Respiratory control and sternohyoid muscle structure and function in aged male rats: Decreased susceptibility to chronic intermittent hypoxia

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 180, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 175-182

  Skelly, J Richard ^a   Edge, Deirdre ^a   Shortt, Christine M ^a   Jones, James F X ^a   Bradford, Aidan ^b   O'Halloran, Ken D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Control of breathing; Fibre type; Hypoxia; Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome; Sternohyoid muscle

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDURANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NONHUMAN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATION CONTROL; STERNOHYOID MUSCLE; STRESS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; WISTAR RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HEART; HEMATOCRIT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; ORGAN SIZE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, WHOLE BODY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 84856488653     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: 18781519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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