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The Effect of Body Position on Esophageal Reflexes in Cats: A Possible Mechanism of SIDS?

BACKGROUND: It has been hypothesized that life threatening events are caused by supra-esophageal reflux (SER) of gastric contents which activates laryngeal chemoreflex-stimulated apnea. Placing infants supine decreases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The aim of this study was to det...

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Autores principales: Lang, Ivan M., Medda, Bidyut K., Shaker, Reza, Jadcherla, Sudarshan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5902647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29166377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/pr.2017.302