Respiratory pattern formation in the isolated bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) brainstem-spinal cord
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Respiratory pattern formation in the isolated bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) brainstem-spinal cord.
This study characterizes various patterns of motor output obtained from cranial nerves V, VII, X, and XII of in vitro, saline-perfused, brainstem-spinal cord preparations of the American bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana). Motor output indicative of fictive breathing was present in all preparations. In 17 of 26 preparations, fictive breaths were either evenly spaced or randomly distributed, while in t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiration Physiology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0034-5687
DOI: 10.1016/s0034-5687(98)00091-7