REM sleep-like episodes of motoneuronal depression and respiratory rate increase are triggered by pontine carbachol microinjections in in situ perfused rat brainstem preparation

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 548-555

  Brandes, Ivo F ^a   Stettner, Georg M ^b   Mörschel, Michael ^c   Kubin, Leszek ^d   Dutschmann, Mathias ^e  

^a Department of Anaesthesiology Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CARBACHOL;

ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING RATE; FEMALE; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLE; PHRENIC NERVE; RAT; REM SLEEP; RESPIRATION CONTROL; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 79954615134     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2010.056242     Document Type: Article

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