Bötzinger expiratory-augmenting neurons and the parafacial respiratory group

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2506-2515

  Fortuna, Michal G ^a   West, Gavin H ^a   Stornetta, Ruth L ^a   Guyenet, Patrice G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Breathing; Central chemoreceptors; Hypoxia; Medulla oblongata; Parafacial respiratory group; Retrotrapezoid nucleus

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE TRANSPORTER 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING; CELL POPULATION; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ANIMAL; CELL HYPOXIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXHALATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATION CENTER; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL HYPOXIA; EXHALATION; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATORY CENTER;

EID: 40449096896     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5595-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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