Discharge patterns of Botzinger complex neurons during cough in the cat

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 4 43-4, 1998, Pages

  Bongianni, Fulvia ^a   Mutolo, Donatella ^a   Fontana, Giovanni A ^a   Pantaleo, Tito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airway defensive reflexes; Control of breathing; Expiratory neurons; Respiration; Retrofacial nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; ABDOMEN; ANIMAL; BREATHING; BRONCHUS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHRENIC NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; STIMULATION; TRACHEA;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; BRONCHI; CATS; COUGH; FEMALE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURONS; PHRENIC NERVE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFLEX; RESPIRATION; TRACHEA;

EID: 0032044108     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.274.4.r1015     Document Type: Article

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