Change in network connectivity during fictive-gasping generation in hypoxia: Prevention by a metabolic intermediate

The neuronal circuit in charge of generating the respiratory rhythms, localized in the pre-Bötzinger complex (preBötC), is configured to produce fictive-eupnea during normoxia and reconfigures to produce fictive-gasping during hypoxic conditions in vitro. The mechanisms involved in such reconfigurat...

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Main Authors: Andrés eNieto-Posadas, Ernesto eFlores-Martínez, Jonathan-Julio eLorea-Hernández, Ana-Julia eRivera-Angulo, Jesús ePérez-Ortega, José eBargas, Fernando ePeña-Ortega
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2014.00265/full