Learning to breathe: Control of the inspiratory-expiratory phase transition shifts from sensory- to central-dominated during postnatal development in rats

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 4931-4948

  Dutschmann, Mathias ^a,c   Mörschel, Michael ^b,c   Rybak, Ilya A ^d   Dick, Thomas E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HERING BREUER REFLEX; HISTOLOGY; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LUNG INFLATION; LUNG VOLUME; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SYNAPSE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; BREATHING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; OSMOLARITY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHASE TRANSITION; RESPIRATORY EXCRETION; STEREOTYPY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIDAL VOLUME;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANIMALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXHALATION; INHALATION; LEARNING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHRENIC NERVE; RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 70350685774     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.174599     Document Type: Article

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