Vagal nerve activity contributes to improve the efficiency of pulmonary gas exchange in hypoxic humans

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 935-941

  Ito, Shoji ^a   Sasano, Hiroshi ^a   Sasano, Nobuko ^a   Hayano, Junichiro ^a   Fisher, Joseph A ^b   Katsuya, Hirotada ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE;

ADULT; ANALYZER; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CALCULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DEAD SPACE; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGENATION; PARAMETER; RR INTERVAL; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; TIDAL VOLUME; VAGUS NERVE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 33747592127     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2006.034421     Document Type: Article

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