Differential effects of low-intensity motor cortical stimulation on the inspiratory activity in scalene muscles during voluntary and involuntary breathing

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 265-271

  Petersen, Nicolas C ^b   Taylor, Janet L ^a   Murray, Nicholas P S ^a   Gandevia, Simon C ^a   Butler, Jane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breathing; Low intensity TMS; Motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; BREATHING MUSCLE; BREATHING REFLEX; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERCAPNIA; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALENE MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOCAPNIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RESPIRATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79251609804     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

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