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Investigating the complexity of respiratory patterns during the laryngeal chemoreflex

BACKGROUND: The laryngeal chemoreflex exists in infants as a primary sensory mechanism for defending the airway from the aspiration of liquids. Previous studies have hypothesized that prolonged apnea associated with this reflex may be life threatening and might be a cause of sudden infant death synd...

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Autores principales: Dragomir, Andrei, Akay, Yasemin, Curran, Aidan K, Akay, Metin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2467426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18570656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-0003-5-17