Looking for inspiration: New perspectives on respiratory rhythm

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 232-242

  Feldman, Jack L ^a   Del Negro, Christopher A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING PATTERN; CELL DEATH; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OSCILLATOR; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY CENTER; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33644558047     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1871     Document Type: Review

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