Respiratory long-term facilitation: Too much or too little of a good thing?

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 605, Issue , 2008, Pages 224-227

  Mahamed, Safraaz ^a   Mitchell, Gordon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; FACILITATION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHRENIC NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHRENIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 38449109952     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73693-8_39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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