary elastances were added to normal subjects, and to dogs before and after vagotomy. The respiratory rate and depth were determined before, and while breathing against the added extrapulmonary elastances, with and without restoration of the functional residual capacity to precompression levels. The respiratory rate increased and the tidal volume decreased when the extrapulmonary elastance was added, even when the original lung volume was maintained. These findings and the elucidation of similar changes after vagotomy in the animals suggests that some of the information affecting respiratory rate and depth arises outside the lungs in the “chest wall”.
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