Annals ofMedical Physiology

Volume: 4 - Number: 28 - April 15, 2004

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Closer to the edge? Contractions, pressures, waterfalls and blood flow to contracting skeletal muscle

Physiological characterization of variability in response to lung volume reduction surgery

Footstrike is the major cause of hemolysis during running

Effects of obstructive sleep apnea on circulating ICAM-1, IL-8, and MCP-2

Acute stress-and potentiation of innate immunity

Role of extracellular HSP72 in acute stress-induced potentiation of innate immunity in active rats

Blood flow to contracting skeletal muscle

Closer to the edge? Contractions, pressures, waterfalls and blood flow to contracting skeletal muscle

Burn hipermetabolism

In vivo rabbit hindquarter model for assessment of regional burn hypermetabolism

Carotid body denervation eliminates apnea response

Carotid body denervation eliminates apnea in response to transient hypocapnia

Cause of hemolysis during running

Footstrike is the major cause of hemolysis during running

Effects of obstructive sleep apnea

Effects of obstructive sleep apnea on circulating ICAM-1, IL-8, and MCP-2

Exercise causes a tissue-specific change of NO

Exercise causes a tissue-specific change of NO production in the kidney and lung

Exercise physiology

Increased wheel-running activity in the genetically skeletal muscle fast-twitch fiber-dominant rats

Facilitation in humans during NREM sleep

Determinants of long-term facilitation in humans during NREM sleep

Fhrenic nerve afferents

Activation of thalamic ventroposteriolateral neurons by phrenic nerve afferents in cats and rats

Fictive cough

Medullary raphe neuron activity is altered during fictive cough in the decerebrate cat

hChronic mountain sickness

Autonomic cardiovascular function in high-altitude Andean natives with chronic mountain sickness

Hyperthyroidism and energy expenditure

Effect of hyperthyroidism on spontaneous physical activity and energy expenditure in rats

Hypoxic and hypercapnic and air hunger in humans

Hypoxic and hypercapnic drives to breathe generate equivalent levels of air hunger in humans

Microgravity on arterial nitric oxide synthase

Effects of simulated microgravity on arterial nitric oxide synthase and nitrate and nitrite content

Middle ear pressure

Middle ear pressure change during controlled breathing with gas mixtures containing nitrous oxide

Muscle exercise

Changes in muscle activation can prolong the endurance time of a submaximal isometric contraction in humans

Neuromucular stimulation

Laryngeal elevation achieved by neuromuscular stimulation at rest

Nitric Oxide

Modeling of impact of gas molecular diffusion on nitric oxide expired profile

Normal men and women measured with proportional-assist ventilation

Respiratory system loop gain in normal men and women measured with proportional-assist ventilation

Phrenic physiology of sleep apnea

Discriminative power of phrenic twitch-induced dynamic response for diagnosis of sleep apnea during wakefulness

Prolonged running exercise

Mechanisms contributing to knee extensor strength loss after prolonged running exercise

Pulmonary physiology

Tidal volume single-breath washin of SF6 and CH4 in transient microgravity

Reflexively evoked contractions

Expression of the bilateral deficit during reflexively evoked contractions

Response to lung volume reduction surgery

Physiological characterization of variability in response to lung volume reduction surgery

Rhythmic tetanic skeletal muscle contractions

Effect of rhythmic tetanic skeletal muscle contractions on peak muscle perfusion

Testosterone women during NREM sleep

Effect of testosterone on the apneic threshold in women during NREM sleep

Thermally induced asthma

Desiccation and hypertonicity of the airway surface fluid and thermally induced asthma

Unfatigued and fatigued human adductor pollicis muscle

Shortening-induced depression of voluntary force in unfatigued and fatigued human adductor pollicis muscle