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Background

In adults with serious respiratory illness, breathlessness is prevalent and associated with reduced health-related quality of life. The aim of this review was to assess the impact of breathing techniques on breathlessness in adults with serious respiratory illness.

BACKGROUND:Beneficial effects of breathing at FIO2 < 0.21 on disease outcomes have been reported in previous preclinical and clinical studies. However, the safety and intra-hospital feasibility of breathing hypoxic gas for 5 d have not been established. In this study, we examined the physiologic effects of breathing a gas mixture with FIO2 as low as 0.11 in 5 healthy volunteers.METHODS:All 5 subjects completed the study, spending 5 consecutive days in a hypoxic tent, where the ambient oxygen level was lowered in a stepwise manner over 5 d, from FIO2 of 0.16 on the first day to FIO2 of 0.11 on the fifth day of the study. All the subjects returned to an environment at room air on the sixth day. The subjects' SpO2, heart rate, and breathing frequency were continuously recorded, along with daily blood sampling, neurologic evaluations, transthoracic echocardiography, and mental status assessments.RESULTS:Breathing hypoxia concentration dependently caused profound physiologic changes, including decreased SpO2 and increased heart rate. At FIO2 of 0.14, the mean SpO2 was 92%; at FIO2 of 0.13, the mean SpO2 was 93%; at FIO2 of 0.12, the mean SpO2 was 88%; at FIO2 of 0.11, the mean SpO2 was 85%; and, finally, at an FIO2 of 0.21, the mean SpO2 was 98%. These changes were accompanied by increased erythropoietin levels and reticulocyte counts in blood. All 5 subjects concluded the study with no adverse events. No subjects exhibited signs of mental status changes or pulmonary hypertension.CONCLUSIONS:Results of the current physiologic study suggests that, within a hospital setting, delivering FIO2 as low as 0.11 is feasible and safe in healthy subjects, and provides the foundation for future studies in which therapeutic effects of hypoxia breathing are tested.

End-to-end RNA-sequencing methods that capture 5'-sequence content without cumbersome library manipulations are of great interest, particularly for analysis of long RNAs. While template-switching methods have been developed for RNA sequencing by distributive short-read RTs, such as the MMLV RTs used in SMART-Seq methods, they have not been adapted to leverage the power of ultraprocessive RTs, such as those derived from group II introns. To facilitate this transition, we dissected the individual processes that guide the enzymatic specificity and efficiency of the multistep template-switching reaction carried out by RTs, in this case, by MarathonRT. Remarkably, this is the first study of its kind, for any RT. First, we characterized the nucleotide specificity of nontemplated addition (NTA) reaction that occurs when the RT extends past the RNA 5'-terminus. We then evaluated the binding specificity of specialized template-switching oligonucleotides, optimizing their sequences and chemical properties to guide efficient template-switching reaction. Having dissected and optimized these individual steps, we then unified them into a procedure for performing RNA sequencing with MarathonRT enzymes, using a well-characterized RNA reference set. The resulting reads span a six-log range in transcript concentration and accurately represent the input RNA identities in both length and composition. We also performed RNA-seq from total human RNA and poly(A)-enriched RNA, with short- and long-read sequencing demonstrating that MarathonRT enhances the discovery of unseen RNA molecules by conventional RT. Altogether, we have generated a new pipeline for rapid, accurate sequencing of complex RNA libraries containing mixtures of long RNA transcripts.

The orexigenic gut peptide ghrelin is an endogenous ligand for the growth hormone secretagogue receptor type 1a (GHSR1a). Systemic ghrelin administration has previously been shown to increase gastric motility and emptying. While these effects are known to be mediated by the vagus nerve, the cellular mechanism underlying these effects remains unclear. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the signaling mechanism by which GHSR1a inhibits voltage-gated Ca²⁺ channels in isolated rat gastric vagal afferent neurons using whole-cell patch-clamp electrophysiology. The ghrelin pharmacological profile indicated that Ca²⁺ currents were inhibited with a log (Ic₅₀) = –2.10 ± 0.44 and a maximal inhibition of 42.8 ± 5.0%. Exposure to the GHSR1a receptor antagonist (D-Lys3)-GHRP-6 reduced ghrelin-mediated Ca²⁺ channel inhibition (29.4 ± 16.7% vs. 1.9 ± 2.5%, n = 6, P = 0.0064). Interestingly, we observed that activation of GHSR1a inhibited Ca²⁺ currents through both voltage-dependent and voltage-independent pathways. We also treated the gastric neurons with either pertussis toxin (PTX) or YM-254890 to examine whether the Ca²⁺ current inhibition was mediated by the Gα_i/o or Gα_q/11 family of subunits. Treatment with both PTX (Ca²⁺ current inhibition = 15.7 ± 10.6%, n = 8, P = 0.0327) and YM-254890 (15.2 ± 11.9%, n = 8, P = 0.0269) blocked ghrelin’s effects on Ca²⁺ currents, as compared with control neurons (34.3 ± 18.9%, n = 8). These results indicate GHSR1a can couple to both Gα_i/o and Gα_q/11 in gastric vagal afferent neurons. Overall, our findings suggest GHSR1a-mediated inhibition of Ca²⁺ currents occurs through two distinct pathways, offering necessary insights into the cellular mechanisms underlying ghrelin’s regulation of gastric vagal afferents.