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Long-term deprivation of substance P in PPT-A mutant mice alters the anoxic response of the isolated respiratory network.
Journal of neurophysiology - 1 Jul 2002
Telgkamp Petra, Cao Yuqing Q, Basbaum Allan I, Ramirez Jan-Marino
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to elucidate the role of the neuromodulator substance P and its related tachykinin neurokinin A (NKA) in the homeostasis of respiratory activity. Respiratory activities, in form of fictive eupneic and sigh activities, were recorded extracellularly from the preBötzinger complex (PBC) in normoxic and anoxic conditions using medullary slice preparations. The effect of a blockade of...
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