Defective respiratory rhythmogenesis and loss of central chemosensitivity in Phox2b mutants targeting retrotrapezoid nucleus neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 47, 2009, Pages 14836-14846

  Dubreuil, Véronique ^a,b   Thoby Brisson, Muriel ^b   Rallu, Murielle ^a,b,e   Persson, Karin ^b,d   Pattyn, Alexandre ^a,b,f   Birchmeier, Carmen ^c   Brunet, Jean François ^a,b   Fortin, Gilles ^b   Goridis, Christo ^a,b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e SANOFI   (France)

^f INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PHOX2B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BREATHING RATE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; GENE MUTATION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PH; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RETROTRAPEZOID NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NERVE NET; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHRENIC NERVE; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY CENTER; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 72449196663     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2623-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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