Upper airway extraluminal tissue pressure fluctuations during breathing in rabbits

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1560-1566

  Kairaitis, Kristina ^a,b,c   Parikh, Radha ^b   Stavrinou, Rosie ^b   Garlick, Sarah ^b   Kirkness, Jason P ^a,b   Wheatley, John R ^a,b   Amis, Terence C ^a,b  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Head and neck flexion; Hyperpnea; Resistive breathing

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD POSITION; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; STIMULATION; TIDAL VOLUME; TISSUE PRESSURE; TOPOGRAPHY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

EID: 0141790405     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00432.2003     Document Type: Article

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