Age and sex differences in the ventilatory response to hypoxia and hypercapnia in awake neonatal, pre-pubertal and young adult rats

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-87

  Holley, Heidi S ^a   Behan, Mary ^a   Wenninger, Julie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; JUVENILE; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOXIA; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HYPERCAPNIA; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 83555176308     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: 18781519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2011.10.012     Document Type: Article

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