Breathing dysfunctions associated with impaired control of postinspiratory activity in Mecp2-/y knockout mice

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 579, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 863-876

  Stettner, Georg M ^a   Huppke, Peter ^a,b   Brendel, Cornelia ^a   Richter, Diethelm W ^a,b   Gärtner, Jutta ^a,b   Dutschmann, Mathias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APNEA; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; BREATHING PATTERN; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LARYNX MUSCLE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RETT SYNDROME; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SPEECH DISORDER; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; BRADYPNEA; BREATHING RATE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXPIRATORY FLOW; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; KOLLIKER FUSE NUCLEUS; MECP2 GENE; RESPIRATORY BURST; TACHYPNEA; VAGUS TONE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXHALATION; GENOTYPE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INHALATION; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROINJECTIONS; PHENOTYPE; PONS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETT SYNDROME; VAGUS NERVE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 33947145165     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.119966     Document Type: Article

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