Pathophysiology of human ventilatory control: Number 6 in the series "physiology in respiratory medicine"

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 495-512

  Dempsey, Jerome A ^a   Smith, Curtis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; BREATHING; CAROTID BODY CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGENITAL CENTRAL HYPOVENTILATION SYNDROME; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEART DENERVATION; HUMAN; HYPERINFLATION; HYPERPNEA; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; INTERNEURON; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHRENIC NERVE; PLASTICITY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; CAROTID BODY; CAT; CHEMISTRY; CHEMORECEPTOR CELL; EXERCISE; HEART FAILURE; LUNG DISEASE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CAROTID BODY; CATS; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; EXERCISE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATION; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84905650624     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00048514     Document Type: Review

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