Coordinated Respiratory Motor Activity in Nerves Innervating the Upper Airway Muscles in Rats.

Maintaining the patency of the upper airway during breathing is of vital importance. The activity of various muscles is related to the patency of the upper airway. In the present study, we examined the respiratory motor activity in the efferent nerves innervating the upper airway muscles to determin...

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Main Authors: Satoshi Tachikawa, Kiyomi Nakayama, Shiro Nakamura, Ayako Mochizuki, Takehiko Iijima, Tomio Inoue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5104329?pdf=render