Pressure-volume behaviour of the rat upper airway: Effects of tongue muscle activation

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 548, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 563-568

  Bailey, E Fiona ^a   Fregosi, Ralph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY CONSTRICTION; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TONGUE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; AIRWAY STIFFNESS; ANIMAL TISSUE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS;

AIR PRESSURE; ANIMALS; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TONGUE; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0038745493     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.029298     Document Type: Article

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