Advances in our understanding of brain mechanisms for the hypoxic ventilatory response,
coordinated changes in blood pressure, and the long-term consequences of chronic …

Cough is a very important airway protective reflex. Cough-related inputs are conveyed to the
caudal nucleus tractus solitarii (cNTS) that projects to the brainstem respiratory network. The …

Airway protections is the prevention and/or removal of material by behaviors such as cough
and swallow. We hypothesized these behaviors are coordinated to respond to aspiration …

We have addressed the hypothesis that the opposing effects of bronchopulmonary C-fiber
activation on cough are attributable to the activation of C-fiber subtypes. Coughing was …

Respiratory modulation seen in the sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) implies that the
respiratory and sympathetic networks interact. During hypertension elicited by chronic …

The dorsal medulla encompassing the nucleus of the tractus solitarius (NTS) and
surrounding reticular formation (RF) has an important role in processing sensory information …

Highlights•Chronic cough is now regarded as part of a cough hypersensitivity
syndrome.•Afferent signals in brain nuclei may be amplified by neuropathic inflammation.•N …

It has been shown that muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) located within the
caudal nucleus tractus solitarii (cNTS) mediate a cholinergic inhibitory control mechanism of …

Data-driven computational neural network models have been used to study mechanisms for
generating the motor patterns for breathing and breathing related behaviors such as …

Neural activity generally displays irregular firing patterns even in circuits with apparently
regular outputs, such as motor pattern generators, in which the output frequency fluctuates …