Respiratory motor recovery after unilateral spinal cord injury: Eliminating crossed phrenic activity decreases tidal volume and increases contralateral respiratory motor output

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2494-2501

  Golder, Francis J ^a,c   Fuller, David D ^c   Davenport, Paul W ^a   Johnson, Richard D ^a   Reier, Paul J ^b   Bolser, Donald C ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Breathing; Hemisection; Hypercapnia; Hypoxia; Plasticity; Rats; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BREATHING; BREATHING MECHANICS; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; TIDAL VOLUME; VAGOTOMY;

EID: 0037444447     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-06-02494.2003     Document Type: Article

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