Intermittent hypoxia reduces upper airway stability in lean but not obese Zucker rats

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Ray, Andrew D ^a,b   Magalang, Ulysses J ^b,c   Michlin, Charles P ^a   Ogasa, Toshiyuki ^b   Krasney, John A ^b   Gosselin, Luc E ^a   Farkas, Gaspar A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Genioglossus; Obesity; Sleep apnea

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; OXYGEN;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; HYPOXIA; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LUNG COLLAPSE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHARYNX; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TENSION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; ZUCKER RAT;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; OBESITY; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

EID: 34447617503     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00038.2007     Document Type: Article

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