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Thyrotropin-releasing hormone causes neurobehavioral arousal and stimulates breathing in adult, newborn, and preterm experimental animals. Its effects on behavioral state, breathing, blood pressure, and heart rate were studied in the chronically instrumented late term fetal lamb. Fetal intravenous administration of thyrotropin-releasing hormone resulted in behavioral arousal with electrocortical desynchronization, increased body and eye movements, rapid and deep breathing movements, and a transient bradycardia followed by prolonged tachycardia, associated with an increase in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. The effects were similar following intracisternal administration of thyrotropin-releasing hormone. The effects of thyrotropin-releasing hormone on behavior, but not breathing, was abolished in the presence of muscarinic blockade. Thyrotropin-releasing hormone may play a role in the modulation of central regulation of cardiovascular, respiratory, and behavioral activity in the fetus.
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