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Record Nr.

UNINA9910642641403321

Titolo

Breathing: Hering-Breuer Centenary Symposium [[electronic resource] ] : a Ciba Foundation symposium / / edited by Ruth Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : J. & A. Churchill, 1970

ISBN

0-470-71535-9

0-470-71504-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium

Altri autori (Persone)

PorterRuth

Disciplina

612.2

612/.2

Soggetti

Respiration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Breathing: Hering-Breuer Centenary Symposium; Contents; Chairman's opening remarks; About Hering and Breuer; The role of vagal inflation reflexes in man and other animals; Pattern of breathing during hypercapnia before and after vagal blockade in man; Discussion; Neural control of respiration; The mechanism of excitation of type J receptors, and the J reflex; Discussion; Epithelial irritant receptors in the lungs; Discussion; Sensory innervation of the airways; Discussion; General discussion; How respiratory rhythm originates: evidence from discharge patterns of brainstem respiratory neurones

DiscussionNeurological integration of behavioural and metabolic control of breathing; Discussion; Patterns of motor activity in breathing in response to varying sensory inputs; Discussion; General discussion; The sense of effort; Discussion; The role of afferent impulses from the lung and chest wall in respiratory control and sensation; Discussion; Effect of selective peripheral nerve blocks on respiratory sensations; Discussion; Some psychological and physiological considerations of breathlessness; Discussion; General discussion; Respiratory sensation in pulmonary disease; Discussion

Breathing frequency and tidal volume: relationship to breathIessnessDiscussion; Experimental results of vagal block in cardiopulmonary disease; Discussion; Group discussion; Chairman's closing remarks; Appendix: Translations of the two publications by



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